This Thursday, August 16 marks the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. The iconic singer spent a great deal of time in the Centennial State and had many adventures. In honor of The King, Backbeat is sharing some of these stories all week. See Also: – Jonny Barber brings Elvis…
See Also: – Stone River Boys at Central City Roots Ruckus, 8/11/12 – Stone River Boys at El Diablo’s Rockabilly and Ribs, 8/12/12 Starting in the ’80s, guitarist Dave Gonzalez released a number of albums with the Southern California-based roots rockabilly trio the Paladins before later founding the western soul…
See Also: Angry Hand of God at Bender’s Tavern, 8/2/12 Angry Hand of God started in 2008 as a band inspired by the kind of slow, crushing, psychedelic metal that ran through most of the stoner rock bands at the time. Only this band has really strong riffs that have…
See Also: My Morning Jacket at Red Rocks, 8/3/12 – 8/4/12 Having formed in the late ’90s, Louisville, Kentucky’s My Morning Jacket has continued to evolve over the course of six studio albums. At the same time, the band has managed to hang on to that reverb-drenched magnetism that fueled…
What happens when you mix a podcast conversation about telepathic octopuses with a psychedelic experience on DMT? The answer is Glucose’s jungle-heavy EP, Telepathic Octopus. For electronic music fans of a certain age — those old enough to remember the late ’90s — hearing Glucose’s new EP, Telepathic Octopus, for…
See Also: Aerosmith at the Pepsi Center, 8/1/12 Despite ongoing feuds between frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, Aerosmith has been a vital force in rock music for more than four decades. In the 1970s, the band built a solid fan base on the strength of songs like “Dream…
See Also: – Trace Bundy talks about his unexpected success in South Korea – Heaven Fest quickly growing into a destination festival – HeavenFest’s pure motives Boulder-based guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy has been a YouTube sensation for a few years now with more than twenty million views of his various…
See Also: – Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson flies solo – Amor, Est. goes from classical guitar to digital mayhem – Harpoontang combines Paper Bird, Laura Goldhamer and Kitty Crimes for raunchy fun – Tip Sheet archives A.Poco.Lips (aka Kyle Wilson) is in the midst of a prolific summer of music…
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…
