On Thursday July 10, Jurassic 5 will take the Cuthbert Amphitheatre stage. The alternative hip hop group formed in 1993, the same year as the release of the paleontological Spielberg blockbuster that shares half the group’s name. The band, who is famous for “Taking four MC’s and make them sound like one,” (although they now have six) is still riding the catapult success of their 2013 reunion, which came after a 6-year hiatus.
Despite the hiatus, J5′s Facebook page is laden with enthusiastic fan posts, including, “I just came in my panties, finding out you guys are coming to Denver!!!!” and “It’s a Jurassic 5 kind of day.”
Just this year, J5 released their first new music since the hiatus — a White Stripe-sampled single titled “The Way We Do It.” Their 20-city Word of Mouth Reunion Tour kicks off July 7 in Reno, Nevada and will end August 3 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Beat Junkies, the DJ supergroup, famous for tasty turntabling, are set to open the show.
The LA-based hip hop group Dilated Peoples will follow, fresh from a Euro tour (they play in Germany the night before the start of Word of Mouth).
Jurassic 5, Beat Junkies and Dilated Peoples. Cuthbert Amphitheatre located at 601 Day Island Rd. Tickets are $37 and gates open at 5:30. The show starts at 7 p.m.