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The wonder-chops of Thundercat

John-Paul Shiver - March 4, 2020

With chops like Jaco Pastorius and the humor of Frank Zappa, Stephen Brunerʻs shell game is out the bag. The Los Angeles bass wiz known...

New Music: Werkha strikes dance floor gold with ‘The Rigour’

John-Paul Shiver - January 19, 2020

Widespread critical acclaim on releases from Yazmin Lacey, Kaidi Tatham, and Children of Zeus made underground and mainstream heads around the world acknowledge First Word Records in 2018....

New music: Orion Sun brings winter warmth with ‘Ne me quitte pas’

John-Paul Shiver - January 9, 2020

Here we are, dead-ass in the January winter of a new decade. Maybe at the brink of war? And the future, like clockwork, Googles up a...

LA producer Elusive steps into a fidgety ‘Ambient Void’

John-Paul Shiver - December 28, 2019

For his 20-plus year career and the latter part of this decade, Elusive—the Los Angeles based producer—has remained steadfast about that work. Making music with...

Culture

Chatting by cell: ‘Uncuffed’ is a prison podcast for our time

Peter-Astrid Kane - December 23, 2019

As setups to Thanksgiving jokes go, a manic wild turkey that burst into a California prison compound seems almost too on-the-nose, considering how two...

Our critic picks 2019’s Music of Note

John-Paul Shiver - December 18, 2019

There is no through-line to this 2019 Music of Note line-up. Just honest music that runs the gamut of progressive soul, breakbeat mayhem, a...

Kamaal Williams brings London’s nightlife jazz explosion to SF

John-Paul Shiver - December 9, 2019

When the South London artist Kamaal Williams, aka Henry Wu, comes to 1015 Folsom on Fri/13 (with Jazzy Jeff as part of the Motown on Mondays...

Goldie returns to revive SF’s golden age of drum and bass

John-Paul Shiver - December 8, 2019

If the early 1990s are regarded as the golden age of European techno, a theory recently put forth by British electronic music royalty Kirk...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more

Marke B. - December 4, 2019

Blades will slice, crystals will fly, Mariah will be Careyed up to the high heavens. OK, it's not as dramatic as all that—I wish—but...

Review: MF Robot’s ‘Finders Keepers’ pushes a rolling funk momentum

John-Paul Shiver - November 29, 2019

When Brand New Heavies burst on the scene in the late '80s appropriating fashion and funk music cues from the 60ʻs, they were part...

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