EL-P’s at Neumo’s tonight with Dizzee Rascal. Charles Mudede writes about the dude’s sci-fi side in this week’s paper. A taste:

More than any other rapper and producer, El-P has translated the themes and images of the most prophetic science-fiction film of the ’80s into the sounds of late-hiphop—a period that proceeds from the postmodern moment in hiphop, between 1993 and 1997 (the modern period of hiphop is between 1984 and 1992). El-P can be found at the point at which Blade Runner officially enters hiphop in the middle of 1997, on Mike Ladd’s debut album, Easy Listening 4 Armageddon. The exact point of entry is a track called “Blade Runner.” Mike Ladd, Bigg Jus, and El-P immerse themselves in a beat world that is as monstrous and as dark as the one 97 floors below Deckard’s one-room apartment (a small kitchen, a stuffed living room, and a tiny balcony that Deckard, whiskey in hand, blanket wrapped around his shoulders, visits to fill his lonely moments with the sublime canyon of domesticated skyscrapers).

Read the whole article here.

Also tonight:

Langhorne Slim, Ferraby Lionheart
(Tractor) Rumors of the transcendent nature of Langhorne Slim’s performances keep popping up in recent conversations. While his new self-titled album is on high rotation in my apartment, I haven’t caught the young man in the live setting yet. But judging from videos posted online, there is validity to the buzz. Whether bearing his soul with suitable restraint on Letterman, or hollering sweaty and shirtless in a crowded Brooklyn apartment at 3:00 a.m., Langhorne is indeed a masterful performer. Cognizant of his environment and his audience, he seems equally capable of playing to drunken revelers and reserved Newport folkies. Who knows where the Tractor’s audience will fall on that spectrum on this particular night, but Langhorne is gonna own it either way. BRIAN COOK

Our online calendar has the whole list.