[ATTENDED: March 4, 2017] clipping.
I first heard clipping. on All Songs Considered about a month ago. The song was noisy and brash and vulgar and featured incredible rapping from a voice that I recognized but couldn’t place. Then they told us that the rapper was Daveed Diggs who was Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette in Hamilton. He won a Tony for the role(s). And now here he was fronting this band of experimental glitch-hop. And there he was just a few dozen feet from us.
I love the Fillmore, but it’s one of the few venues that we don’t ever seem to be able to get very close to the stage for. I guess the artists are a little more popular (and tend to sell out) so there’s less wiggle room at some of the other shows. So we were further back than I would have liked. But we could still fully absorb the spectacle.
Clipping are not exactly the kind of band I’d pair with The Flaming Lips (who sing about rainbows and love and whatnot). And indeed, the contrast was pretty stark. But the Lips have a crazy stage set-up and it seemed to work perfectly with the kind of static and noise that Clipping creates. And I’m sure they loved being able to hook into the Lips’ wall of video screens behind them. (more…)
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