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The 10 Best Bay Area Hip-Hop Records of 2012

It's been another big year in Bay Area hip-hop, with one huge collaboration album from two local greats and lots of strong releases from young local upstarts. So before the world ends, let's round up the 10 best Bay Area hip-hop/rap records (including albums, mixtapes, etc.) of 2012. Main Attrakion ... More >>

DJ ChaunceyCC on the Spooky Side of Hip-Hop, and Stopping with the Stupid Subgenres Already

East Coast-rasied hip-hop DJ-producer ChaunceyCC began his career in a very straightforward way: "I became a DJ pretty much out of the sheer fact that I can't rap, and everyone else I grew up around could." The observation paid off, as the selecter born Chauncey Johnson has since toured with indie r ... More >>

5 Bay Area Artists Whose Tours Have Been Disrupted By Sandy

Sandy is disrupting pretty much everything on the East Coast -- including the plans of Bay Area artists who have shows scheduled there. Granted, canceled concerts aren't the worst problem in the world, with dozens reported dead and NYC subway tunnels still flooded, but they're worth noting. Especial ... More >>

Aesop Rock and Dark Time Sunshine Will Give You a Haircut You'll Regret at the Fillmore

Ever find yourself fantasizing about receiving an extreme haircut on stage at The Fillmore while Aesop Rock performs a song? Well, that's precisely what's going down this Sunday when Aesop performs "Racing Stripes," a song about getting a bad trim, from his new Skelethon album. During the performanc ... More >>

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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Aesop Rock on Making Skelethon Alone, Working with Kimya Dawson, and His Love-Hate Feelings For Live Shows

The last time Aesop Rock released an album, Hillary Clinton was running for president, tech nerds were lining up for a first-generation iPhone, and no one ever had to read or write headlines about Justin Bieber's hair. A lot's changed since 2007, and it's been a big half-decade for the MC as well. W ... More >>

Aesop Rock Climbs Back into the Spotlight with "Skelethon"

Top Five Hip-Hop Songs That Shout Out and Give Thanks

Hip-hop isn't exactly the most festive or friendly music in the world. Yeah, there's a smattering of Christmas rap songs -- although Run-DMC's "Christmas In Hollis" really isn't that good -- but on the whole, the genre has shunned the lure of the extended holiday season. But don't despair! Rappers n ... More >>

Saturday: Phono del Sol Festival Pairs Eclectic Music with Angry Skaters

Dean SchafferAesop Rock (right) raps faster than you can even understand at Phono del Sol.​ The Phono del Sol Music and Food Festival, featuring Aesop Rock, Mirah, Man/Miracle, and more July 16, 2011 @ Potrero del Sol Park Better than: Registering to vote. It's hard to turn down anything fre ... More >>

Music Links: San Francisco's Problem with Live Music, Kreayshawn at Thrift Town, and More

Kreayshawn at Thrift Town​ "Hey San Francisco, why don't you like live music?" [HuffPost SF] Kreayshawn goes to the Mission's Thrift Town. [Mission Mission]

Free Concert Alert: Phono del Sol Festival This Saturday

​Free music. Food. Parks. Hipsters. If you like at least two of those things, you should head over to Potrero del Sol Park by Cesar Chavez and 101 on Saturday, July 16, for the Phono del Sol Music and Food Festival. Put on by The Bay Bridged and Tiny Telephone, the event will feature veteran ... More >>

RJD2 on the Dehumanizing of Music, and Performing with Four Turntables

​Performing with and producing for artists like EL-P, Aesop Rock, and Aceyalone, RJD2 has paved an unprecedented path for himself since the 2002 debut of his instrumental hip-hop album, Deadringer. He's shown his creativity in a variety of outlets, whether it be the soundtrack to a skate vide ... More >>

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In Print: Shabazz Palaces Lets Its Idiosyncratic Hip-Hop Do the Talking

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: Yeah, don't expect to see their faces unless you go to the show.​Shabazz Palaces: If there's one thing we're supposed to know about Shabazz Palaces, it's that we're not supposed to know shit. In the two years since recordings by the Seattle-based ... More >>

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Cop Atmosphere & Aesop Rock's Record Store Day Single

​How was your Record Store Day? Did you relive the simple bygone joys of exchanging physical money for a cold hard physical artifact that you could display proudly in your home and, if need be, use as a doorstop or coaster? If you didn't make it to a participating retailer to pick up the six ... More >>

Quickly Now: Atmosphere & Aesop Rock Tickets for Pre-Sale This Morning

And for as long as I breathe I'll save a seat in my memory for that rapper with the tattooed arms which are unfortunately covered with sleeves right now​Esteemed prolix rapper, bat enthusiast, and Bay Area adoptee Aesop Rock is gearing up for some wildness at his Noise Pop show next Friday at the ... More >>

