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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
