Email Author Anna Klafter

2004 Stories by Anna Klafter

• J-Zone

  published September 22, 2004

  The cover alone is enough to have you in stitches: J-Zone lounging on the beach wearing a full-length fur coat, a martini in hand, a boombox by... More >>

• The Beatnuts

  published September 15, 2004

  These frat boys of East Coast rap return to the scene with their sixth album, a mixture of funky productions and juvenile rhymes. Not much has... More >>

• Hear This

  published September 8, 2004

  Thursday, Thursday, THURSDAY! The monsters of instrumental hip hop invade San Francisco when Sixtoo and DJ Signify roll into town.... More >>

• DJ Zeph

  published August 25, 2004

  Much like this album's recycling company namesake, San Francisco party DJ-turned-producer Zeph picks through sonic leftovers to create something... More >>

• Sixtoo

  published July 7, 2004

  Armed with a Fender Rhodes piano he got from his girlfriend for his 29th birthday, a bass guitar, a friend's drum kit, his trusty MPC 2000XL... More >>

• Record Holders

  published March 17, 2004

  Flying to a DJ gig with my records always entails the same conversation: Old guy on the plane: What do you have in the bag? Looks... More >>

• Hear This

  published March 10, 2004

  You hear it everywhere. It's almost unavoidable: "Slow Jamz," Twista's breakout hit single in which the lyricist, rapping at the speed of... More >>

• BeatBox

  published March 10, 2004

  Through 10 years and almost as many different locations, "Club Dread" has been rockin' steady as the Bay Area's oldest reggae music weekly.... More >>

• Come Gurp With Me

  published February 4, 2004

  You can tell a lot about a man by the way he talks. When San Francisco rapper Z Man – first name Zamon, last name Christmas Tree (or so h... More >>

• Various Artists

  published January 7, 2004

  When the Beastie Boys proclaimed, "This one goes out to my man the Groove Merchant/ Comin' through with the beats that I've been searchin'," on... More >>