Keanu Reeves is coming to Denver — but leave the Matrix glasses at home

Keanu Reeves is headed to Denver this September, but he won’t be promoting a movie, dodging bullets in slow motion or looking pensive on a park bench. He’s coming to play bass.

Reeves’ alternative rock band Dogstar will perform at Summit Music Hall on Sept. 2 as part of its All In Now Tour, the band’s U.S. run supporting its latest album of the same name, which dropped May 29. Denver is the tour’s penultimate stop before wrapping up in Salt Lake City the following night. Tickets are available now through Live Nation, with prices starting around $32.

Dogstar is one of those bands that sounds like a bar trivia answer but has been quietly legitimate for more than three decades. It started in 1991 when Reeves spotted drummer Robert Mailhouse wearing a Detroit Red Wings sweater at a Gelson’s supermarket in Los Angeles, struck up a conversation about hockey, and the two started jamming in Reeves’ garage. Guitarist and vocalist Bret Domrose joined in 1994 after showing up to help fix an amplifier and never leaving. The band opened for David Bowie in 1995, released two albums in the late ’90s and early 2000s, then went dormant for two decades while Reeves was busy being, well, Keanu Reeves. They reunited in 2022, put out a comeback album in 2023 and have been touring steadily since.

“This is way more fun now than it’s ever been,” Domrose told the Los Angeles Times ahead of the new album’s release. Reeves, described by the Times as “by far the band’s quietest member despite his years in the Hollywood spotlight,” plays melodic, chord-heavy bass lines that Domrose has nicknamed “Chordal Reeves.”

Summit Music Hall, at 1902 Blake St. in Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood, is an intimate room for a guy who’s used to filling IMAX screens — which is kind of the point.