Forecastle night owls, get ready to rock! The Festivaldoesn't stop on the waterfront. Travel down to the Mercury Ballroom for Forecastle Festival's official late night shows on both Friday and Saturday.  Talib Kweli takes the stage Friday night. The Floozies will rock on Saturday. Shows are produced by AC Entertainment and Production Simple - Concerts & Events and are presented by Bell's Brewery, Inc. and powered by Do502.

The Brooklyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most lyrically-gifted, sociallyaware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap’s most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with political activists and his genre-straddling work with Idle Warship and others caused Kweli to realize that he was limited in a sense, a prisoner of sorts of his own success as one of the world’s best rappers with something significant to say.

Prisoner Of Conscious arrives as an artistic triumph, a collection that embodies Talib Kweli’s robust creative vision. “I wanted to put out an album that really can support the artist that I’ve become,” he says. “I’m a touring artist. I’m an artist that’s internationally known. I’m not just a local artist at this point in my career. I’m cognizant of the fact that what I do is beyond where it started. I’m trying to reach the apex of where I am now, but without turning my back on or dismissing what I’ve done before.”