with WU-TANG CLAN, BIG GIGANTIC, DISCO BISCUITS, TWIN SHADOW, UMPHREY'S MCGEE, SCHOOLBOY Q, CHROMEO, CHANCE THE RAPPER, CULTS, FLYING LOTUS, DANNY BROWN, SONNY KNIGHT AND THE LAKERS, CHERUB, and MORE Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 3:00pm16+Venue: Somerset Amphitheater Info TabsDetailsfeaturing BASSNECTAR, KASKADE, WU-TANG CLAN, BIG GIGANTIC, DISCO BISCUITS, TWIN SHADOW, UMPHREY'S MCGEE, SCHOOLBOY Q, FLUX PAVILION, CHROMEO, CHANCE THE RAPPER, CULTS, DATSIK, FLYING LOTUS, DANNY BROWN, SONNY KNIGHT & THE LAKERS, RL GRIME, CHERUB & MORE! Special GuestsSpecial Guests: WU-TANG CLAN Wu Tang Website Read more about WU-TANG CLAN BIG GIGANTIC Read more about BIG GIGANTIC DISCO BISCUITS Disco Biscuits on Myspace Read more about DISCO BISCUITS TWIN SHADOW WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMTwin Shadow is a Dominican American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor based out of Los Angeles, California and signed to Warner Bros. Records. He has written a novel and released three albums: Forget (2010), Confess (2012) and Eclipse (2015). Lewis' fourth album, Caer, was released on April 27, 2018. Read more about TWIN SHADOW UMPHREY'S MCGEE WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDThe music of Umphrey’s McGee unfolds like an unpredictable conversation between longtime friends. Its six participants—Brendan Bayliss [guitar, vocals], Jake Cinninger [guitar, vocals], Joel Cummins [keyboards, piano, vocals], Andy Farag [percussion], Kris Myers [drums, vocals], and Ryan Stasik [bass]—know just how to communicate with each other on stage and in the studio. A call of progressive guitar wizardry might elicit a response of soft acoustic balladry, or a funk groove could be answered by explosive percussion. Read more about UMPHREY'S MCGEE SCHOOLBOY Q For the first time in a long time, Hip Hop can genuinely say that a new generation of MC’s have arrived. Sure, there are those who helped birth the culture and music and people who can say they grew up with it. But now, you are witnessing perhaps the first generation that can say they were raised on Hip Hop almost exclusively. If you don’t agree, you’re probably not listening to enough ScHoolboy Q. Although the artist born Quincy Matthew Hanley has only been rapping since 2007, his bluntly charismatic presence on wax should’ve already put him on your radar as one of rap’s emerging voices. Read more about SCHOOLBOY Q CHROMEO WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDWorld leaders, powerful CEOs, and other fat cats could learn a lesson or two from electrofunk duo Chromeo, namely: know thyself, know thy vibe, and stay thy course. The rest of the population will catch up. Indeed, Chromeo is really good at being, well, Chromeo. The mission, the package, the vision — it’s been a straight shot of pure intentionality from the jump. Read more about CHROMEO CHANCE THE RAPPER WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDA 19 year old Rap Master from Chicago, Chance The Rapper first made some noise on the Chicago hip-hop blog Fake Shore Drive with his video for Nostalgia in early 2011. Since then Chance has building a steady buzz, with packed out listening parties at Leaders1354 & JUGRNAUT in CHI, the full release of his premiere mixtape #10Day, and the SOLD OUT first ever #10DayLive show at Lincoln Hall. Read more about CHANCE THE RAPPER CULTS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDCults made their name in black and white. A pair of film school dropouts who burst onto the New York scene with a perfect single and a darkly retro sound, the band’s first two albums play like noirish documentaries on a lost girl group. Four years after Static, Cults returns with Offering, an exciting collection of songs bursting with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. The time off has given the band new energy and new ideas–Cults are working in Technicolor now. Read more about CULTS FLYING LOTUS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMNearly half a decade has somehow elapsed since the last Flying Lotus album—the Grammy-nominated cadaver tetris of You’re Dead! During that intermission, the multi-disciplinary Los Angeles artist has remained in constant orbit, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered comic horror hallucination Kuso, and producing much of Thundercat’s Drunk. He’s also nurtured his Brainfeeder imprint into the most consistently innovative record label of the decade. Yet throughout that span, there was the matter of his next full-length statement. Read more about FLYING LOTUS DANNY BROWN WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERWARPIn an era of industry-obsessed MCs, interchangeable hashtag raps, and “viral” everything, it has become increasingly difficult to find a true original in the rap game, an artist able to ignite a buzz without calculatedly chasing it down. Read more about DANNY BROWN SONNY KNIGHT AND THE LAKERS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSECRET STASHVitality is defined as the power to live or grow, and perseverance pertains to the qualities of moving forward when an obstacle stands in your way. The music of soul man Sonny Knight brims with these essential life traits because he exudes them. Along with his 7-piece powerhouse band, The Lakers, the 68 year-old retired truck driver has created a sound that extends much deeper than throwback soul. Read more about SONNY KNIGHT AND THE LAKERS CHERUB WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMBeyond the fog of burning blunts, the sea of whiskey, and forest of empties, you’ll find two sweethearts in a Nashville garage. Just as they were yesterday, the day before that, and years prior. Searching for the perfect combination of string plucking, button pushing, and knob turning to craft the ideal sound to make you forget your world and step into theirs. The aforementioned sweethearts are Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber; known to most as “Cherub.” Read more about CHERUB MORE Read more about MORE Somerset Amphitheater
