Amoeba Music

Amoeba Berkeley hosts a live performance and meet & greet with ShrapKnel and AJ Suede on Thursday, May 18th at 5pm! The performance is free and open to all-ages. Buy ShrapKnel's latest album, Metal Lung, and/or AJ Suede's Avada Kedavra at Amoeba Berkeley that day to get them signed after the set.

Also catch them at Neck of the Woods in SF on May 17th.

ShrapKnel
Curly Castro and PremRock -- a duo as dissimilar as they are made for each other. The two artists are a veritable study in contrasts and contradictions; Castro was born and raised in Brooklyn but lives in Philadelphia, and PremRock grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania but has been in New York since ‘08. Castro’s militant wordplay, reggae-influences, and booming baritone somehow perfectly balance PremRock’s silver-tongued flows, literary allusions, and deadpan humor. ShrapKnel is a Venn diagram of ill communications. Schooly D to Stromile Swift. Def Jux to Detlef Schremf. They are students of Black Uhuru and Breeze Brewin, Baldwin and Bukowski. Steel sharpens steel, and this blade is as sharp as it gets.

AJ Suede
Known for his psychedelic amalgamation of East Coast and Northwest sounds, Seattle-based rapper/producer AJ Suede has carved a lane of his own. With a prolific discography of over 40 projects, he shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. He has shared the stage with the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Xavier Wulf, R.A.P. Ferreira, Marc Rebillet, and many more. He has also been featured in outlets like SPIN, The Seattle Times, KEXP, Okayplayer, and Lyrical Lemonade, just to name a a few.