Noise Pop 2011 -- The Films: Arcade Fire, Feist, José González, the Making of Noise Pop, and More

The Flaming Lips in This Is Noise Pop​S.F.'s annual Noise Pop Festival is mostly known for bringing a week of awesome indie music shows to the city. But the fest usually pulls in a pretty good selection of new films for music nerds -- and this year is no exception.With film subjects including the ... More >>

Aesop Rock and Cage Will Play Free Show Saturday To Send Off Zerofriends Shop In Style

Toni FrancoisAesop Rock​This may well come back to bite me in the ass, but what's the use keeping a secret on the internets? Bay Area adopted son Aesop Rock and reformed psycho-rapper Cage will be playing brief sets tomorrow at 5 p.m. in the soon-to-be ex-retail space of the Zerofriends collective ... More >>

Download an EP from Central Services, the Bitter Cynic's Gnarls Barkley

If you're like everyone in the world, you've been into Cee-Lo's irrepressibly catchy reprisal anthem, "Fuck You." Maybe you've even checked it out in Spanish!Well. Think that's subversive? Try "Fuck Me." Meet Camu Tao: Ohio player, Def Jux staple, and member of some of underground rap's most venerab ... More >>

Grab A Bat-Ass Beat Tape From SF Producer Edison at 900Bats

What's new in the Bat Area -- excuse me, the Bay Area -- right now? Enclosed find some new sounds for the weekend courtesy of Frisco beatsmith Edison, who peddles grimy skip-hop jams made from a monome done up like a lunchbox. Here he/it is in action: Not that Edison needs any particular reason t ... More >>

Track(s) of the Day: Bossasaurus' Giant Tunes

In this week's paper, Phillip Mlynar profiles Oakland remix/production crew Bossasaurs. He writes of this group of hip-hop heads and dinosaur hoodie retailers:All four members of Bossasaurus are serious about their aims to be seen as creators. They openly scorn the current remix scene, dissing "lap ... More >>

Bossasaurus moves from remixing others to creating itself

Track(s) of the Day: Free Themselves Mixtape

It'll take you half the day to download it (or at least that's how long it just took us--pretty giant file), but Themselves' complimentary mixtape, theFREEhoudini, is up for grabs for the next 90 days only. The 39-minute long, uninterrupted mishmash of abstract hip-hop, space rap, and noisy scratche ... More >>

John Vanderslice, Sex Writing Reading and Super Bowl Sunday: The Weekend Hitlist: 1/30-2/1

It's an unusually beautiful January weekend in San Francisco with lots to do. Time can be spent lounging in Dolores Park (or your own neighborhood park preference) by day and rocking, laughing and partying the night away. Here are some things to check out:On Friday night John Vanderslice performs wi ... More >>

Download Aesop Rock's Exclusive Jeremy Fish Single for Free

We told you a few weeks prior to the premiere of Jeremy Fish's Ghosts of the Barbary Coast that mega-awesome emcee Aesop Rock recorded a new track that was featured exclusively at the exhibit. The single for "Tomorrow Morning" was sold alongside a Fish woodblock print, and is currently fetching upwa ... More >>

Aesop Rock to Release New Song at Jeremy Fish Art Show

Looks like we'll be getting some new Aesop Rock music along with new Jeremy Fish art. Fish premieres his latest Ghosts of the Barbary Coast exhibit at Fifty24SF Gallery on Dec. 4, and will also feature a new song that pal and frequent collaborator Aesop Rock recorded exclusively for the show. Aes ... More >>

Treasure Island picks: in haiku form!

Kork Agency goes L.A.

Justice, Hot Chip, Spiritualized, Raconteurs at Treasure Island

Lif Off

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

Aesop Rock's None Shall Pass A Mixed Bag

CD Review: Aesop Rock -- None Shall Pass

Led Zepp, Meg White and 50 Cent: The 'All Shook Down' Week in Review

Jeremy Fish at White Walls SF: ASD Attends

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El-P plays hip-hop host

The King of Pop vs. The Price of Baby Mustaches

DJ Krush

Stepping Stones (Sony Japan)

Hip Hop's Hit Ticker

Dabrye's nerdy interior

Going fishing for inspiration

Hip Hop, Year 2 A.J.

Zion I

True & Livin'

Aesop Rock

Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives

BeatBox

Aesop Rock makes the unintelligible, well, entertaining; the legendary Shapeshifters shuffle up from L.A.

BeatBox

DJ Krush lays down the moody beats; "Remember" takes you all the way back to the '70s, for better or worse.

Fabled Aesop

The rhymes are strange and the beats are bleak, but Aesop Rock insists that his latest is anything but experimental

El-P

Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)