HEALTH, Spellcaster’s Rock and Roll Time Travel Committee, Pictureplane, BDRMPPL, the Late Severa Wires, the Don’ts and Be Carefuls Monday, July 14, 2008 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: Music that pretends to be wild but really isn’t. Greeley’s the Don’ts and Be Carefuls seem to embody a similar artistic outlook as its…
Charlie Hunter Trio & the Nels Cline Singers Saturday, July 12, 2008 Bluebird Theater Better Than: Any other bill with two guitarists that’s come through town in the past year years. I used to see the Charlie Hunter Trio a lot in the mid-‘90s when I lived in the Bay…
Film School, Moonspeed and Ascaris Sunday, July 13, 2008 Larimer Lounge Better Than: Having to catch the next Moonspeed show at Red Rocks, where most of the crowd won’t appreciate the music. The sound at the Larimer Lounge didn’t do the band as much justice as its previous gig. The…
Nashville Pussy w/Black Lamb Saturday, July 12, 2008 Larimer Lounge Better Than: The latest generation of neo-Southern rock bands. Click here for a slide show. I missed Holly 750 thanks to the naked bike ride demonstration going on downtown. That’s the kind of stuff you can’t make up. Not that…
Fucking Orane, Madraso Friday, July 11, 2008 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Another doomy, sludgy, wannabe experimental heavy rock show. Because there was some issue with a couple of touring bands getting to the venue late (I think one of them ultimately did turn up), the show started a little…
Fans of Supergrass (pictured) and Year Long Disaster will reap an unexpected benefit from the postponement of the Foo Fighters’ July 14 and 15 Red Rocks shows (click here for those details). While Dave Grohl is too sick to perform on those dates, the aforementioned bands, who are opening for…
I, for one, was looking forward to the Foo Fighters’ Monday, July 13 gig at Red Rocks — the first of two nights at the venue. But I’ll just have to put my enthusiasm on hold for a couple of months. Moments ago, a press release came through announcing that…
Girl Talk, teamAWESOME Friday, July 11 2008 Fox Theatre Better Than: Keeping some of the best moments of pop music to yourself Whether up on the highly prized stage next to Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, or down in the filled-to-bursting pit, last night’s show epitomized the sweaty catharsis that…
Here’s an index to all the great content you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy gaping in sheer disbelief at the ridiculous prices Beatles memorabilia was demanding at auction…..
When I was a little kid, my two older brothers were both privates in the KISS ARMY. (Did that mean they kissed privates?)…
Regardless of taste or aspiration, great artists are bound to fail every now and again. And as they fail, we all sit back idly, wishing it wouldn’t have happened, but slightly elevated by the fact they did – “ah yes,” we think, “they are humans, too.” But great artists rarely…
The Ideal Fathers, I’m a Boy, the Bluebird Equation Thursday, July 10, 2008 Larimer Lounge Better Than: A totally random assortment of indie bands on the average Thursday night at the Larimer Lounge. The Bluebird Equation had already started by the time I made it to the Larimer but it…
It’s yet another sad day for the Denver music scene. A little more than a week after reporting on Johnny Schou’s tragic, untimely death, we’ve received word that Paul Stitt, the former frontman of Angellic Rage (pictured above, center), was shot and killed in a bungled robbery attempt in Las…
Coldplay had cold game last week. Say what you will about Chris Martin and company, but from a commercial standpoint, you can’t knock the hustle. Still putting asses in the seats, the outfit was Twist & Shout’s best seller last week. 1. Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And…
My daughter looks nothing like me. When I look in the mirror, I see the Jewish-Italian pan-European mongrel that I am. Her mother – with her olive skin and thick black hair – looks vaguely Latina, or like she was born somewhere overlooking the Mediterranean. But our three-year-old daughter looks…
On this week’s Spiral, the fellas catch up with poet extraordinarie Charly “City Mouse” Fasano and Vincent, his talented illustrator brother, and get a crash course on the taxonomy of a “Chad,” find out about Charlie’s latest books, Snitches Get Stitches and Taking the Workhorse to the Glue Factory, his…
Following an August 2005 concert at Denver’s Botanic Gardens, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn was shot in the head in an attempted carjacking. Almost three years later, on Friday, July 11, he returns to the venue to perform on a bill that also features Aimee Mann — a gig that will…
CacheFlowe setting the pace (Photos by Jon Solomon). Ulrich Schnauss, A Shoreline Dream, Iuengliss, Cacheflow Wednesday, July 9, 2008 The Falcon Better Than: Chilling at the bowling alley on a Wednesday I’d never been to the Falcon before, but last night’s show offered a great opportunity to check it out…
Truth in advertising: Alright Alright. Indeed. (Photos by Tom Murphy). I Was Totally Destroying It, Alright Alright Wednesday, July 9, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: You might expect from a mid-week indie rock show. I missed Hunter Dragon and Fridge Magnet, because, the hi-dive, as it turns out, sometimes, sensibly, starts…
The birth of my youngest child. Witnessing my son and daughter take their very first steps. Hearing them utter their first words. Seeing them off to school on their first day and feeling a dull ache in my stomach, wondering and worrying if they were going to fit in. And…
“We met in a gay bar,” says Martin Schmidt, one-half of experimental electronic duo Matmos, of Drew Daniel, his partner. “Drew was on stage; he was go-go dancing. He was wearing a fish, a plastic fish. I put a dollar in his fish. A guy I was with at the…
Canada’s Leslie Feist, for whom one name has proved more than enough, loves to travel — but after six years of near-constant gigging, even she’s had it. “I think there’s something to be said for everything in moderation, and I haven’t done anything moderately,” she points out. “I’ve just been…
