Splendor & Misery Fest New York Performances

Splendor & Misery Fest lands at Knockdown Center with a bill that maps the current edges of electronic and hip-hop practice. Los Angeles trio clipping., built around rapper Daveed Diggs with producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, treats rhythm as narrative architecture as much as beat. Oakland artist SPELLLING (Chrystia “Tia” Cabral) brings songcraft that borrows from pop structure while refusing its comfort, alongside the long-running, shape-shifting duo Shabazz Palaces. It reads as a snapshot of an alternative canon, documented in real time in New York’s outer-borough circuit.