Over and Under

One big show, one smaller The only gimmick Dawes could be accused of is one it can’t help. Sure, drummer Griffin Goldsmith and frontman Taylor are brothers, but keenly penned songs they’ve culled out of the ether in the last eight years has made them rock stars in their own right. “We’re All Gonna Die,” their latest, is a prime example, which is like going to a party themed around the apocalypse, with one hand raising a glass of tequila (literally on chummy sing-a-long “When The Tequila Runs Out”) and the other slung around the Grim Reaper. The band is playing the Ogden Theatre on July 22, sans opener. Tickets are $30-$35 and are available via axs.com. Seeing a hometown band grace the stage at Red Rock Amphitheatre is enough to bring anyone with a “Colorado Native” bumper sticker to prideful tears. To do three nights and not bat an eye? Only Crested Butte’s String Cheese Incident could pull that off. The band’s banjo-scrambled jam proclivities have won it fans nationwide for decades, but Colorado has long been its stronghold. On the heels of a new album, “Believe,” the band has carved out a homecoming worthy of the banner it helped raise here, solidifying Colorado as the jam band capital of the country. Tickets are $33-$165 and available via axs.com. —