Caroline Rose is coming back to the Aggie, nearly three years later

Last in Fort Collins in April 2024, Rose returns Tuesday, March 9, 2027 with "Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall," a new record on their own label.

The last time Caroline Rose played Fort Collins was April 26, 2024, a Friday night at the Aggie Theatre. It has been a long wait, but it's over: Rose is booked back at the Aggie for Tuesday, March 9, 2027, announced Oct. 20. Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $28–$33 on Tixr through the link on this page.

A lot has changed since 2024, and most of it is on one record. On Oct. 23, Rose released Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall, eleven songs produced by John Congleton, on SUCK Records, Rose's own newly launched label. Coverage of the August announcement called it a hyperreal Americana fantasy in which humor, memoir and suburban dread collide. The singles came out ahead of it: "Yip Yip Yow," which also opens the album, and "Chow Mein." Other tracks include "Valery (please don't be mad at me)" and "Goddamn Train."

So the March show will be Fort Collins' first chance to hear the new album live, and by then it will have been out more than four months: long enough that people will know the songs. Rose spends this fall on in-store sets and signings, starting at Rough Trade in New York, then goes to Europe. Their agency's itinerary puts Fort Collins on the North American run that follows.

Same room, nearly three years later, and a new record nobody has heard live here.

The room suits it. The Aggie at 204 S. College Ave. holds about 650, and it has been a lot of things: a movie house that reopened in 1953 after a fire and closed as a cinema in 1995, then a music venue since 2002. The owners of Denver's Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom bought it in 2015. For an artist whose records are full of character work and small jokes, 650 people in an Old Town theater is the right size: big enough for a full band, small enough that people at the back hear the punchlines.

Some notes before you buy. The Aggie's own calendar lists the show for March 9.

Rose spent the time between visits making a record about malls, horses and the dread under suburban life. Fort Collins gets to hear it on a Tuesday in March.

Sources: High Road Touring: Caroline Rose itinerary (highroadtouring.com); JamBase: Caroline Rose at Aggie Theatre, Apr 26, 2024 (jambase.com); JamBase: Caroline Rose announces new album 'Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall' (jambase.com); Stereogum: Caroline Rose announces new album, hear 'Chow Mein' (stereogum.com); Under the Radar: Caroline Rose announces new album, shares 'Chow Mein' (undertheradarmag.com); Pollstar: Caroline Rose announces new album, adds fall appearances (news.pollstar.com); Z2 Entertainment: Aggie Theatre (z2ent.com); Cinema Treasures: Aggie Theatre (cinematreasures.org)