KGNU and 3Deep present Open Mike Eagle w/ Video Dave + DVNEHPPY (w/ Azon Classic)
KGNU and 3Deep Present Open Mike Eagle with Video Dave and DVNEHPPY (with Azon Classic on Sunday, January 8 — Open Mike Eagle spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like Brick Body Kids Still Daydream and Dark Comedy, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and NPR coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the U.S. Since founding his record label Auto Reverse Records, though, Eagle has scaled back the jokes. He’s finally unpacking his traumas and acknowledging their impact.With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. On Dark Comedy, which Pitchfork called “one of the most compelling indie-rap listens of [2014],” he chronicled everything from smartphone addiction to the realities of being an indie artist in the streaming era with self-deprecation and side-splitting absurdity. 2017’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group) marked Eagle’s shift toward examining trauma. Here he waded through the rubble of Chicago’s demolished Robert Taylor Homes, where several family members once lived. Part documentary and part tribute, BBKSD b lended powerful fantasy and grim reality. It illustrated the strength and vulnerability of a community afflicted by institutional racism and the enduring pains of life in the projects. There were few jokes but decades of survival.Anime, Trauma, and Divorce is Eagle’s first full-length album on Auto Reverse and the most personal project of his career. On the verge of middle age, reeling from the collapse of his marriage, he probes the darkness of his past and searches for lights to guide him forward. This is the sound of a broken man sifting through the pieces while trying to rebuild, the struggle to self-critique while practicing self-care. Do you disassociate by envisioning yourself as the lead in your favorite anime, or do you reflect on your headass behavior? Tattoos and beer or push-ups and smoothies? Executive produced by renowned rock producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), the album’s few features include Auto Reverse artist Video Dave and Eagle’s son. Anime, Trauma, and Divorce finds Eagle virtually alone, doing his best to reject the humor that will not cure his ills. All is not well, but he’s never been better.-16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Yung Bae Pre-Show Meet & Greet + Merch Pop-Up (FREE EVENT)
Larimer Lounge presents Yung Bae Pre-Show Meet & Greet and Merch Pop-Up on Tuesday, September 27 — Fee-free tickets for September 28 Ogden performance available for purchase. FREE EVENT
3Deep Presents Azizi Gibson w/ J Krupt + WNTR
3Deep Presents Azizi Gibson with J Krupt and WNTR on Wednesday, December 14th. Rapper Azizi Gibson was born in Frankfurt, Germany as part of a military family originally from Zaire, Gibson would spend the better part of his young life in transition. He lived in Singapore and Thailand before moving to Maryland, all while becoming increasingly interested in boundry- pushing hip-hop production and lyricism. Since signing his his first deal with producer Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder Label, Azizi has put out over 10 projects and gone on over 11 tours performing in over 200 shows world wide. With a new album in the pipeline for 2020, Azizi Gibson continues to push rap music into new and uncharted territory — and delivers as one of the most creative, intriguing and conscientious rap artists in the game today.VIP ticket includes: Signed poster, Photo with Azizi, early entry-16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Phabo w/ Hutty
3Deep Productions Presents Phabo with Hutty on Sunday, October 16 —16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Koi: Trial & Error Tour w/ Polearm + Supachefm
Larimer Lounge Presents Koi Trial & Error Tour with Polearm and Supachefm at Larimer Lounge on Tuesday, August 16 — -16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
CANCELLED: ericdoa – THINGS WITH WINGS TOUR w/ Glasear + juno
(CANCELLED) Larimer Lounge Presents ericdoa – THINGS WITH WINGS TOUR with Glasear and juno on Tuesday, May 10th –ericdoa is from what he describes as a “small ass farm town” in Connecticut, certainly not known for its artistic output or community. Without many like-minded kids at school, he spent most of his time on the internet growing up and met nearly all of his closest friends and collaborators online via platforms like Discord and Twitter. Eric grew up around a music-oriented family and was exposed to “raw pop artists” like Rick James, Earth Wind & Fire, and Teena Marie at a young age. When he started making music around 14 years old, these influences meshed with the music he heard online, and Eric taught himself to record and produce his own material.As time went on, this bedroom-based operation developed a humble but engaged following on SoundCloud, where Eric released his debut project, Public Target, in 2020. On the heels of the project, and with several of Eric’s friends and collaborators beginning to grow followings of their own, the online community began to circulate. The music they had been making via Discord calls since their younger teenage years was beginning to buzz, and was soon coined “hyperpop,” even receiving its own Spotify editorial playlist to underline the attention.As with any SoundCloud-born trend, there was skepticism about what “hyperpop” was, whether or not the kids making it would last more than a year or two, and why exactly the music sounded like it did when this first happened. But as Eric and his friends continued to release music, the attention grew, finding an exclamation point in Eric’s late 2020 project, COA.In 2021 Eric continued his upward trajectory of experimental releases and shared a slew of buoyant tracks — his Interscope Records debut, titled “back n forth” which received major support from Rolling Stone and Paper Magazine, followed by “fantasize” which currently has 17 million steams globally and “strangers” which led to Alternative Press naming him one of “The Artists Set To Rule Your Year [2022].” In addition to his solo releases Eric also released his collaborative effort with fellow artist, glaive. The project, which was followed by a sold out US tour, received impressive praise from The New York Times, The FADER, Pitchfork, DORK and more. Today Eric has caught the attention from the likes of Trippie Redd, Yungblud, Addison Rae and many more. As Eric continues to work on forging his own path, up next is his track “sad4whattt” — which was made on a whim with his frequent collaborators Whethan, Glasear, and fortuneswan. “None of us really revisited the track after we made it. I laid a hook idea that I had for 4 days and ended up forgetting about it entirely until we threw it together in this pack of demos to send over to HBO. Not knowing what they would pick, they ended up choosing something that all shocked us, in a good way of course.” Eventually the ecstatic song was featured on the Emmy®-winning HBO drama series Euphoria Season 2. While Eric no longer has to record on an XBox USB microphone out of his bedroom and he’s finally met a few more of his best friends in real life, not a whole lot else has changed. The formula is still the same, and as he continues to release music his forthcoming project will show, Eric’s next work will be his best yet.
Indie 102.3 Presents Tkay Maidza
Indie 102.3 Presents Tkay Maidza on Saturday, April 2nd —
Pell w/ Jango + Schama Noel
Larimer Lounge Presents Pell with Jango and Schama Noel on Thursday, March 10th —
