People Under the Stairs + Mikey Thunder

(this piece was published by Planet JH Weekly)Double K (Michael Turner) and Thes One (Christopher Portugal)—People Under the Stairs—are arguably the most successful fully independent hip-hop duo in the biz.  Known as “The Steep Dan of Rap Music,” recent festival performances like Glastonbury, Coachella and Bonarroo (which SPIN noted as “simply the best performance of Friday…period”) have hooked a new generation into their underground world of sampling, MCing and DJing.For opener Mikey Thunder, this will be a sweet homecoming. He relocated to Colorado a few years after being kidnapped by Michael Franti and Spearhead for the Stay Human Tour in 1999. Since then, Thunder has shared his “bassdriven-partyrock-electrocrunk-futurefunk” with some of the biggest names in hip hop and electronic music including Jurassic 5, Digable Planets, Del The Funky Homosapien, and Arrested Development. People Under the Stairs with Mikey Thunder, 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Pink Garter Theatre. $17-$20. PinkGarterTheatre.com, 733-1500.