Eyehategod (due Sunday, January 26, at the Bluebird Theater) formed in New Orleans in 1988. The influential band combined its influences from the world of the blues, Black Sabbath and hardcore punk into a unique alchemy that lent itself well to dipping into the dark side of the psyche and…
As Bisco Inferno looms ahead of us this weekend, we had a chance to speak with Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein about what it takes to make a happy life and a happy band. Full of enthusiasm and positivity. Brownstein shed a new light on the future of the Biscuits…
There is the best of this, the best of that, and then you have the metaliest metal bands forged by lyrical blacksmiths deep down in the mines of heavy metal. The metaliest, you know, metal. Not as in the genre-est of metal, but the bands that sing of metal the…
Legions of angry parents were already up in arms when gangster rap arrived on the scene. After the 1985 PMRC Senate hearings helped institute “Parental Advisory” stickers, albums by Ice-T and N.W.A. were among the first to be branded. Since then, rap as a musical form has continued to take…
Andy Rourke (due at Lipgloss this Friday, January 24, at Beauty Bar) came to the attention of the world as the gifted bass player of the Smiths. Alongside drummer Mike Joyce, Rourke, with his eclectic and creative style, provided a subtle but unmistakable backbone to Johnny Marr’s inspired jangle and…
Musa Bailey has been a fixture in the Colorado music community for over a decade, from releasing music to promoting shows to his success with Cold Crush. For his latest release, How to Survive When You’re Dead, the followup to My Robot Girlfriend, he embraced his Colorado roots by making…
When Esme Patterson was learning to play Townes Van Zandt’s song “Loretta,” she says she started singing the words and got angry. “I started thinking about how one-sided and subjective a lot of ‘love songs’ are, and how a lot of women immortalized in songs might tell a different side…
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word — with a Colorado bucket list of the 100 things to do before you kick it. Here is the complete 2014 Backbeat bucket list. See also:…
John Doe (due this weekend at Lion’s Lair) is most well-known for his tenure in the influential punk/roots rock band X. That band was known not just for a fiery intensity as a live act but also for its combination of primal rock and roll and thought-provoking lyrics, which had…
What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and over the next week, we’ll be rolling out the answers across our blogs. Check back on tomorrow for the full list — and in the meantime, feel…
It’s been ten years since Yellowcard (due on Tuesday, January 21, at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs, and Wednesday, January 22, at the Aggie Theater in Fort Collins) and released Ocean Avenue, and while jumping on the Anniversary tour train, the Florida-bred pop punkers decided to do things a…
I’m a huge Lil B fan. Now I wouldn’t call myself a Stan — although that would probably be entirely accurate — but that’s only because I don’t reference my love for Lil B in the context of other rappers’ songs. That would be an affront to The BasedGod. Lil…
Back with another fresh batch of local hip-hop. This week, we’ve got a little something for everybody; whether you dig the old-school vibe of the Soul Pros, the futuristic sounds of Aires Jackson or something more reflective of this era, we think you’ll come away satisfied. Along with cuts from…
Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck and legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea teamed up in 2007 for The Enchantment, an album of duets, but the two have been playing on each other’s projects going back to Fleck’s 1995 album, Tales From the Acoustic Planet, and Fleck appeared on Corea’s Rendezvous in New…
Atomga (due this Saturday, January 18, at Cervantes’ Other Side) was founded by three friends who shared a mutual love of Afrobeat. Early on, Atomga expanded to its current size of eleven members, and although the outfit has released live recordings in the past, it is finally releasing its debut…
Since 2000, RJD2 (aka RJ Krohn) has been creating anthemic hip-hop tracks. Live, the turntablist dominates four decks while seamlessly mixing classic songs in with his own original beats. In the studio, RJD2 is continuously working to progress his sound, from laboring over honing the brass sections to finding just…
Tristan Shone was a mechanical engineer before he formed Author & Punisher (due this Wednesday, January 15, at Summit Music Hall). His first album, 2005’s The Painted Army, hinted at the sound Shone would later hone five years later on Drone Machines in 2010, after having fully integrated various MIDI…
A couple months ago, our sister paper LA Weekly published a piece entitled “It’s Crunch Time for Nipsey Hussle.” In it, writer Justin Tinsley examined the 28 year-old LA rapper’s career, and how he believed it had come close to a stall. Barely three months later, and already Nipsey Hussle…
If you’re a Hawkwind fan, we’ve got a good news/bad news scenario for you: The good news is we’ve got a great interview with Dave Brock in which he talks about Lemmy. The bad news is that we did the interview in anticipation of the band’s upcoming show at the…
Back again with a fresh batch of local hip-hop, the first crop of 2014. This installment of That’s a Rap is dominated by club anthems set on partying up for the new year: Capo Coleone starts off with a big house party, G-Slick offers interesting production on a new cut…
While MCs like Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and Chance the Rapper are running the game right now — and will likely continue to do so until the next batch of hungry rappers rises up to give them a run — there are a number of MCs who are poised to grab…
Kris Barman was one of the founding members of Innerpartysystem. Before that band split, Barman had already done some program-ming and synthesizer work on his own. On one tour, in fact, he even gave pointers to Sonny “Skrillex” Moore, when the EDM superstar was getting his start in that style…
