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Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

John-Paul Shiver - July 6, 2020

With this past weekend, summer's officially here—and while that may not mean dancing in the streets, you can certainly use some new protest and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)

John-Paul Shiver - July 2, 2020

Here we are halfway through 2020, with so much to keep an attentive eye on that you might walk into the shower fully clothed....

Diving into Sespool’s genre-agnostic indie rap

Daniel Bromfield - July 1, 2020

Before Rin Tin Tiger, Westwood & Willow, Pericardium, or the weird-ass Christmas album, he was Sespool—the “SES” coming from his initials, Sean E. Sullivan....

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Marke B. - July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

News + Politics

Black youth a new organizing force in Oakland

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - June 30, 2020

As former Black Panther Angela Davis spoke to the crowd of thousands that had gathered at the Port of Oakland June 19 to protest...

New Music: With ‘Move Out,’ SUMif drops a rousing synth command

John-Paul Shiver - June 28, 2020

When the creative juices get ignited, possibilities ARE unlimited. Words pogo directly to and from the ole ticker. So instantly after Steph Wells, of the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

Dennis Harvey - June 26, 2020

The SF International Film Festival that wasn’t a couple months ago—one of COVID-19’s earliest cultural casualties—would have included a 20th-anniversary screening of Greg Harrison’s...

New Music: Chroma’s ‘Source of Nurture’ comp features East Bay faves

John-Paul Shiver - June 26, 2020

When Chroma—the NYC collective and creative agency that advocates for centering the work and experience of womxn of color—reached out to DJ-producers Lara Sarkissian and 8ULENTINA, along with...

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

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