Em Beihold brings Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter to the Fox on Nov. 3

The "Numb Little Bug" songwriter plays an all-ages Tuesday on the Hill, touring her debut album with Janani K. Jha opening.

Four years ago a song called "Numb Little Bug" turned a songwriter into a Billboard Hot 100 name. Next week she brings a full album to the Hill. Em Beihold plays the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m., with Janani K. Jha opening. Tickets are through the Fox's Tixr page, which lists the show as all ages with accessible seating available.

Boulder kicks off the U.S. stretch of this run, the first of a dozen dates on our calendar for her, with Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland and Columbus following over the next week. According to Wikipedia's page on the album, this second leg of the tour begins in Mexico City on Oct. 31 and ends in Los Angeles on Nov. 19. Our records show no earlier Boulder show for her, so this looks like a first visit.

The tour is named for her debut album. *Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter* came out Feb. 27, 2026, on Republic Records: 11 songs in just under half an hour, preceded by the singles "Brutus," "Hot Goblin" and "Scared of the Dark," the last of which opens the record. Beihold has described it as a record about a "journey through depression, experiencing complete loss of self," and put it more plainly elsewhere: "The album is about me trying to fit all these roles that weren't natural to me."

"The album is about me trying to fit all these roles that weren't natural to me."

That is heavy subject matter, but it comes from the same songwriter whose breakout hit wrapped hard feelings in a catchy melody. "Numb Little Bug," her major-label debut single in 2022, reached the Top 20 of the Hot 100 and went platinum. Expect it to show up in the set, alongside songs with titles like "Van Gogh," "Lottery" and "Soup!" that suggest she has not lost her sense of humor along the way. Her official site has the full tour list.

The Fox is a good room for this. It sits at 1135 13th St. on University Hill, in a building that opened in 1926 as the Rialto Theatre and later ran as the Fox movie theater before reopening as a music venue on March 6, 1992, with The Meters, per Wikipedia's history of the venue). The marquee and Fox sign out front are originals from the movie-house days. At 625 capacity, it is close enough that a quiet song can actually be quiet.

Doors are at 7 p.m. per the Fox's listing, so arrive early if you want a spot near the front for Janani K. Jha's set.

If "Numb Little Bug" was your introduction, Nov. 3 is a chance to hear where she went next. Come for the hit, and stay for the songs about trying on roles that never fit.

Sources: Tixr: Em Beihold – Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter Tour with Janani K. Jha, Fox Theatre (tixr.com); Em Beihold: Tour (embeihold.com); Em Beihold: Numb Little Bug (embeihold.com); Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Em Beihold – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Fox Theatre (Boulder, Colorado) – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Fox Theatre official site (foxtheatre.com); Em Beihold | First Avenue (first-avenue.com)