Peaches Still Has More to Teach

When musician, producer, performance artist and provocateur Peaches (born Merrill Nisker) first came to Denver, the altitude got to her first. “I got oxygen, and I was so high from the oxygen I couldn’t put away my stuff,” she recalls. “I remember everyone sitting me down and being like, ‘Just talk out your ass like you’ve been doing, and just let other people do things for you, because you are not functioning.'”

Since then the Polaris Heritage Prize winner has acclimated to the altitude — or at least knows what to expect — and is returning to Denver on a tour celebrating the twentieth anniversary of her landmark album, The Teaches of Peaches. Peaches will perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre over two nights, opening for M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem. “I mean, how cool is…