MUSIC
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019
8:00 PM

Tierra Whack
Red Bull Music Festival
Rainbow Room
30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown, Manhattan

$25
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/music/events/tierra-whack

Tierra Whack's audio-visual album Whack World -- 15 songs, each exactly one minute long -- was the best pop music debut of last year.  Whack (Tierra Whack's her real name, BTW) may just be the best pop musician out there right now.  Her hip-hop is as overstuffed musically and conceptually as, say, Kevin Barnes's pop-rock is with of Montreal.  But Whack is a lot smarter and more down to earth.  There is not a second on Whack World that is not surprising and captivating.  The new stuff she's released this year ago is almost as great:  no sophomore slump here.  And whoever thought to book her into the Rainbow Room is a genius.  OF COURSE this show sold out in nano-seconds -- but you can get in if you really want to.  (Word to the wise:  Whack will be performing at Afropunk Brooklyn late this Summer.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  One assumes there will be drink and maybe food available at the Rainbow Room.  Before the show, you can grab some excellent Sichuan at Wu Liang Ye.  After, Russian Samovar.