Mark Mallman played music for 78 consecutive hours in a Minneapolis rock club last month. This was not a 78-hour festival, nor a 78-hour listening party, no, this was one man playing continous music for more than three days without rest, joined by a rotating cast of about 100 supporting musicians. Mallman, whom you might have seen play a riotous (albeit shorter) set at 3 Kings Tavern as part of the Underground Music Showcase this past summer, headlines the Hi-Dive tonight. Opening support comes from A. Tom Collins, a vaudevillian, spooky crooner better known as the underwear-clad, organ-smashing lead singer of Machine Gun Blues. Today ($7, )
Mike Gordon has been spending quite a bit of time in Colorado lately. The mop-top bassist of Phish played two days in Telluride in August, three nights at the 1stBank Center last month and made a special guest appearance at the Fourmile Canyon Revival. Gordon’s third solo album, “Moss,” may fall a little flat by some Phishheads’ standards, though there’s no denying that he’s in an elite class of pluckers when it comes to a live setting. Saturday at the Fox Theatre. Sold out.
John Hendrickson: 303-954-1785 or jhendrickson@denverpost.com
