Herman’s Hideaway, celebrating its 29th anniversary next month, recently received some upgrades, including a new dance floor, new LED lighting system, a disco ball and a new Soundcraft Series Two soundboard, which soundman Danny Giltinan has been putting to good use. The men’s bathroom was also remodeled. Page down for…
Although Primus was last in Denver only back in August, opening for the Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, the San Francisco band and ’90s radio staple took top billing for two nights in Denver this week at the Ogden Theatre. See photos from the show below…
Update (10/19): Ah, yes. That explains it. According to Chris K., host of Colorado Sound and longtime friend of Backbeat, evidently, Colorado Rocks!: Five Decades of Rock Music History, is out of print, thus the hefty price tag we spied at the Goodwill over the weekend. “I had to buy…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is struggling: it’s over $1 million short on cash; its musicians are seeing massive pay cuts; and twenty of its board members (read: big donors) have left. The CSO cut five programs, which totaled ten shows, from now through early-December and brought back old personnel to…
The Photo Atlas has been hard at work on a new record. While there’s been a few EPs released since then, this untitled effort is slated to be the band’s first full-length since 2007’s No, Not Me, Never on Stolen Transmission. The album isn’t finished yet and won’t be released…
After hearing two choruses of Charlie Christian’s solo on Benny Goodman’s “Grand Slam” in a record store, a thirteen-year old Jim Hall had a spiritual awakening of sorts. “That’s what I wanted to do,” Hall, now eighty, says about first hearing the song. “It was such a perfect solo —…
The space at 1434 Blake Street that was home to the legendary City Spirit in the ’90s has seen plenty of turnover in the past decade: from Andrew’s Pub & Lounge to Lure Lounge to SportsBook to Pre-Game Sports Bar, which lasted for only a few months before closing last…
Guitarist Paul Christus and drummer Tony Corona should be given some kind of medal for weathering numerous lineup changes over the years and sticking to their guns. With their long-running band, all capitals, these two guys have rearranged the roster more times than Spinal Tap, but they’ve never given up…
Anders Trentemøller has been turning the electronic-music world on its head since 1997, when he made his debut with DJ T.O.M. as Trigbag, the first live house act in Denmark. After a self-imposed hiatus of several years, he re-entered the fray and has since released music to wide critical acclaim…
Spencer Krug is probably best known to the world as a former member of Montreal’s Wolf Parade. Since that band took a break, Krug has been prolific, to say the very least. In addition to having been a member Frog Eyes, he’s currently still a member of Sunset Rubdown and…
Sweden’s Opeth started out as a fairly straightahead death-metal band, but in 1992, after drastic lineup changes, the band, led by singer and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, slowly developed the sound it would bring to its 1995 debut, Orchid. Sonically, Opeth recalls ’70s art-rock bands like Jethro Tull mixed with late-’80s…
The fraught waters of “world music” have dashed many a well-intentioned album upon the rocks of pandering contrivance and misguided condescension. But that’s never been the case for Paul Simon. Over the course of his nearly six-decade career, Simon has never shied from appropriating ethnic textures and rhythms for songs…
If there’s any universal truth we can draw from the horror of World War II, it’s that Hitler was a real asshole. In the history of real-life villains, really, there’s probably none more villainous than der Führer, the very epitome of evil — and therefore a referential touchstone for every…
The songs on this album conjure the sensation of something unexpected in the weather — unseasonably cold nights in summer or uncommonly warm nights in winter — that makes the mind both nostalgic and able to function with the kind of clarity that makes subtleties easier to notice. Joshua Trinidad’s…
Together for over a decade now, Barstool Messiah shows no signs of letting up on its fourth effort, Bastards of Bacchus. Taking a few cues from the MC5, these revved-up garage-rockers even kick out a killer take of that group’s “Rock Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa).” As…
On Imanster, Iman S’s latest mixtape, the rapper mates superb production with subpar lyrics. On “Quagmire,” a throw to a super-horny character from Family Guy, when Iman brags about how many hos he fucks and the swagger that he uses to convince the women he beds, the metaphors feel forced…
Leave it to a South American record label to release a comprehensive double-album retrospective of this influential local death/grind metal band. Beginning with releases dating back to 2002, this compilation showcases the band from all angles, from its gritty and savage attack on organized religion on songs like “Jesus Is…
Ivan Moody may live in Vegas these days, but Denver will always be the place he considers home. Before moving to L.A. and fronting Motograter and then Five Finger Death Punch, Moody grew up here. At one time or another, he was a student at Alameda and Chatfield high schools…
As you should all know by now, P.U.N.C.H.I.S. has been bringing the best underground techno to Beta’s Beatport Lounge every Friday, and this week’s show will be no exception: The Missing Link is headlining, and he’ll no doubt be serving up glitchy techno to keep the dance floor moving. The…
Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom has been undergoing many changes in the past few months, including relocating the sound booth to the floor, expanding the stage, adding more lighting fixtures and, most recently, replacing the flooring in the balcony with industrial rubber matting and removing the benches that previously lined the walls…
ROGER DALTREY at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/16/11Shortly after Roger Daltrey belted out the last note during his full performance of the Who’s 1969 album Tommy in Broomfield last night, the legendary frontman summed up the record’s significance. “I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did … It is…
The second night of Sonic Blossom opened with a lecture from Jamie Janover on tetrahedrons, crop circles, and basic unified field theory discussion. Kraddy headlined the Ballroom while locals Project Aspect, Samples, and Eminence Ensemble closed down the Otherside. Click through to see some images of the night…
