clipping.

Let’s do something different tonight! Abrasive LA rap/experimental hiphop trio clipping. just debuted their Sub Pop album CLPPNG, and it’s a much-needed dose of weird. Producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes make noise—crumpling cardboard, abrasive alarm clocks, scrambled alien frequencies, clanging cartoon metal—while Daveed Diggs raps dark and gritty stories in a shotgun whirlwind-rap style. It’s hiphop with barely any beats, in the traditional sense—the darker and sparser side of future rap, especially incendiary in a live setting. (Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave S, columbiacitytheater.com, 8 pm, $12 adv/$15 DOS, 21+)