Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum builds songs out of noise, machinery, and old world theater. The band mixes progressive metal with avant-garde composition, throwing in spoken word and homemade instruments until the line between rock band and performance art stops mattering. It is not background music. It asks for attention and rewards it with something genuinely strange.

They have upcoming Colorado dates at the Bluebird Theatre, a good chance to catch a band that never settled for a straightforward sound.