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Posted On: November 1st 2005
Posted By: Bryan Kremkau
Source: www.blackalicious.com |
Anti recording artist BLACKALICIOUS have announced the next leg of their national concert tour in support of their latest album The Craft. Balancing deep thought with visceral impact, The Craft features 15 new tracks and is the group's most accomplished release to date. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a fully realized work that's futuristic, funky and soulful," and lauded by Time Out London as "another triumph of experimental hip hop," the album is the duo's first collection of new material since 2002.
Dates for Blackalicious' US tour are as follows:
2005-11-01 Fox Theatre & Cafe Boulder CO
2005-11-02 Fox Theatre & Cafe Boulder CO
2005-11-05 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA
2005-11-06 Crowbar State College PA
2005-11-08 Headliners Toledo OH
2005-11-09 Great Hall Madison WI
2005-11-10 Gargoyle Club St Louis MO
2005-11-11 Canopy Urbana IL
2005-11-12 The Dame Lexington KY
2005-11-13 Top Cats Cincinnati OH
2005-11-15 Cats Cradle Carrboro NC
2005-11-16 Orange Peel Asheville NC
2005-11-17 City Hall Nashville TN
2005-11-18 Roxy Theatre Atlanta GA
2005-11-19 The Norva Theater Norfolk VA
2005-11-20 9:30 Club Washington DC
2005-11-21 Mr. Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh, PA
2005-11-23 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
2005-11-25 Electric Factory Philadelphia PA
2005-11-26 Orpheum Theatre Boston MA
Emerging from the influential Bay Area indie scene of the mid-90s, The Gift of Gab, one of the most respected MCs in the game today, and phenomenal producer/DJ Chief Xcel, fused together to form Blackalicious. Since impacting the music world in 1995 with their critically acclaimed debut album Melodica, the pair's innovative compositions and insightful lyrics have provided a roadmap for hundreds of underground artists to follow. Gab and Xcel's relationship as the MC and DJ/Producer reflects the core artform of hip-hop, and the duo now claims five groundbreaking albums and EPs to their credit.
The Craft reveals one of global hip-hop's best loved, most critically acclaimed crews in the midst of yet another artistic breakthrough. Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab have created a record that represents state-of-the-art hip-hop with an expansive worldview. The music has such sonic depth and lyrical ambition that it can proudly stand alongside the work of Bay Area funk fathers Sly Stone and Shuggie Otis, as well as hip-hop classics like Outkast's Aquemini, The Roots' Things Fall Apart and Gang Starr's Daily Operation. From its opening, the album moves from peak to peak, including the Prince-ly rush of the album's first single "Powers", a sinuous funk summit with George Clinton on "Lotus Flower", and the seductive meta-futurist soul of "Automatique," which features special guest vocals from Floetry.
Blackalicious founded one of the nation's leading independent labels Quannum Projects in 1991, along with DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. Chief Xcel and The Gift of Gab remain active owners and both released side projects on Quannum in 2004. Gift of Gab released his solo debut Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up and Chief Xcel put out a Fela Kuti mixtape entitled The Underground Spiritual Game, as well as Maroons: Ambush with Lateef.
For more info go to www.blackalicious.com or www.anti.com.
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