There’s some properly huge news to break on the concert scene this week (if you’ve not already heard), and this is it: the last-ever iteration of the Underground Music Showcase is happening THIS WEEKEND all around south Broadway from Friday until Sunday! Ending its 25-year run on the highest of notes, they’ve got acts like Old Man Saxon, El Ten Eleven, DeVotchKa, FIDLAR, The Photo Atlas, May Be Fern spread across 4 stages and 12 total venues. The swan song of UMS isn’t one to skip over, so pick up those passes and get out to some of the best music you’ll get to see all year!
Never fear! If you aren’t able to make it to UMS, we’ve got some bangin’ shows happening in Denver that you’ll still be able to get on out to. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has returned to town to bless us with the rowdiest of rock n’ roll shows at the Bluebird Theater on 7/24, and none other than local rippers Shady Oaks will be shredding the stage to get things popping off early—this will be a proper hoe-down throwdown.
The dynamic duo known as Break Science are coming to Meow Wolf on 7/25 to provide their unique blend of MF Doom and A Tribe Called Quest with their new Doom Tribe set, blending beats and instrumentals from both hip-hop phenoms into one incredible set of music. Casual Commander and Eliptek will be bringing the funk early, so you can’t go wrong getting your whole Friday night on at the Perplexiplex this weekend.
All the other shows this week are below—as always, stay in the know about Denver’s music scene with yours truly at 303 Magazine!
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Ball Arena
7/25—Jason Aldean
7/28—Disney Descendants/Zombies
The Black Box
7/24—Levitation Jones B2B Lemondoza with JuJu Beats, Baron and NDO
7/25—Abstrakt Sonance with Packet Loss, Flora.noise, Dub Den Showcase and Collective Unity 002
7/26—11th Hour with OldGold and Lita Lotus
7/29—Venture 5 with Sleepless Sounds, Poe V and soma
The Black Box Lounge
7/24—DJ Nitrogen with DJ Julian Black
7/25—Abstrakt Sonance with Packet Loss, Flora.noise, Dub Den Showcase and Collective Unity 002
7/26—Grow Room Monthly Showcase
The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues
7/25—Aaron Wolf with Mighty Mystic and Red Sage
7/26—Sarah & The Safe Word with Crow Cavalier and Everybody’s Worried About Owen
The Bluebird Theater
7/24—The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band with Shady Oaks
7/25—Gilligan Moss with Bad Tuner and Weselects
7/26—Savannah Dexter with Brabo Gator and Denham
7/27—Jonah Kagen with Chance Emerson
Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom
7/25—Sabin Rai & The Pharaoh
7/26—Ahee with Evalution, Wiley and Koy
Cervantes’ Other Side
7/23—Sematary with Ghost Mountain, Hackle and Anvil
7/24—Paul McDonald & The Mourning Doves with Electric Juice Box
7/26—Penelope Road with The Takes
7/27—Penelope Road with The Takes
The Church
7/24—Superave. with Veil
7/25—Hot Since 82
7/26—Latin Night
Club Vinyl
7/25—Maya Jane Coles
7/25—Drum n’ Bass Ops: Bensley
7/25—Latin Night
7/26—Deeper Purpose with Torren Foot and Dreya V
7/26—AK Sports
7/26—Truncate
7/26—INTL
Dazzle
7/23—Jenna McLean
7/25—Ken Walker Sextet
7/25—Piano Lounge: Enion Pelta & Victor Mestas
7/26—Lionel Young Band with Erica Brown
7/26—Piano Lounge: sus2
7/27—Dotsero
7/28—DMJ
7/28—Blowing Loud Jam Sessions
Globe Hall
7/24—Brendan Walter with Ronjo V and Jenna North
7/25—Mr. Woodman with Hard 45 and In Plain Air
7/26—Old Mervs with The Dirty Turkeys
7/27—Room by Room with Five Minutes Out, Theater and Strawberry Milk
Goosetown Tavern
7/25—Dance Myth with Derek Zanetti and Seth Slay
7/26—Nineteen Minutes Later with OverGiver and 1000 Times
The Gothic Theatre
7/26—Of Montreal
The Grizzly Rose
7/26—Pecos & The Rooftops
Herb’s
7/23—Hump Day Funk Jam
7/24—Dave Randon Trio
7/25—Funkiphino
7/26—Dance Machine
7/27—Supersonic Band
7/28—Monday Night Jazz
7/29—B3 Jazz Jam
Hi-Dive
7/24—Supreme Joy with Flutter, Team Nonexistent and Sun Swept
7/24—Underground Music Showcase
7/25—Underground Music Showcase
7/26—Underground Music Showcase
7/28—40 WATT SUN with Serpentent and George Cessna
7/29—Sculpture Club with Flesh Tape and French Kettle Station
Larimer Lounge
7/24—The Broken Skyline with Owtlet, Eunoia and Nuera
7/24—Blossm with DNTNO and skippy vonn
7/25—Indigo with Pet Falcon and Exhaler
7/25—Maro with Almodovar, DJ Sauce and Darth
7/25—Galo with Bodega Cats, Sonrizas and Unmute
7/26—Yung Bae with Pure Colors
7/26—Paradime and Friends with Kinetic Noise
7/26—Lady Arys with Veytik, Tasba and Elliss DJ
7/27—Arts Fishing Club with The Drawn Out and Joey Brodnax
Lost Lake
7/24—Gold Celeste with Vinyl Williams and Snowflyer
7/25—Scowl with Glixen and Public Opinion
7/26—Mustard Service with Strawberry Milk Cult and Porch Cut
7/27—Matt Heckler Joe’s Truck Stop and Sirona Isle
Marquis Theater
7/23—Harbour
7/24—Harbour
7/25—Black Map
7/26—Keep Flying
7/28—Midrift
Meow Wolf
7/25—Break Science with Casual Commander and Eliptek
7/26—School of Rock
Mission Ballroom
7/26—The Dillinger Escape Plan with Converge, Sanguisugabogg, Khemmis and Suicide Cages
Nocturne
7/23—The Matthew Fuller Quartet
7/24—The Wil Swindler Quartet
7/25—The Matt Smiley Quartet
7/26—The Derek Banach Quintet
7/27—Drew’s Blues & Boogaloos
The Ogden Theatre
7/26—Getter with Nimda and Black Carl!
7/27—Power Trip with Gatecreeper, Castle Rat, 200 Stab Wounds and Nailed Shut Ma
7/29—Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue
The Oriental Theater
7/25—VOODOO
7/26—Emo Night Brooklyn
7/29—Powerman 5000
Red Rocks
7/23—Something Corporate with Jack’s Mannequin and Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
7/24—Cake
7/25—Indigo Girls with Melissa Etheridge
7/26—Cody Jinks
7/27—Beck
7/28—Killer Queen
7/29—Bailey Zimmerman
Roxy Broadway
7/24—WØLPH
7/25—Mad Dog Blues Duo
7/25—QRBD
7/26—Casino Perosi
7/26—GenXtra
Roxy Theatre
7/25—Salvatore!
7/26—Chicano Allstarz
Skylark Lounge
7/25—Mose Wilson with Chelsey Webb and Panhandle
7/24—Satellite Friend with Toucon and Kollin K
7/25—Underground Music Showcase
7/26—Underground Music Showcase
7/27—Underground Music Showcase
Summit
7/24—Spike and the Gimme Gimmes
7/25—Bashfortheworld
7/26—Rio Da Yung OG
Temple
7/25—Henry Fong
7/25—Chocolate Drop & Friends
7/26—Moore & Kismet
