clipping. + Open Mike Eagle + Pedestrian Deposit

Imagine a rap album where the beat is a sample of broken machinery and the verse is a whole short story about the apocalypse -- and then imagine it's actually good. That's clipping., the trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, who decided rap could share a stage with horror movies and harsh noise and nobody had to apologize for either. Open Mike Eagle is on the bill tonight, which is the right pairing: ten years of the funniest, saddest, most articulate underground rap in California. Pedestrian Deposit opens with their harsh-noise duo set -- exactly the warmup this room needs. Music Box on a Tuesday is the place that books the shows nobody else in San Diego will -- about five hundred capacity, downtown. Bring the friend who taped Open Mike's mixtapes off Bandcamp before he had a Wikipedia page; the whole room did. Doors at seven, music at eight. Twenty-five dollars.