Dev Lemons takes the Eat the Pavement Tour inside Meow Wolf

The genre-dodging artist plays Convergence Station's 478-capacity room on Saturday, Nov. 14, with Venus & the Flytraps opening.

Most concert venues don't make you walk past an alternate universe on the way to the stage. Next Saturday, Dev Lemons plays inside one: Meow Wolf's Convergence Station, the multi-story art installation tucked under the viaducts off I-25.

Here's the night: Dev Lemons plays Meow Wolf Denver | Convergence Station on Saturday, Nov. 14, with Venus & the Flytraps opening. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are through Meow Wolf. The performance space holds 478, small enough that nobody is far from the stage.

Dev Lemons arrives on the Eat the Pavement Tour, a fall run that has been working across the country for the past few weeks. It's already been through Philadelphia on Oct. 29, Brooklyn on Oct. 30 and Boston on Nov. 1, then Syracuse and Columbus, and it hits Indianapolis tonight before turning west toward Denver.

What to expect is harder to pin down, and that's the appeal. JamBase files Dev Lemons under EDM, but the artist has built a career by refusing to fit neatly into a single lane (Meet Minneapolis). The most recent record is *SURFACE TENSION*, described as a debut album (Washington.org), and a review of the single "Best Friend" noted that the album's release lined up with this national tour, with Venus & the Flytraps among the support acts (Melodic Magazine). Songs on Dev Lemons' own Bandcamp, with titles like "Ghosted My Dentist" and "Autopilot," give a sense of the humor running through the catalog.

An artist who refuses to fit a single lane, in a building that refuses to be a normal venue.

Venus & the Flytraps have been with the tour for much of its run, so by the time they reach Denver the two acts should have the night well worked out. Get there for the opener; on a bill like this, the support set is part of the point.

The setting deserves its own paragraph. Convergence Station opened in September 2021 as Meow Wolf's third permanent exhibition, and at 90,000 square feet it is the company's biggest installation (Blooloop). It was built into a narrow gap between three viaducts near downtown (Bloomberg) at 1338 1st St. (Wikipedia). If you've only been for the exhibit, a concert night is a different way to experience the building; if you've only been for shows, the art is reason enough to come back on a weekend afternoon.

An artist who won't sit in one genre, in a building that won't behave like a normal venue, is a good match. An 8 p.m. Saturday start leaves time for dinner first and somewhere to go after.

If you like your shows a little strange, this is the one on the calendar next weekend. Bring a friend who's never been to Meow Wolf and watch them try to explain it the next day.

Sources: Dev Lemons at Meow Wolf Denver — JamBase (jambase.com); Tickets — Meow Wolf (tickets.meowwolf.com); Dev Lemons – Eat The Pavement Tour — Meet Minneapolis (minneapolis.org); Dev Lemons — Washington.org (washington.org); Dev Lemons ‘Best Friend’ single review — Melodic Magazine (melodicmag.com); Dev Lemons — Bandcamp (devlemons.bandcamp.com); Meow Wolf Convergence Station Denver opens — Blooloop (blooloop.com); How Meow Wolf Denver found room for art underneath a highway — Bloomberg (bloomberg.com); Convergence Station — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Dev Lemons – Eat the Pavement Tour — Jam Productions (jamusa.com)