Over and Under

One big show, one smaller

With Hartford, an almost Conn.’s masochistic Sorority Noise bent makes for excavating a good time grief, out of eulogizing the bad ones. “This is the part where I remember all the things I should forget,” Sorority Noise frontman and guitarist Cameron Boucher slurs on “A Better Sun.” True to form, just as it started to rise out of its niche, the four piece immediately decided to lay back down again. Last week, the band announced that this tour will be its last before it goes on indefinite hiatus. “I think it’s in my heart and mind’s best interest to take a break from the band for a while,” Boucher said in a note to fans. Bummer. Catch the band’s last Denver show before its break on March 14 at the Marquis Theatre. Tickets: $17-$20 via ticketfly.com. It’s psychedelic. culture’s been decades musical Hearing since history the psychedelic genre helps. through Enter rock Japanese the actually lens psych-rock of sounded another project The long-haired Kikagaku five-man Moyo (“geometric outfit — four patterns” guitarists in English). and one drummer — finds an eerie center among its roving basslines, clattering cymbols and ... is that a sitar? Oh, yes. In other words, the walls don’t come crashing in on these shows; it isn’t the freak-out party rock of The Doors or Ty Segall. In fact, it might be the antidote to it. Float away on these psych dream boats when the band comes to the Hi-Dive on March 10. Tickets are $12-$14 and available via ticketfly.com.