Open Mike Eagle with Jordan Patterson and J.Rocc

See live concerts in the Hammer’s courtyard for free! Enjoy happy hour, late gallery hours, art-making, and more. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances start at 7:30 p.m.

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With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Open Mike Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. On albums like ​Brick Body Kids Still Daydream ​and ​Dark Comedy​, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like ​Pitchfork,​ ​Rolling Stone​, and​ NPR​ has coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the United States.

North Carolina-born and LA-raised, Jordan Patterson is a singer, songwriter, and producer creating catharsis from an alternative landscape. Her music is genre-less by nature, as Patterson tiptoes around a plethora of different styles, sounds, and emotions to reflect her experience as authentically and as holistically as possible. She has recorded with musicians cross-nationally, working with producers from LA, New York, Atlanta, and London. She has been featured in multiple media outlets, including Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Line of Best Fit, Nina Protocol, and has received attention from Spotify’s editorial curators who have featured Jordan on their Alt/Pop and New Music Friday Denmark playlists. Blunt, raw, and decisive, Patterson is crafting a world through her music by inviting listeners to absorb the depth of her humanity and imagination.

One of the original turntablists, J.Rocc founded the Beat Junkies in 1992 with Melo-D and Rhettmatic, but has done just as much on his own as in a group setting. He began DJing in the mid-'80s with a California group named PSK. Soon after forming, the Beat Junkies became a seminal force in the rise of instrumental hip-hop, including core member Babu plus future stars Shortkut and D-Styles. In addition to numerous mixtapes and his own production for Stones Throw releases, J. Rocc has been the DJ for Madlib's live shows since the early 2000's, was the 3rd member of Jaylib (Madlib & J Dilla) during the group's live events, and collaborated with Madlib on Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to J Dilla. J Rocc's first album of his own original production, Some Cold Rock Stuf, was released in 2011. Since then, he's released solo albums A Wonderful Letter (2022) and Beatitudes (2023).