​See also: "Awesome God," Tim Tebow, awesomely bad singer

It's all Tebow, all the time here in Denver. Just in case you haven't grown tired of the wall-to-wall Tebow coverage, here's yet another piece devoted to the Denver Broncos QB, whose renown is steadily reaching mythical proportions. This one's from ESPN, and it began airing earlier this week.

If you haven't seen it yet, it's a short, four-and-a-half-minute-long piece called Tebow Through the Years, and it features "Heatbeat," the Fray's new single, as the soundtrack for the montage, along with frontman Isaac Slade providing the voiceover. "Denver, baby," says Slade, explaining how he became involved. "Small town." Slade filmed the segment at the Hudson Hotel in New York recently at the behest of ESPN producers. Page down to have a look.

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​Word on the street is the suits over at 30 Rock will now be censoring Questlove of the almighty Roots over that whole lyin' ass bitch incident with Michelle Bachmann, in which Questo subversively played the intro of Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch" as the Republican presidential candidate made her entrance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Apparently, Questlove must now reportedly clear his song choices with three different NBC executives. We're calling bullshit, NBC.

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Welcome to Memory Lane Monday, our latest feature in which we hop into the Hot Tub Time Machine and spotlight a band from the bursting annals of bygone Denver music. This week: Lionize, a band we used to catch once upon a time when we were underage at Sonesta in Thornton.

​In the hedonistic heyday of the mid- to late '80s, West Hollywood might have been more than a thousand miles away, but you would've never known it if you spent your nights letting your hair down on the tiny stretch of Glendale that housed clubs like Bangles. Dudes teased their hair just as high and wore their pants just as tight as the ladies who lusted after them. Denver had no shortage of hard-rock bands channeling the glitz and glamour of the Sunset Strip. Lionize was just one of those bands. The dudes all got back together for a reunion show last year at Eck's. They all look dramatically different now, of course, but here's how they looked back then.

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​As if we don't have enough to be thankful for already being blessed to live here in God's country, the land of eternal sunshine and medicinal mary jane, here's something else to give thanks for this week. This Thursday, Open Air 1340 AM, the freshly minted Colorado Public Radio station on the AM dial, will be playing local music exclusively all day long. And from the sounds of it, from the time the Colorado-centric playlist begins at 6 a.m. until it winds down at 8 p.m., we can expect to hear a broad range of tunes from everyone from Nathaniel Rateliff to Glenn Miller.

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Courtesy of the FBI

​If you consider the Sharks and the Jets to be gangs in the same way the Bloods and the Crips fit that selective bill, you might also be willing to consider juggalos one. The FBI does, at least: According to the bureau's most recent National Gang Threat Assessment, the face-painted fans of ICP are both down with the clown and down with "gang-like behavior," "criminal activity" and even, no whoop whoop here, "violence."

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​Songwriters, like many creative types, often need to embark on challenges they create for themselves. Singer Jenna Herbst, for instance, has challenged herself to write, record and distribute a song a week for the next two months. The songs, which will be sent out via an email list will be voted on by fans with an end goal of picking which tracks will be recorded by her band, the Juniper Trees.

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​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 a used copy via amazon this year, and it cost me a lot more than $25.00," he informs us. "Used copies in mint condition do go for over $100." Indeed. A closer look reveals that the book is NOT actually available in paperback at BN.com for $24 as initially claimed, but rather used copies are posted for $110. Needless to say, if you have a copy hold on to it. That collectors item tag is legit.

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Catch the Narrators on the first Wednesday of every month at Paris on the Platte

​The last time we checked in with the Narrators storytelling series, it was making its debut as a place for people of all shapes and sizes to tell their stories. This month the series attracted quite a compelling bunch, including Gothic Theater GM Kent Shelton, Jim Norris of 3 Kings Tavern, former Twist and Shout buyer Dawn Greaney, Jody Pilmer of Everything Absent or Distorted, and it was guest-hosted by Pilmer's former bandmate, Robert Rutherford -- and you can hear it all on the show's new podcast.

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​Kickstarter may very well be the best invention aiding music makers everywhere since the advent of amplification and, uh, electricity. While the notion of appealing directly to fans to help underwrite recording efforts strikes some as distasteful or even shamelessly opportunistic, these sorts of endeavors have, for the most part, proven to be incredibly successful (see Choke the Word).

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​There is a point at which, I think, we all start to discover music on our own. I was around twelve or thirteen when the shift from pre-teen radio sex jams to discovering albums I would fawn over (and eventually learn to play) occurred. Up to then, I was listening to music that I loved, but it wasn't always mine.

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