"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Based on 45 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Shabazz Palaces is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Shabazz Palaces concert reviews describe live shows and performances as otherworldly, inventive, surreal, memorable, and ambient.
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States (2009 - present)
Bio
Shabazz Palaces are percussionist Tendai Maraire and Ishmael Butler, formerly of Digable Planets and Cherrywine. Working now under the moniker Palaceer Lazaro, Ishmael provides the group's vision and vocals, while Tendai employs ancient instruments from his homeland Zimbabwe.
Has Performed With
TheeSatisfaction, Porter Ray
Critic Concert Reviews
The Skinny (UK)
November 13, 2017
100
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All the weird, wonderful and downright bat-shit craziness that make up Shabazz Palaces’ music comes to life at the Art School; it truly is something to behold
They make experimental hip-hop and are on the roster of Seattle indie imprint, Sub Pop, sharing company with the likes of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Fleet Foxes.
The distance between that music and his latest incarnation as one half of spaced Seattle rap iconoclasts Shabazz Palaces is roughly equal to that between Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue and On The Corner.
Born partially of an effort to separate himself from ’90s alterna-rappers Diagable Planets, Ishmael Butler granted SP interviews ostensibly by email only at first, using the nom de mic Palaceer Lazaro.
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