13 MARCH 19-25, 2026 westword.com WESTWORD | CONTENTS | LETTERS | NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | CULTURE | CAFE | MUSIC | BOULDERTHEATER.COM FOXTHEATRE.COM MAR 19 MAR 25 MAR 28 APR3 MAR 20 MAR 27 APR2 DAFT FLOYD THE BUZZ, KEVIN BANG & THE LONG ECHO ELISE TROUW PRESENTS: THE DIARY OF ELON LUST TOUR CIRCLING GIRL LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES LUKO WEST 22ND HUCK N HOUSE, DIPSEA FLOWER AN EVENING WITH SHADOWGRASS BANSHEE TREE RILEY J BAND DESERT DWELLERS MINDEX, NYRUS JUST ANNOUNCED APR 20 ...............................................CANNABUFFS X 420 MAY 2 ....................RUMOURS: FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE MAY 8 ......................................... TOUGH KNUCKLE TEDDY JUL 10 ...........................................................2000’S RAVE JUST ANNOUNCED OCT 10 .............................................HARLAND WILLIAMS MAR 20 MAR 23 MAR 26 MAR 27 NICK LOWE (SOLO) THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS (DUO) EVAN HONER SAM BURCHFIELD THE MENZINGERS I AM THE AVALANCHE BAD SUNS THE UNDERCOVER DREAM LOVERS MAR 19 MAR 22 MAR 24 AN EVENING WITH MATISYAHU SOLAS MOORS & MCCUMBER DARCY & JER Call Elaine Lustig, PhD .......................................................... at 303-369-7770 Needing Your Emotional ....... Animal W/ You? For eligible people who need their emotional support animal to accompany them at/or away from home, I am available to provide the documentation and counseling. CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED JCTD’s lyrics also recall the cleverness and idiosyncrasies of bands like Ween, es- pecially on songs like “Tractor Man.” As the band started writing the music for that tune, it “turned into a story of a serial killer who rides around a tractor and has got malicious intent,” Jenkins explains. But this group also gets deep. Taxi the Rich closes with the whispers of “Easy Love,” a tune both refl ective and intro- spective, with a Patti Smith-esque prompt: “Jesus died for no one / His mother wept for her sweet baby boy / And there’s no grand communion / I’m not sure I believe in / Easy love.” In other words, is unconditional love a true possibility? “The feeling of it is desperate,” Ian says. “The last chord doesn’t really resolve, it’s kind of an ellipses.” The ballad opens with the trill of the fl ute, which is a relatively new instrument for the band: Jenkins only recently uncovered his fl autist abilities, having bought the instru- ment ahead of Treefort Music Fest last year. “Will and our tour manager went to a pawn shop, and I had been wanting to get a fl ute,” Jenkins says. “We were looking on Facebook Market- place, too,” Will adds. “We were in Omaha, Nebraska, and messaged an old lady like, ‘Our fl ute broke down on the road.’” “We did say that,” Jenkins recalls with a laugh. “’This is an emergency, our fl ute broke down and we’re playing the biggest venue in town tonight!’” According to Jenkins, who played sax in high school, the fi ngering of the two in- struments is somewhat similar. “And I can whistle the beer bottle pretty well,” he notes. He made his fl ute debut on the stage at Treefort. “We were on one of the out- door stages at Treefort, which is probably a couple 100 people out there,” he says. “And I was like, Okay, I’ll go up and do an intro — solo fl ute intro to introduce the band while they’re coming on stage — and it was a hit.” “The fl ute’s kind of the spirit animal of the album,” Kelly says with a smile. That makes sense, given Taxi the Rich’s sweet sonic equilibrium. And it makes the chance to see JCTD perform the album at the Bluebird before the band takes off on a West Coast tour all the the more exciting. This is the beginning of another groundbreaking year for the Colorado crew. “I’m just looking forward to making art with my best friends,” Ian says, “all the time, as much as possible. More touring. More hanging out in the van, drinking coffee, drinking beer. Running down the middle of the road in the middle of the night. And it’s very important to us, the relationship between the band and the audience — we’re all here to let loose, let that energy out. Be ourselves.” Or, as JC himself would put it: “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Jesus Christ Taxi Driver releases Taxi the Rich at the Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue, 7:45 p.m. Thursday, March 19. Get tickets at bluebirdtheater.net. Music continued from page 12
