Hieroglyphics' Third Eye Vision Anniversary Tour

It was almost 30 years ago that Del the Funky Homosapien assembled the rap collective Hieroglyphics and it's still one of the most unique, innovative hip-hop groups ever to do it. There are a few comparable peers — A Tribe Called Quest, Black Star, Jurassic 5 — but none as experimental, idiosyncratic, and sometimes just flat out strange as Hieroglyphics could be (Del's later work with Deltron 3030 and Gorillaz owes a lot to these early records). To mark the 21st anniversary of the crew's debut, 3rd Eye Vision, the group (Del, Casual, Pep Love, Domino, DJ Toure, Souls of Mischief) is celebrating with a tour stopping at The Smiling Moose. Selecta opens.