FATHER JOHN MISTY
8:30 p.m. • Fine Line • 18-plus • $15
Father John Misty is the stage name of Josh Tillman, folk singer-songwriter and former Fleet Foxes drummer. An existential road trip involving a van chock full of psychedelic mushrooms was necessary for Tillman to excavate his newfound narrative voice, which resulted in the weird and stunning concept album "Fear Fun," released in May. The LP retains Tillman's signature vocal and lyrical beauty and compelling percussive heartbeats, but invokes them to tell id-fueled stories about charismatic cowboys, mischievous monkeys and hedonistic humans. The result is an eye-slicingly novel collection of songs that are often simultaneously haunting, witty, goofy and gorgeous. La Sera and Jeffertitti's Nile open.KAT KLUEGEL
SNOW PATROL & NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
7:30 p.m. • Roy Wilkins Auditorium • $46.75
Because we're shameless, here's former Oasis bandmate Liam Gallagher reacting via Twitter to his brother's current double-bill tour: "snore patrol Noel Gallaghers high flying smurfs who said rock n roll is dead." Notoriously broken sibling relationship aside, Liam has a point. Irish/Scottish quintet Snow Patrol has traded in the soft-rockin' sonic equivalent of a Nyquil-marinated slab of turkey for almost 20 years. The band added looped dance beats to "Fallen Empires," their 2011 LP; critics weren't impressed. Gallagher and his High Flying Birds took flight last year, two years after Oasis split (Liam is recording under Beady Eye). The Birds' eponymous 2011 debut found favor with its "Morning Glory"-era Oasis sensibilities. JAY BOLLER
THE FLOBOTS AND ASTRONAUTALIS
9 p.m. • Cabooze • 18-plus • $13-$15
After spending the better part of the last month and a half on the road opening for Denver hip-hop band the Flobots, local transplant rapper Astronautalis is checking in with a hometown Halloween show before bolting for Austin, Texas' Fun Fun Fun Fest. The Flobots are riding the August release of their third politically charged album, "The Circle in the Square." Its chamber-rock/rap canvas is appropriately organic for tracks tackling the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, but it feels a tad dated outside of Colorado. The Level Heads open.MIKE RIETMULDER
