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Venerated juke producer DJ Rashad plays the dreaded 1 PM slot, when the gates have just opened and the weather always seems to be either blazing heat or pouring rain—I don’t imagine most festival attendees will have made it to the stage of their choice by 1 PM, or imbibed enough to start dancing to a mix of juke, ghettotech, and house. Likely issues with the crowd aside, this ought to be a good glimpse of what the man’s set sounds like, though I’d still recommend catching him at a headlining gig or listening to Rashad’s mesmerizing, freewheeling 2012 mixtape Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the Chi. Also Sat 7/20 at Constellation, 21+. —Tal Rosenberg Blue stage
Tree is on the Sunday itinerary of Reader music critic Leor Galil.
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The world first heard Killer Mike in 2000, trading verses with his mentor Big Boi on Stankonia. More than a decade later, he’s making better music than either former OutKast—or anyone else in the Dungeon Family, for that matter. The catalyst for Mike’s late-30s renaissance was New York underground fixture El-P; their collaboration has been as perfect as it was unexpected. El-P’s explosive industrial beats are the only proper match for a voice this big and rowdy—you can’t claim to “pummel punch a pumpkin-head punk in his pimple face” to the accompaniment of jazz samples. The duo’s June debut as Run the Jewels may be the best rap record of the year. —Tosten Burks Green stage
Blood Orange is on the Sunday itinerary of Reader reader Ireashia Bennett.
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