Backbeat is counting down the twenty most fabled moments in Denver music history. Today: A look back at when Pantera played at Mammoth Events Center in the mid ’90s and fans took their fury out on the venue. See Also: – Vinnie Paul on Rebel Meets Rebel – Losing Dimebag…
See Also: – The ballet changed everything for Paper Bird – With its bewitching old-timey-roots sound, Paper Bird is a species to behold – Harpoontang combines Paper Bird, Laura Goldhamer and Kitty Crimes for raunchy fun After the Beatles broke up, George Harrison explained to Dick Cavett that there just…
See Also: – Review: Florence + the Machine at Red Rocks, 7/25/12 – The Walkmen at Wells Fargo Theatre with Florence + the Machine, 7/26/12 The Walkmen’s first album, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, came out ten years and two months before its latest — and perhaps…
See Also: Justin Martin at City Hall, 7/27/12 If you haven’t heard of Justin Martin yet, consider yourself on alert: The scene veteran and Dirtybird artist has long been a favorite of those in the know for his impeccable selection and ability to transcend electronic-music genres, but he’s about to…
See Also: Damned, Damned, Damned turns 35 Lester Bangs died 30 years ago today It was 45 years ago today . . . The Beatles Sgt. Pepper nears the half century mark The Smiths Louder than Bombs turns 25 today In the early 1970s, a bespectacled English waif named Declan…
See Also: Ghost of Glaciers at the Mouth House, 7/20/12 Ghosts of Glaciers has played a lot more shows than most bands in the two years since forming. Because the metal group’s sound isn’t just rooted in that style exclusively, the trio has been able to appeal to a wider…
Shabazz Palaces is the brain child of Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire. The two met in Seattle when Butler moved back from New York after his stint in the critically acclaimed, jazz inflected hip-hop group Digable Planets. While the Planets have occasionally played since splitting in the mid-’90s, Butler has…
See Also: – Remembering Randy Rhodes thirty years after his tragic death -The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper turns 45 -The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street turns 40 -Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced turns 45 In the early 1980s, a red-haired, Midwestern boy named William Bailey stepped off a bus in…
See Also: Tonight: Wymond Miles at the hi-dive Wymond Miles is better known to the rest of the world for his scintillating guitar work in the San Francisco psych-garage pop band, the Fresh & Onlys. But Miles grew up in Aurora, and during the second half of the ’90s and…
See Also: – Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys at Red Rocks, 7/18/12 – The Rebirth of Emmylou Harris – The Fray Scars & Stories: A track-by-track breakdown from Isaac Slade and Joe King Since first performing with Gram Parsons in Boulder in the early ’70s (and getting fired),…
See Also: Maudlin Magpie at Unit E, Saturday, July 14 Maudlin Magpie started out as the solo project of Jason Horodyski, but after two shows, Horodyski realized he preferred to make music with other people. The band went through different line-ups before settling with its current incarnation. What didn’t change,…
See Also: Lower Dens at Larimer Lounge – Tuesday, July 10 There’s something both unnatural and superhuman about the new Lower Dens album, Nootropics. True to the Baltimore quintet’s Facebook bio, which reads only “dark nerds,” the band delved deep into social, moral and technological issues on its latest through…
See Also: Meet Extra Kool, the Creature From the Whack Lagoon Dirty Laboratory MC Extra Kool just dropped a new video for his tune “Is Anybody Thirsty?” The clip spills enough fake blood to make you forget the bucket scene from Carrie. With some help of shlock-horror experts from Troma,…
If you’re one of those folks who thinks electronic music is made by people lacking the manual dexterity to play “real” instruments, then Amor, Est. would like to prove you wrong. The local producer, born Steele Kempton, has a dozen years of classical guitar training, but preferred the expansive possibilities…
See Also: Sunday: Anthrax at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Joey Belladonna talks about Married…With Children and rejoining the band Scott Ian on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who and interviewing Ozzy Photos: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/19/11 Review: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/18/10 Slipknot’s Clown on the time he…
See Also: Tonight: Porter Robinson at the Boulder Theater Tomorrow: Porter Robinson at the Ogden Theatre Porter Robinson started making electronic music at the age of thirteen using Sony ACID Pro, but he didn’t perform his music live in front of an audience until a handful of years later. Since…
See Also: Tonight: Peter Black at the Meadowlark Peter Black (aka Peter Gurule) first gained renown as a DJ as part of the long-running and legendary club night, So What! Since then, he’s made a name for himself not just as a skilled DJ in a very real sense of…
See Also: – Tonight: Jason Anderson at the hi-dive – The members of Holophrase on working with Ikey Owens on Horizons of Expectation Jason Anderson’s startlingly unvarnished yet well-crafted songs and his intimate and charismatic performance style evoke the sense of a compassionate and unpretentious friend offering nuggets of wisdom…
See Also: Tonight: Youth Lagoon at the Bluebird The best SXSW music 2012 The worst SXSW music 2012 Youth Lagoon (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) began as the solo project of Trevor Powers, who first started making music while still in high school, and whose early recordings caught the…
See Also: Tonight: Holophrase CD release at the hi-dive The Mars Volta’s Ikey Owens stretches his wings in Free Moral Agents Rubedo on recording its new album, Massa Confusa, with Ikey Owens Holophrase got its name for the technical term for the sounds infants use to communicate verbally before learning…
See Also: Sunday: Slipknot at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Photos: Umasking Corey Taylor of Slipknot Photos: Women that rock at Mayhem Photos: Mayhem Fest 2011 Photos: Mayhem Fest 2010 Formed in 1994 by late bassist Paul Gray and M. Shawn Crahan (aka Clown, aka #6), Slipknot (due this Sunday, July 8…
While Squeeze (due at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July 4) has had a few hiatuses in its almost forty year history, singer and guitarist Glenn Tilbrook says the band sounds more energized these days — so energized, in fact, that the group has even started work on…
