Concert Previews

The Still Tide ebbs and flows in sound and personality.

A dream come true.

After moving several times and a very bad bicycle accident, Denver native Patrick McGuire is back with his hazy new dream-pop act, Straight White Teeth.

Denver-based hard-rock band MF Ruckus is about to release the first part of The Front Lines of Good Times, a twelve-part graphic novel and album. Working with comic artist and illustrator Josh Finley, MF Ruckus vocalist Aaron Howell tells the story of a plucky band of musicians and adventurers, who come to be known as, well, MF Ruckus, struggling to survive in a futuristic setting, dogged by the repressive forces of the New Order of Fundamentalist Utilitarian Nationalists (NOFUN for short).

For the last thirty-three years, the L.A.-based/Montesano, Washington-spawned band the Melvins has consistently found new ways to keep its music interesting for itself and fans while maintaining a coherent sound and an unpredictable, quality live show that has made the group among the most influential active rock bands today.

The Violent Femmes may be best known for college and mainstream radio hits like “Blister in the Sun,” “Add It Up,” and “American Music.” But at heart, the act is fundamentally experimental.

Modern English is best known for its hit single “I Melt With You,” from the 1982 album After the Snow. The song was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV and served as an anthem for those struggling to find joy and hope in the dismal age of Thatcher and Reagan.

A group of near-strangers formed the punk band Rotten Reputation in January 2016 after a mutual friend had posted on social media about the lack of women in bands in Denver’s music scene.

Denver based rock trio Down Time is releasing its debut EP, Good Luck!, on GROUPHUG. The five-song offering has its origins in songs singer/guitarist Alyssa Maunders was writing while she was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Colorado band BANDITS, which will be releasing its latest 7-inch record at Lost Lake on July 1, is teasing the show with a new music video for the song “Enough.”

When Teri Gender Bender – the charismatic front-person and guitarist for the Mexican band with a semi-French name, Le Butcherettes – was born in Denver in 1989, the city still had a small-town vibe.

To record the six songs that comprise Sliver’s new EP, singer Chris Mercer overcame a lifetime of obstacles.

The new Com Truise album Iteration, due out June 16, marks the conclusion of a loosely science-fiction themed trilogy that began with the project’s 2011 debut Galactic Melt. Without lyrics, the themes may not be as obvious, but song titles like “Ether Drift,” “Dreambender” and “Ephemeron” conjure visions of a retro-futurist aesthetic embodied by films like Blade Runner and the more recent Beyond the Black Rainbow.

Simon Green, the brains behind Bonobo, grew up in Brighton, England, playing piano. He picked up guitar in his teens, but soon ditched it for electronic music, preferring the portability of electronics and how they allowed him to create on his own schedule without having to rely on a full band.

Acid Mothers Temple has performed in various incarnations since it formed in 1995 and is touring now as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO. At its core, AMT is a psychedelic rock band informed by noise, the avant-garde, prog rock and jazz. Its shows are mind-altering experiences embodying what the best psychedelic rock does.

Teacup Gorilla may not be prolific, but it’s never afraid to take risks.

Los Angeles-based soul and psychedelia band Chicano Batman is touring in support of its 2017 album Freedom Is Free.

As a kid, Bison Bone’s Courtney Whitehead would leave the radio on all night long and wake up in the middle of the night listening to the more adventurous end of country music programming.

Noisy, experimental rock band Creepoid and its brethren in psychedelic sounds Ecstatic Vision are touring the U.S. this spring, and Thursday, March 23, will stop at Denver’s hi-dive.