Duncan Barlow (far left) and d.biddle. If you happen to run into Duncan Barlow around town this week, be sure to congratulate him on his new gig. Next Monday, the d.biddle frontman and Lion Sized bassist will be picking up stakes and heading to Jacksonville, Florida, where he’s accepted a…
Photo: G.Wigler U2’s breakthrough June 1983 performance at Red Rocks, captured on the band’s Live at Red Rocks and Under a Blood Red Sky, is slated to be released on DVD on Tuesday, September 30. The disc will include five previously unreleased songs and a director’s commentary, all presented in…
Teeth Mountain,Christian Meth, GDFX, Hunter Dragon and Spellcaster Sunday, August 10, 2008 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: Ending the summer dreading homework. Christian Meth, a duo featuring Jacob from Sterile Garden doing tape loops, sampling and vocal manipulation through pedals and John Krueger playing what looked like a large didgeridoo through a…
Blue Million Miles, Overcasters, Bad Luck City Saturday, August 9, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: The line-up for the average CD release show. For whatever reason, a lot of CD release shows include one band of the same or higher status than the band releasing the album and one of lower…
Yuzo Nieto and the Hand that Rocks the Dreidel, Oblio Duo, the Archers, Hunter Dragon and Fridge Magnet Friday, August 8, 2008 Old Curtis St. Better Than: Getting beer spattered on me at another show. Unfortunately, by the time I made it to Old Curtis St., Tom Ventura (ex-bass player…
Who: Young Coyotes Dossier: Zach Tipton formed Young Coyotes with Adam Halferty (the Axe That Chopped the Cherry Tree and the Chain Gang of 1974) after Tipton’s previous band, Moros Eros, who was signed to Victory Records, folded this past spring. Formerly based in Marietta, Georgia, Tipton reportedly moved to…
Call me daddy. No, really. Here’s a convenient and useful guide to all the wonderful content you might have missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were reeling from the shock and disbelief of discovering that Clay Aiken, of American Idol fame, has somehow managed to spawn, and is…
It’s almost quitin’ time. What are you doing tonight? If it doesn’t involve pounding beers at the Bluebird with your friends until you’re Otis-drunk and seeing the most badass rock show of the year, cancel your plans right now! Seriously. Tonight, the venerable rock and roll warlords known as Machine…
Locals Only Julox has one of the most recognizable voices in the Colorado hip-hop scene, and he’s actually one of the hardest working emcees here as well. Since the release of his album Catfishm Shrimp, -n- French Fries in January, the rapper has dropped a group project called “Dirty Ridin’”…
Let’s be honest: Most records are painfully self-aware pieces of trash. They’re uninspired, navel-gazing, banal, cliche-ridden, ego-stroking buckets of awful. Yes, occasionally you run across a record that is utterly brilliant. But most sound mediocre-to-good-enough for a few days until our eye catches a shiny object across the room and…
Action Packed Thrill Ride, Sofo, Chuck P and Antz, Mon Marie Thursday, August 7, 2008 Lion’s Lair, Denver The Lion’s Lair can be an interesting place to be any night of the week at pretty much any hour. And by “interesting,” I mean in that Chinese curse kind of way…
The Roland TR-808 Drum Machine is a legendary piece of musical gear, instrumental in the formation of several styles of music including rap and techno. It’s best known for its impossibly low, deep kick, snappy snare and obnoxious cowbell sounds, but all of its sounds are near iconic. Ironically, the…
We just got word that Jakob Dylan canceled his Rocky Mountain Folks Fest appearance, but the good news is that John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will be flying in for a rare solo set on Sunday, August 17. KT Tunstall, Missy Higgins, Stephen Kellogg, Amos Lee, Patty Griffin, Nanci…
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…
Abracastabya Wednesday, August 6, 2008 The Black Sheep, Colorado Springs Better Than: Melissa Bays leaving town without being sent off properly. Everyone who has been to the Black Sheep in at least the past year or so knows Melissa Bays — even if they don’t know her name. She was…
See a slideshow at westword.com/slideshow. Witchcraft, Dead Child, Kingdom Of Magic Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Marquis Theater Better than: Whatever passes for OzzFest these days. The cyclical nature of music has, by this point, become unsurprising. What was once edgy and rebellious eventually becomes comodified, then loses it’s luster and…
Alkaline Trio, Agony & Irony (Epic). Matt Skiba was once told he had two to three years before his voice would be completely gone, thanks to acid reflux. With the amount of apathy he shows on his band’s latest album, long-time fans may wish it was. This release may not be…
Those familiar with Yuzo Nieto’s other projects won’t be expecting his music with Yuzo Nieto and the Hand That Rocks the Dreidel (due this Friday, August 8 at Old Curtis Street). It’s definitely not the wildly experimental free jazz of Pink Hawks or the earnest, visionary folk of Pee Pee…
Canadian-born, London-based DJ Heidi helps run Phonica, one of the most important record stores in London, so it’s no surprise that she has a knack for picking out absolutely killer tracks. She works in the realm of minimal house and techno, where hypnotic, dubby basslines push the tracks along, bathed…
Do you remember when people used to say that Denver was a sports town, that music here was an afterthought and that’s all it ever would be? Yeah, me too. It was a popular argument five years ago. Things have obviously changed since then. At Mile High Music Festival last…
No one would blame John Baldwin Gourley if he never listened to oldies again. That’s all the frontman of Portugal. The Man listened to when he was growing up — at least until he was old enough to drive himself. Despite this over-saturation, the classics stuck with Gourley. And last…
3OH!3 is a group you either love or loathe. Judging from the response the act has gotten both here and across the country, most listeners land comfortably in the former category. Stuffy literary types who blanch at the simplistic synth lines, rudimentary beats and admittedly crass lyrics are missing the…