TWIN SHADOW WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMTwin Shadow is a Dominican American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor based out of Los Angeles, California and signed to Warner Bros. Records. He has written a novel and released three albums: Forget (2010), Confess (2012) and Eclipse (2015). Lewis' fourth album, Caer, was released on April 27, 2018. Read more about TWIN SHADOW
UMPHREY'S MCGEE WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDThe music of Umphrey’s McGee unfolds like an unpredictable conversation between longtime friends. Its six participants—Brendan Bayliss [guitar, vocals], Jake Cinninger [guitar, vocals], Joel Cummins [keyboards, piano, vocals], Andy Farag [percussion], Kris Myers [drums, vocals], and Ryan Stasik [bass]—know just how to communicate with each other on stage and in the studio. A call of progressive guitar wizardry might elicit a response of soft acoustic balladry, or a funk groove could be answered by explosive percussion. Read more about UMPHREY'S MCGEE
SCHOOLBOY Q For the first time in a long time, Hip Hop can genuinely say that a new generation of MC’s have arrived. Sure, there are those who helped birth the culture and music and people who can say they grew up with it. But now, you are witnessing perhaps the first generation that can say they were raised on Hip Hop almost exclusively. If you don’t agree, you’re probably not listening to enough ScHoolboy Q. Although the artist born Quincy Matthew Hanley has only been rapping since 2007, his bluntly charismatic presence on wax should’ve already put him on your radar as one of rap’s emerging voices. Read more about SCHOOLBOY Q
CHROMEO WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDWorld leaders, powerful CEOs, and other fat cats could learn a lesson or two from electrofunk duo Chromeo, namely: know thyself, know thy vibe, and stay thy course. The rest of the population will catch up. Indeed, Chromeo is really good at being, well, Chromeo. The mission, the package, the vision — it’s been a straight shot of pure intentionality from the jump. Read more about CHROMEO
CHANCE THE RAPPER WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDA 19 year old Rap Master from Chicago, Chance The Rapper first made some noise on the Chicago hip-hop blog Fake Shore Drive with his video for Nostalgia in early 2011. Since then Chance has building a steady buzz, with packed out listening parties at Leaders1354 & JUGRNAUT in CHI, the full release of his premiere mixtape #10Day, and the SOLD OUT first ever #10DayLive show at Lincoln Hall. Read more about CHANCE THE RAPPER
CULTS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDCults made their name in black and white. A pair of film school dropouts who burst onto the New York scene with a perfect single and a darkly retro sound, the band’s first two albums play like noirish documentaries on a lost girl group. Four years after Static, Cults returns with Offering, an exciting collection of songs bursting with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. The time off has given the band new energy and new ideas–Cults are working in Technicolor now. Read more about CULTS
FLYING LOTUS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMNearly half a decade has somehow elapsed since the last Flying Lotus album—the Grammy-nominated cadaver tetris of You’re Dead! During that intermission, the multi-disciplinary Los Angeles artist has remained in constant orbit, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered comic horror hallucination Kuso, and producing much of Thundercat’s Drunk. He’s also nurtured his Brainfeeder imprint into the most consistently innovative record label of the decade. Yet throughout that span, there was the matter of his next full-length statement. Read more about FLYING LOTUS
DANNY BROWN WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERWARPIn an era of industry-obsessed MCs, interchangeable hashtag raps, and “viral” everything, it has become increasingly difficult to find a true original in the rap game, an artist able to ignite a buzz without calculatedly chasing it down. Read more about DANNY BROWN
SONNY KNIGHT AND THE LAKERS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSECRET STASHVitality is defined as the power to live or grow, and perseverance pertains to the qualities of moving forward when an obstacle stands in your way. The music of soul man Sonny Knight brims with these essential life traits because he exudes them. Along with his 7-piece powerhouse band, The Lakers, the 68 year-old retired truck driver has created a sound that extends much deeper than throwback soul. Read more about SONNY KNIGHT AND THE LAKERS
CHERUB WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMBeyond the fog of burning blunts, the sea of whiskey, and forest of empties, you’ll find two sweethearts in a Nashville garage. Just as they were yesterday, the day before that, and years prior. Searching for the perfect combination of string plucking, button pushing, and knob turning to craft the ideal sound to make you forget your world and step into theirs. The aforementioned sweethearts are Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber; known to most as “Cherub.” Read more about CHERUB
