![]() ![]() ![]() 6, after proper sleep and a screening of the surprisingly effective series-improver It Chapter Two, in the now dry and quite pleasant City Plaza with the Boys from Boone themselves, The Nude Party, looking like the early ‘70s spat them out but let them keep the hair, wardrobe, and musical talent, after which, in the spot originally reserved for Purple Mountains (R.I.P. ![]() Cole, at whose mere presence the crowd erupts, a fire that Olu and WowGr8 spread for the next jam-packed hour, complete with moves by talented audience members pulled up on stage, and a visit to the Lincoln floor, where the chemistry-rich Atlanta duo gets the rapturous crowd to form a cypher circle and resuscitate old-school rap at its finest, albeit with a futuristic twist that’s rightfully earned them the title of heirs to Outkast’s empire.īack to it on Friday, Sept. 5 acts slated for downtown Raleigh’s City Plaza a few miles away at The Ritz, fitting a couple of thousand eager fans indoors for energetic sets by Kurt Vile, a good deal more punky and animated than he was last summer at The Orange Peel, and Sleater-Kinney, whose Carrie Brownstein is quite the shredder and high-kicker, booting attendees back out into the blustery conditions for their choice of nine indoor venues within blocks of one another, like the cramped basement dwellings of Imurj and its peppy women-fronted rock bill of Kississippi and The Illuminati Hotties, decent stopgaps for Lucy Dacus at Pourhouse or Boris at King’s, the walk to which sees plenty of umbrellas losing battles with violent gusts and ends in long lines outside the buildings that are especially unappealing in these natural conditions, especially when a short jaunt away is the Lincoln Theatre and the end of Chicago rapper Joey Purp’s warm set, followed shortly - hooray for thrifty hip-hop changeover times! - by EarthGang, who take to the stage accompanied by none other than their Dreamville Records boss J. When there’s as much high-quality music to be seen over the course of three nights as there was at the 2019 Hopscotch Music Festival, things tend to run together, even more so when the wind and rain of Hurricane Dorian knocks the Thursday, Sept. ![]()
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