Open Mike Eagle:

"One of LA's smartest young voices" says the LA Times...which the artist suspects, may just be a covert way of saying LA is dumb. "Open" Mike Eagle wouldnt terribly mind, being born and raised in Chicago where the painful winters and his uppity grandparents kept him inside as a youth. He spent his formative years watching alternative music happen on MTV and hoping to one day be able to audition for the Native Tongues. As a young adult after graduating with a degree in Psychology, he did the next best thing and moved to Los Angeles, joining the Project Blowed collective where he made music and toured with Busdriver, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Nocando and more. He’s also gained notoriety in the world of comedy by being invited by professional funny people (Paul F. Tompkins, Hannibal Buress, Matt Besser/UCB) to rap at their shows. He’d like to be rap’s Kurt Vonnegut but recognizes that he’d first have to create something as iconic as the four-stroke illustration of an anus. He practices by releasing rap albums that delight, entertain, and confuse.

You can pick up his newest release "Dark Comedy" here:
http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/dark-comedy
http://mikeeagle.net/

Milo (Rapsmith)
(bio from LA weekly)
Twenty-two-year-old milo is one of independent rap’s rising stars. A recent L.A. transplant, the Chicago-bred rapper’s introspective and intellectually stimulating songs both eschew and lampoon hackneyed genre tropes; and the beats he selects are as diverse and challenging as the content of his rhymes. His debut LP, a toothpaste suburb, drops Sept. 23 on L.A. rapper Nocando’s label Hellfyre Club. The album features label mates Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle and Anderson Paak, as well as Kool A.D., Buck 65 and WC Tank. There is also production from iglooghost, Tastenothing, Greyhat and Riley Lake. 
His delivery is a rhythmic style of spoken word, and he references writers and philosophers as much as he does '90s Nickelodeon shows, and WWF wrestlers. Milo's music is honest and open, unpretentious and approachable. Though he'll namedrop Bertrand Russell, he's not trying to make you feel dumb, just suggesting you might like the guy's writing. In any case, it's not music for the passive listener.
http://miloraps.com/

Also Performing:
The Lobetrotters Collective
Trevaillé
Too Chill (Stanley Ipkuss + @Bayroo Burner)
Lucid Optics
Bottled Water

ALL AGES
Music starts at 6pm and show ends around 10pm
$10 advance
$15 at the door