Atmosphere, which plays the Rise Up concert series at Spa Beach Park in St. Petersburg, Florida on Jan. 6, 2024. Credit: Photo by Dan Monick

After a short holiday hiatus, St. Petersburg’s Rise Up waterfront concert series returns, this time importing Slug and Ant, an emcee and production duo better known as Atmosphere. The Rhymesayers founders have long created introspective hip-hop that was livetronic before the genre got a moniker.

Atmosphere also arrives supporting a 2023 album So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously which not only memorializes Slug’s pandemic existence, but reflects on the murder of George Floyd which happened more or less outside of his studio window in Minneapolis.

Mind bending DJ RJD2—supporting a 2022 album Escape from Sweet Auburn—opens the show along with Brother Ali, Sa-Roc and Zoodeville.

Tickets to see Atmosphere and RJD2 play the Rise Up concert series at Spa Beach Park in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Jan. 6 are still available and start at $25.