Hip-hop Archives - Page 22 of 35

Talking beat evolution with SF native producer Dave Aju

John-Paul Shiver - November 28, 2019

For years, Marc Barrite built out his Dave Aju alias, a wordplay nom de plum for a San Francisco techno night in the early...

5 artists you can’t miss from Noise Pop’s second wave

John-Paul Shiver - November 25, 2019

Facilitators of Noise Pop, the annual independent music festival that takes place in San Francisco the week of February 24th-March 1st, just announced their...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more

Marke B. - November 20, 2019

I'm old enough to remember rappers on Fillmore corners and TURF dancers in Oakland intersections. The homeboys gathered on my stoop throughout the day...

Kumail’s ‘Yasmin’ tunes into a celestial radio show

John-Paul Shiver - November 17, 2019

Art is based on the inability to predict how it will be received. Sometimes as a DJ you get tired of breaking fools' ankles. Kumail Hamid did....

At Dirtybird Campout, chasing summer’s waggling tail-feather

Peter-Astrid Kane - November 4, 2019

I never heard so much disco at a music festival as I did at Dirtybird West Coast Campout 2019 earlier this month. One of my...

Monophonics return with chest-out soul ‘Chances’

John-Paul Shiver - October 25, 2019

"Chances" the chest-out and sturdy, nimble groover, chronicles, in just over three minutes, the end of a relationship due to all the love which goes,...

Broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe revives his CHURCH

John-Paul Shiver - October 22, 2019

Way before old-guard magazines and new-school platform writers, present company included, broke their own minds blathering at the top of their Twitter voice about the current...

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

John-Paul Shiver - October 15, 2019

When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory. Trying to sort out the next...

Bumping serious boogie-funk with The Pendletons

John-Paul Shiver - October 10, 2019

E da Boss, one half of Myron and E, aka Eric Boss, and Daniel Meisenheimer aka Trailer Limon, are the root basis, writing, and arrangers of...

Banjos, bandanas, & a Monkee—the scene at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Estefany Gonzalez - October 9, 2019

The weather was gorgeous and the crowd broke records at the 19th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which seemed to include a lot more roots...

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