Ty Segall, Future and LE1F are our picks for the best shows around Colorado this week. See you there, and if you don’t make it out, follow our music musings on and our selfies on . Oh, we have a Snapchat, too. Our name is HeyReverb. Hit us up.
Ty Segall — Gothic Theatre, March 11
Like poltergeists in a haunted house, songs impatiently seeth inside of garage guitarist Ty Segall. In eight short years, he’s released nine studio albums of manic psyched-out fuzz rock. Somehow, Segall continues to draw fascinating-if-dizzying fruit from the well of rock’s most exhaustively explored instruments. “Emotional Mugger” is the latest in his long line of frenetically brilliant trips to the amp-filled fun house. Watch Segall crank the album through the halls of the Gothic Theatre while donning a now-standard creepy baby mask on March 11. Tickets run $20-$23 and are available via axs.com.
Future — Fillmore Auditorium, March 15
It’s a fool’s errand to go mining in Kanye West’s Twitter for nuggets of wisdom. But he got one thing right this year: “We the people need to see Future at the Grammys.” Combining Southern hip-hops tetchy trap beats with a syrupy slur, Future, AKA Nayvadius Cash, lives up to his billing. Though he’s spawned a few sound-alikes, there’s no substitute for Cash’s trademark sound. From the Drake collab “What A Time To Be Alive” to his latest album, “Evol,” Future has cleared room for his brand of dark, sub-burbling R&B. If not some distant Grammys, bank on catching it at the Fillmore Auditorium on March 15. Tickets: $39.75-$69.75 via livenation.com.
LE1F — Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, March 14
Combining glam-rock theatrics with incisive verse, there isn’t anything quite like LE1F’s live show. Or his albums, for that matter. “Riot Boi,” the rapper’s latest, is a bold assertion of the rappers sexual and racial identity in the face of homophobia and racism. The album is a direct response to Riot Grrrl , the hardcore-punk movement that’s been a bastion of radical feminism in the music industry. LE1F aims to challenge, but that doesn’t mean he can’t write a hell of a hook — e.g. his above performance of “Wut” on David Letterman. Tickets: $18-$20 via
