The Flobots are finally home this week but they’re not arriving quietly. Along with their New Year’s Eve show at the Gothic Theatre, which benefits Flobots.org, the band will be hanging out with more than 100 people from Fight With Tools street teams from across the country at the first…
Reverend Peyton will be a guest DJ tonight at Larimer Lounge as part of Matt Fecher’s New Music Mondays. We’re guessing that the Rev might be spinning some of his favorite bluesmen who inspired the singer/guitarist like Charley Patton, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House and Big Bill Broonzy…
This weekend I stumbled across this story about the convergence of video games and music in our sister paper the Phoenix New Times, and really enjoyed it. I’m quite pleased that two of my great loves — video games and music — are coming together in so many ways, both underground…
DJ Bedz has been the official DJ for the Denver Nuggets for five seasons now, and if you’ve been to a game at the Pepsi Center, you know he keeps the place rockin’. But apparently the folks at ESPN magazine suggested that the Nuggets “trade up” to get DJ Clue…
Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that’s true. (Katy Perry, Danity…
Friday night’s Living Room Series singer-songwriter lineup at the Meadowlark – which read like a who’s who of Denver musicians – drew a predictably seam-bursting crowd to the intimate venue. Of course, had everyone on the bill simply brought a couple of friends, the bar would have easily been at capacity and the showcase would have had the usual mutual admiration society vibe. This, perhaps, was part of the problem.
Let’s hope your Christmas was better than this. Here’s you guide to all the great content on Backbeat Online you might have missed this week while you were busy getting trampled by crazed shoppers at Walmart, heavily drinking or wishing you didn’t have to hang with the in-laws…
On Saturday, December 27, you can catch up on Denver house-music history when the Denver House Authority brings back the entire Casa Del Soul group — Sense, Foxx, Catt, Ty Tek, Little Mike and Wyatt Earp — for a party at Below Bar (1422 Larimer Street). These guys promoted and played…
On the third day of an alcohol, caffeine, fat and sugar binge in the name of the winter solstice and some folks’ savior, I’m feeling lethargic, unhealthy, dirty and startlingly unattractive. This is the stuff New Year’s resolutions are made of. All I want to do is eat raw foods, spend four hours in the gym and try to save my internal organs from becoming completely enrobed in a protective layer of sweet, fatty tissue. In spite of all that, I’m going tonight. And you probably should too.
The Jewell Tyme Music family put out a nice collection of releases this year, but one of the most robust projects was the compilation album Music, Money, and Roundtables, which features the entire Jewell Tyme roster and then some.The album is at your local indie stores now, but in case you’re…
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008’s been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or…
Let’s face it. It’s a holiday and most of us are too busy either celebrating Christmas or pointedly ignoring it to spend much time reading music blogs. However, for those of you who are still making out on Christmas, I have a little something special for you.
As I compiled this year’s edition of Nationalistic, I was struck by how diverse our Backbeat scribes’ tastes were in 2008. Unlike with Moovers & Shakers, the roundup of our favorite local albums of the year that ran in last week’s issue, there was hardly any crossover. Not even with…
Whenever I get near Appaloosa Grill (535 16th Street), I think about the time my cousin and I tried to go there on New Year’s Eve. It was about an hour before midnight, and the place was packed. We waited in line for a few minutes, and then the bouncer…
On this fine Christmas Eve, I gift all of you with a link to the finest Christmas song ever recorded, and the only one anyone ever truly needed. It’s a song about the brutal, cold reality behind all of our romantic pretension, and about love that still manages to hang…
DJ Bedz, of 107.1 FM and the Denver Nuggets, announced that he has partnered with Safehouse Denver and 100 percent of the profits from the sale of his mixtapes at Independent Records will go towards the organization. Safehouse Denver is an organization that gives services to women, children and youth…
I finally stopped by my post office box yesterday to pick up the mail that has accumulated over several days. Normally, I cruise by on my way to or from the day job and things don’t pile up. Life, however, has been a bit abnormal lately, so I haven’t been able to get in there, and it just hasn’t seemed that pressing. After all, in the era of online socializing, I rarely get any personal mail, so that’s not a motivator. Most of my bills come to me via email, so I don’t need to worry about those. I occasionally get a new movie from Netflix or a check from a freelance client, but those aren’t enough to excite me. Tonight, however, when I opened up my post office box, I saw the things that energize and enliven me: CDs.
The Pirate Signal recently got off a national tour with 3OH!3 and most of the feedback the duo is getting from their live set include everything from “passionate” to “hyper”. That’s the great thing about Colorado hip-hop going on tour, seeing how other cities react to the music. But in…
This year, we’ve wrapped our roundup of holiday albums a bit differently. Instead of delivering it to you in one big lump (like coal), we’re parceling out the reviews online, with a blog each weekday through December 24 devoted to recordings in a different category. This year’s last installment unwraps…
KUVO/89.3 FM has faced its share of financial challenges over the past few years, which Michael Roberts pointed out in “Changes in the Air at KUVO.” The station’s CEO, Gene Craven, sent out an e-mail today stating that longtime jazz DJs Ed Danielson and Rodney Franks will lose their daytime…
Fresh from producing the excellent Whygee and Sunkenstate project, Suicide Watch, producer Kid Hum (also known as DJ Dylon on Basementalism) goes off on his own with a solo project. He’s currently offering his instrumental album, Fossil Fuel, for free download, and trust me, this is something you don’t want…
Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. It’s time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As…
