- This event has passed.
Next Up: New Artist New Music featuring Skizzy Mars at Living Room W Minneapolis – The Foshay, Minnneapolis
September 8, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Join the W Minneapolis – The Foshay on September 8th for a intimate show featuring Skizzy Mars live at The Living Room.
In partnership with Billboard
Doors open at 7PM || Show at 8PM
Must RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/next-up-new-artists-new-music-featuring-skizzy-mars-tickets-27125504113
New York itself might as well be a concrete orchestra of clattering train tracks, piercing sirens, and bellowing crowds.
Manhattan is a borough of sounds just as diverse as its denizens. Against that backdrop, rapper, songwriter, and artist Skizzy Mars always set himself apart since his childhood in Harlem. With equal readiness to name check Morrissey, nod to big screen romances, and precisely spit an ode to a stranger on the subway, an outlier perspective fuels his full-length debut, Alone Together [Atlantic Records].
“I took a liking to being different,” the man born Myles Mills affirms. “For my whole life, I was the only black kid in mostly white schools on the Upper East Side. I never wanted to listen to what everyone else was listening to. In high school, a friend sent me a bunch of files with Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar, Animal Collective’s Strawberry Jam, and a bunch of things like that. That kind of songwriting was fascinating. Once I discovered A Tribe Called Quest, I got into rap. Records like Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon and The Killers’ Sam’s Town can bring me back to a time in my life. That’s what I aim to do with my albums.”