The Yawpers and Wayfarer bring two nights Spearfish
Night One: The Yawpers. Monday, May 4. 5–7 p.m. Crow Peak Brewing Co., Spearfish. Star Wars Day. Costumes encouraged. Free will donations to Ridge Riders Trail Foundation.
Night Two: Wayfarer + Dylan Lewis. Tuesday, May 5. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Crow Peak Brewing Co., outdoor stage. All ages, free show. $5 Cañon Tajo Mexican Lager for Cinco de Mayo.
Night One:
The Yawpers
Monday, May 4 | 5–7 p.m. | Crow Peak Brewing Co., Spearfish Star Wars Day.
Costumes encouraged. Free will donations benefit the Ridge Riders Trail Foundation.
The Yawpers are a Denver three-piece built around two acoustic guitars and a drum kit, and if that sounds like it should be quiet, it isn’t. Nate Cook, Jesse Parmet, and Alex Koshak have spent fifteen years playing punk-volume rock out of an Americana frame, pulling from blues, rockabilly, and outlaw country in ways that Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times have all tried to describe and mostly come back to variations of the same word: raw. Their four albums include a WWI France concept record produced by Tommy Stinson of The Replacements and a live-tracked record cut at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago. They’ve toured with Lucero, Nashville Pussy, and the Reverend Horton Heat, and they’ve had songs land on Showtime. Monday they’re at Crow Peak, and the door is free will.
Night Two:
Wayfarer + Dylan Lewis
Tuesday, May 5 | 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Crow Peak Brewing Co.,
Spearfish All ages. Free show.
Wayfarer are also a Denver band, also with a KEXP session to their name, and almost nothing else about them resembles the Yawpers. The four-piece has spent over a decade building what they call “black metal of the American West,” drawing from blast beats and tremolo guitar on one end and Ennio Morricone and the gothic country of Sixteen Horsepower on the other. Their 2020 album A Romance of Violence told a chapter-by-chapter story of life in the Rocky Mountain West in the late 1800s. Their most recent, American Gothic, released in 2023 on Profound Lore and Century Media, was described in their own words as a funeral for the American dream, produced by Arthur Rizk, who has worked with Kreator and Eternal Champion. They have played Roadburn. They have toured Europe. Tuesday night they are on an outdoor stage in Spearfish, and it is free to walk in.
Two nights, two Denver bands with KEXP sessions and national press behind them, playing in Spearfish. Crow Peak is giving the Black Hills two nights of touring-level music this week, and both shows are worth rearranging a Monday and Tuesday so you can be there.