No Bird Sing

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Icehouse

2528 Nicollet Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: Uptown/ Eat Street

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• Toki Wright
• Eric Blair
• No Bird Sing
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Hip-Hop and Rap

For listeners taking in the menacing groove and Eric Blair's liquid flow, it's easy to overlook an important component of No Bird Sing's music: They play hip hop without a bassist or DJ. For this local trio, defying convention has made them one of the area's most prominent up-and-coming acts. Case in point: MC Blair eschews typical hip-hop self-aggrandizement in favor of an honest, plain-spoken rapping style that owes more to contemporary literature and a healthy regimen of NPR than it does to the posturing of his musical forebears. Guitarist Robert Mulrennan and drummer Graham O'Brien (of Hyder Ali and Abzorbr) lock together with distorted, jazzy melodies and broken rhythms to create a dense, organic sound that rewards repeated listens. With Toki Wright.
Fri., Dec. 14, 11 p.m., 2012