Vince Staples w/JPEGMAFIA & Trill Sammy (all-ages, 9pm), Queensryche w/Fates Warning (all-ages, 8pm)

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Vince Staples released one of the most compelling albums of 2016 with his Def Jam debut Summer ’06, a complicated, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City-esque account of growing up amid the background of drugs, gangs and violence. But like many of the most respected rappers of his generation, he’s refused to be pigeonholed. He followed up that triumph with a more overtly arty, electronic album, 2017’s Big Fish Theory, then threw yet another curveball late last year with FM!, a brief, 22-minute thrill ride that featured some of his most buoyantly upbeat tracks yet. Critics were divided over whether the call the project an album or an EP, but Staples indicated there’s probably no meaningful distinction between the two anymore. “I was about to tell y'all FM! not an album but I don't even know what an album is anymore, so I'm just about to eat some catfish,” he tweeted with his usual sardonic wit.