Sunday | 11.01
What: Everclear – Lucky 7 Tour w/American Hi-Fi
When: 7
Where: The Gothic Theatre
Why: Everclear’s career basically began at the dawn of the alternative rock era in 1992 with the a debut album World of Noise releasing in 1993. That record lived up to its name a bit and was more in line with the punk that lead singer and primary songwriter Art Alexakis came up with. For the follow up Sparkle and Fade (1995) and 1997’s So Much for the Afterglow, Alexakis’ songwriting shifted a little embracing melody and a different kind of hook that not only garnered major label attention but also led to mainstream success on alternative rock and Top 40 radio. What the songwriter didn’t modify so much was his searingly honest lyrics and unique vocal style and even the hit songs put raw emotions and sometimes harrowing stories into homes across the world. After the alternative music wave subsided with the end of the 90s Everclear wasn’t as commercially successful but Alexakis has continued to write honest and provocative music. For this tour the band will perform 7 of the most requested songs in each city as polled from the band’s website.
Monday | 11.02
What: Thee Sinseers w/The Charities https://www.gothictheatre.com/events/detail/?event_id=1438082
When: 7
Where: The Gothic Theatre
Why: Led by multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Joseph Quiñones, East L.A.’s Thee Sinseers perform music in the Chicano soul style fusing soul, R&B and doo wop. But the group has a full brass section as well to infuse its songs with an orchestral pop grandeur. The band’s latest album Love Stories sounds like something that could have come out at the peak of 1960s R&B pre-classic rock era with songs that convey the various facets of love with poetic nuance and both vibrant declarations of such and honoring the more melancholic periods of any relationship that continues to evolve. Sure it’s a bit nostalgic and tapping into a previous era for style but songwriting and presentation matters and sets a band apart as the product of actual humans and Thee Sinseers embrace the analog human experience and haven’t skimped on the quality of what they offer.
Monday | 11.02
What: Periphery w/NE Obliviscaris, Greyhaven and Ando San
When: 5
Where: The Fillmore Auditorium
Why: Periphery is the progressive metal band from DC who are credited with being pioneers of djent. But don’t hold that against them if you’re into the more prog end of modern metal. A Pale White Dot, Periphery’s eighth studio album, was released in May 2026 and it is the first not to have a title that sounds overtly the name of the chapter of a nerdy science fiction series. The album itself isn’t a giant departure from its previous albums though it does in moments come across as more cinematic and atmospheric even amidst more aggressive passages. If the music sometimes also sounds heavier it’s because the group tuned its baritone six strings to F standard, something most bands wouldn’t write around.
Thursday | 11.05
What: dälek w/Moon Pussy and Shocker Mom
When: 7
Where: Hi-Dive
Why: dälek is a hip-hop group that formed in Newark, New Jersey in 1998.When the project got going its broad and deep palette of sounds in the beats was outside the mainstream but well within the realm of hip hop production. The songs had a literary quality to its creative observations and on the debut record Negro Necro Nekros (1998), there was some use of Indian percussion and sitar as well other organic percussion samples that lent the music a hypnotic quality that felt like entering a different kind of reality than most other hip-hop acts were offering. Since then dälek has innovated in its use of samples and live performance while delivering lyrics of great depth and insight into not just personal psychology but the realm of the psychosocial landscape. Its most recent album is 2026’s Brilliance of a Falling Moon, it’s third to be released on Ipecac Recordings. The record continues themes of its recent albums as an exploration of the corrosive effects of corruption and authoritarianism on our everyday lives while bringing to the delivery a personal touch that gives the song an urgency and power. The new record exposes the failings of the culture to address the crumbling of civil society and its connections to underlying power structures used to oppress political and social minorities to benefit the power elite at home and globally. And yet the critique offered by dälek is rooted in a place of love and how that emotion drives us to make life better for ourselves and everyone else. Listening to the album expect passionate vocal delivery, haunted and harrowing atmospheres and bracing sounds that will get into your head and remind you you’re not alone in feeling an inner compulsion to resist fascism and to, perhaps take action on those impulses whether creatively and/or in community engagement.
Friday | 11.06
What: Institute w/The Consequence, Candy Apple, Supreme Joy and Glueman 23rd anniversary
When: 7
Where: Hi-Dive
Why: Austin’s anarcho punk legends Institute headlines this birthday celebration of the Hi-Dive’s 23rd anniversary. But it’s a show packed with punk adjacent greatness with noise punk/post-punk group Candy Apple, literary/subversive post-punk group Supreme Joy and grunge-garage ragers Glueman.
Friday | 11.06
What: L7 w/Nobro
When: 7
Where: The Summit Music Hall
Why: L7 is touring in the wake of the passing of longtime bassist Jennifer Finch and as a farewell to being a live band. You can bet that they’ll bring the same fury, irreverence and borderline scary intensity to the show as always and deliver the songs that eviscerate the terrible people and things of the world and purge the psychic darkness that is forced into your psyche by everyday living in a sexist, racist, imperialist society with Christian nationalists in too many places of power.
Saturday | 11.07
What: Denvoid and the Cowtown Punks Re-Release
When and Where: 1-4PM at Wax Trax and 7-9:30PM at Mutiny Comics & Coffee
Why: The updated re-release of the 2015’s Denvoid and the Cowtown Punks the illustrated oral history and cultural catalog of Colorado’s underground music scene in the realm of punk and adjacent music including 28 new pages spanning the years 1982-1987. The comprehensive tome is a classic of Denver music American cultural history. The event will include live musical performances from Hex Cassette, The Disposable Icons and author Bob Rob Medina’s band Cheap Wigs at Wax Trax and in the evening Cheap Wigs will play again at Mutiny with The Legendary Union 706 and The Nervous.
Saturday | 11.07
What: Tank and the Bangas w/Ariel J. and Zeus
When: 7
Where: The Gothic Theatre
Why: Tank and the Bangas are touring in support of their new album The Last Balloon. The band from New Orleans offers a vibrant fusion of funk, soul, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and traces of reggae. Tarriona “Tank” Ball has one of the most versatile and commanding voices in the realm of modern hip-hop easily transitioning from singing to rapping to suit the mood and rhythm of the songs. With a legendarily charismatic live show the album’s new songs that are both fun and challenge prevailing power relations and interpersonal conflict with creativity and love will get their proper expression on stage.
Saturday | 11.07
What: Margaret Glaspy w/Olive Klug
When: 5:30
Where: Ophlia’s Electric Soapbox
Why: Margaret Glaspy’s new album I Am Both wastes no time getting right into the emotional resonance from the first track, “Michigan.” It showcases the singer-songwriter’s expressive and vivid vocals and her ability to weave a story of vivid resonance and unabashed vulnerability. Is it folk pop? Sure but Glaspy’s songwriting is so strong and her style so immediately engaging and fresh there’s no mistaking her for another artist. The record seems to take on social mores and conflicts in the current era that many of us had thought part of the past yet Glaspy makes those concerns part of her personal narrative thus rendering them more relatable and in the end harder hitting.
Saturday | 11.07
What: Loud Women Fest
When: 3pm doors, 4 show
Where: The Fox Theatre
Why: The London, UK-based feminist music festival comes to Boulder for the first time. Launched by Cassie Fox of the “mummycore” band I, Doris and friends the festival has become an international concern. For the Boulder edition you can see a variety of bands from Colorado and else where. The lineup consists of GUNK!, I, Doris, Tarah Who?, All Thicc, Bitchflower, Dressy Bessy, Fatal Femmes, Brokentear, The Dollheads and Blankslate.
To Be Continued…
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