Wednesday Sept 27

OPEN MIKE EAGLE

SCALLOPS HOTEL

$12 Adv/ $14 DOS Backstage / Doors at 7:30

Open Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don't have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. The full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Don't miss the album or the show.