Club Midway NYC presents …  NYC’s friendliest indie hip-hop show ever!  If you’re tired of guns, bling and pimps, come check out something completely different.  Every act is dance friendly, high energy and musically innovative, so come see for yourself what all the fuss is about.  Featuring Anti-Pop Consortium’s founding member and musical pioneer High Priest, this is a night of quality music.

Doors open at 8, show starts at 9pm and the party will be finished before midnight, so come early!  $7 at the door.

High Priest (of Anti-Pop Consortium/Airborn Audio)
myspace.com/prizmaudio

High Priest is known for “Evoking images of Sun Ra and Africa Bambatta at once” (Jesse Sewer XLR8or). As the founding member of the critically acclaimed Antipop Consortium, Priest has consistently challenged the boundaries of traditional hip-hop, winning the praise of taste makers across the globe. In the course of his career, spanning nearly a decade, Priest has shared the stages with a wide array of artists ranging from The Roots to Radiohead, Mos Def and others. As a composer his pieces have been installed in the Whitney Biennial (NYC) as well as the Mazzoli Gallery (ITALY).

Domer (Skipping Beats Records/MINDSpray)
myspace.com/domer

Blurring the line between rapping, singing, hip-hop, electro and indie rock with an uptempo punk-rock energy, Domer is a constant innovator.  2007 saw two national US tours, the release of “Work With Me” on Welsh label Skipping Beats Records, a victory in the Knitting Factory’s Whose Rhyme Is It Anyway? Freestyle Competition, and the introduction of a whole new type of open-source musical project called “My Favorite EP”.  In addition to rocking crowds coast to coast with hip-hop legends including KRS-ONE, Grandmaster Kaz, Mel E Mel, Poison Pen, Breez Evahflowin, Daedelus, and many more, Domer has also achieved commercial success, with beats on television ads aired nationally on MTV2, MTVU, Fuse, Comedy Central, SiTv, G4 Tech TV and Spike TV and on several Sony-Ericson web commercials.  Nike’s mega-site nikebasketball.com also featured several Domer beats alongside such other producers as Jus Blaze and the RZA.  

100dbs+Ryan O’Neil
100dbs.com

“They don’t pretend to be Native Tongues or try to imitate the output of D.I.T.C., but they come off like the logical antecedent of those artists, as if the lineage from one to the other has remained unbroken by the last 10 years of capitalist confusion, or at least as if the reigns of those artists had continued uninterrupted.” - Okayplayer

Kats (Shit Kid Movement)
myspace.com/katsthemusical

With two full-length albums (Kats the Musical & Almost Fameless), a couple of Mixtapes, and year’s worth of live performances under his belt, Kats has been making a name for himself on the bubbling New York City underground hip-hop scene. Critically acclaimed for his ability to infuse subtle, humorous social commentary and clever pop culture references into complicated, intricately crafted rhyme schemes, Kats has created a fiercely loyal fan base that religiously attends his addictively energetic live performances. A veteran of the rap game, Kats has been working with DJ SmutVillain for nearly a decade, forming the core of a hip-hop collaborative that now features another talented emcee FolkLore, and the soulful vocalist Sarah Clark.