Lord Huron, Gary Clark Jr. and the Best Concerts in Denver This Week

Aussie popster Dean Lewis plays the Gothic tonight, and Gary Clark Jr. comes to Red Rocks.

Experimental metal duo the Body drops in at the Larimer on Tuesday, while Blackbear brings his pop punk/rap act to Red Rocks.

Lord Huron starts a two-night run at Red Rocks on Wednesday. Rivers of Nihil headlines a brutal evening of death metal at the Bluebird.

Experimental hip-hop act Wheelchair Sports Camp performs at Civic Center Park on Thursday and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead swings through Vail for two shows.

Dean Lewis
Monday, May 30, 8 p.m.
Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, Englewood
$29.50
Australia’s Dean Lewis makes ethereal yet dramatic pop songs, with blunted, distant pianos and synth lines that eventually cascade into a thumping 1-2 drum beat. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a sad montage sequence on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Gary Clark Jr.
Monday, May 30, 7:30 p.m.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison
$55-$89.50
Gary Clark Jr. mixes blues, soul and rock and roll music. He also incorporates head-nodding elements of hip-hop into his sound, notably on his 2019 single “This Land.” He’s joined by soul revivalists Durand Jones & the Indicators — Jones’s falsetto vocals evoke ’70s radio soul music.

The Body
Tuesday, May 31, 7 p.m.
The Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer Street
$15
Rhode Island experimental metal duo the Body eschewed the electronic-centric instrumentation and production-heavy arrangements of previous albums for its latest record, I’ve Seen All I Need to See. The album deconstructs metal until it saddles the line between music and creative use of noise.

Blackbear
Tuesday, May 31, 7 p.m.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison
$49.95-$99.95
Rapper Blackbear combines elements of hip-hop, emo and pop punk into his music. The remaining acts on the bill, Neck Deep, State Champs and MOD SUN, might not neatly fit into that description, but they live in the same neighborhood.

Lord Huron
Wednesday, June 1, 8 p.m.
Thursday, June 2, 8 p.m.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison
$42.50-$76
Lord Huron makes modern indie rock, but the Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based band’s sound feels like it was grown from the ashes of folk-rock musical scores from the ’60s and ’70s. The songs are dreamy, twangy, and possess a gentle, swaying quality. It’s spy music for sad people. Wednesday is the first night of a two-night run.

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
Wednesday, June 1, 5 p.m. and Thursday, June 2, 5 p.m.
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, 503 South Frontage Road E, Vail
$50-$75
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead formed in 2013 and primarily plays Grateful Dead tunes. The band is playing two nights in Vail and then Red Rocks on Friday. You could conceivably “follow” Joe Russo’s Almost Dead to all three dates and be an almost-Deadhead.

Rivers of Nihil
Wednesday, June 1, 8 p.m.
Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue
$19.50
Rivers of Nihil incorporated saxophone and cello into its technical death-metal sound on 2018’s Where the Owls Know My Name. The band’s sound is still very heavy, and with this show, you get a big lineup of growly death metal that includes Fallujah, Alluvial, Warforged and Burial in the Sky.

Phamaly’s BIG NIGHT!
Thursday, June 2, 5 p.m.
Civic Center Park (Amphitheater), 101 14th Avenue
$30-$125
Denver experimental hip-hop group Wheelchair Sports Camp will perform its original soundtrack to Phamaly Theatre Company’s recently produced take on Alice in Wonderland. Also performing are local musician Jeffrey Marshall and comedian Christie Buchele.

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