Big Tune, a beat competition that started two years ago at the War
Room, returns home after touring a galaxy of cities. Emerging
producers present their beats to the people, the old-school way, and
the people judge the boom and the bap. The beat that rocks the
crowd the most is the beat that wins. As Jonathan Moore says, “The
speakers don’t lie.” (The War Room, 722 E Pike St, 328-7666. 9 pm,
free, 21+.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...