Email Author Toph One

2008 Stories by Toph One

• The Devil and Doctor Octagon: Kool Keith returns

  published March 12, 2008

  From his 1988 landmark album Critical Beatdown with Ultramagnetic MCs to the groundbreaking collaboration with S.F. producer Dan the... More >>

• Making a Buzz

  published March 12, 2008

  I swear sometimes it feels like my head will fall off, what with all these cockamamie subgenres of music. Thankfully, we have DJ MikeBee to... More >>

• Parade Grounds

  published February 20, 2008

  San Franciscans turn ordinary events into grand spectacles. Every May, up to 100,000 costumed (and possibly drunk) runners race across town, and... More >>

• Cheb i Sabbah

  published February 6, 2008

  While Algeria-born, San Francisco–based DJ and producer Cheb i Sabbah is known far and wide for his ecstatic "1002 Nights" events... More >>

• Top'R

  published January 30, 2008

  San Francisco rapper Top'R has spent the last 15 years rocking walls with the Lords graffiti crew and stages with the Earthlings and Gurp City... More >>

• Underwater sirens stir local act Kitka to song

  published January 2, 2008

  In Slavic folklore, rusalki are mythological female creatures of the sea who, after suffering untimely deaths as humans, become ghosts... More >>