Musician Paul Simon participates in the Country Music Hall of Fame benefit concert at PlayStation Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Paul Simon, Project Pabst and SOAK are our picks for the best shows around Denver this week. See you there, and if you don t make it out, follow our music musings on Twitter and our selfies on Instagram. Oh, our editor has a Snapchat, too. Add “dylanacious” to see him make musicians puke rainbows mid solo.
Paul Simon — Bellco Theatre, May 20
American songwriting master Paul Simon is still touring after all these years. Simon s first tour since 2011 will see him and his seven-piece band tackle a slew of small theaters across the country, including Denver s 5,000-person Bellco Theatre on May 20. Simon is touring in support of his 12th solo studio album, Stranger to Stranger, which comes out on June 3. Simon has so far shared one song from the album called Wristband, a jazzy single that takes on gatekeepers both literal and metaphoric . If the rest of his new album is as promising, you might forget you were waiting all show long to hear him play The Boxer. Tickets are sold out.
Project Pabst — RiNo, May 20-21
Every South Broadway millenial s favorite beer is throwing a block party. Project Pabst descends on Denver s RiNo neighborhood on May 21 and will boast a stellar music roster. Violent Femmes, Charles Bradley and the Extrordinaires, FIDLAR and Best Coast (subbing in for Courtney Barnett, who was snatched up by Saturday Night Live for the show s season finale) among others will join hometown favorite Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats on Saturday. Too poppy? The festival will host Rocket from the Crypt, Pentagram and others at the Marquis Theatre and Summit Music Hall on May 20 and 21. Tickets are $65 and are available via .
SOAK — Larimer Lounge, May 24
Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson takes her stage name from a portmanteau of “soul” and “folk.” In practice, though, she’s culled from the same discipline of spare emotional indie as Julien Baker and King Krule. Her meditations are on emergencies of youth — inextricable love (“Blud”), life sans compass (“B a noBody”). Like a teenage Y.A. author, her songs have telltale authenticity to them, privy to the heart-rending transitions that age foists on us. Catch her at the Larimer Lounge on May 24. Tickets are $12-$15 via .
