Email Author Darren Keast

2003 Stories by Darren Keast

• Soul Rebel

  published December 17, 2003

  Steffen Franz's bio -- he's a 37-year-old Jewish reggae producer on a crusade for consciousness in the often thuggish dancehall scene -- is almost... More >>

• Smooth Landing

  published October 8, 2003

  There are literally thousands of house-music DJs in the world, and it seems like a quarter of them live in San Francisco. So what sets Mark Farina... More >>

• Planet Rock

  published September 3, 2003

  The mentioning of drug use in rap lyrics has a long and slowly revealed history. In the beginning, drugs were only referenced in... More >>

• One Nation, Under Funk

  published July 2, 2003

  Shelly, a 26-year-old graduate student and lifelong heterosexual, made out with a woman for the first time at the Lower Haight club Nickie's BBQ... More >>

• Disaffected Duo

  published May 7, 2003

  If San Francisco electronic music, circa 1994, hadn't been so sunny and lovey-dovey, the work of Detroit twosome Adult. might not be so gloomy and... More >>

• Roots Radical

  published April 2, 2003

  There are plenty of tales in the jazz and blues scenes of young players facing trials by fire early in their careers -- stories of greenhorn... More >>

• Aphex Twin

  published March 26, 2003

  Assembling a retrospective of Aphex Twin's decade-plus remix work on two discs is like slapping a painting each from Picasso's Pink, Blue, and... More >>

• The Voodoo That She Do

  published March 19, 2003

  No two ways about it, voodoo gets a bad rap. The few cinematic depictions of the religion are heavy on the milky-eyed zombies and blood-soaked... More >>

• Preaching to the Unconverted

  published January 1, 2003

  Martin Luther is explaining the Trojan-horse strategy he's devised for breaking out of his billing as San Francisco's best-kept soul secret. He... More >>