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April 17, 2012
Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More
Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
The Game's The R.E.D. Album: A First Listen
The Game needs no introduction. The man who was kicked out of G-Unit and made a whole album about whinily stalking ex-benefactor Dr. Dre has most recently performed two actions: 1) Releasing a diss track called "Uncle Otis," whose targets include Tyler, the Creator; and 2) releasing a collab ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Big Boi's Outside Lands Set: Killed By DJ's Computer Malfunction
No show for Sir Lucious Left Foot It didn't seem to bode well for Big Boi's scheduled Outside Lands performance that the Atlanta rapper (and OutKast member) was arrested only days before on drug charges in Miami. In the end, Big Boi didn't end up playing in S.F. on Friday as scheduled -- but ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule
Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making! The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>
Music
May 25, 2011
A Guide to NorCal Music Festivals
Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making! The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Six Child Musicians It's Okay To Like. No, Really.
Remember that guy in OutKast that isn't Andre 3000? Big Boi is his name. Well, he's just announced some musical news that will probably make you frown, curl up your top lip and ask a bemused: "But why?" That's right! Try not to recoil at the fact that Big Boi has started a record la ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More
Three days of this for 2011!As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Three Minutes and Fourteen Seconds:A Musical Tribute to Pi Day
Mykl RoventineAs you probably already know, today is Pi Day, meaning March fourteenth is the closest we come on the American calendar to approximating 3.1415926&c. (Technically you should have been reading this at around 3:30 in the morning for maximum pi-precision, but like us you were proba ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
From Basics To Based: Grab One Hour of 'Dope' Bay Area Rap
Swag!Believe it or not, "Digital Underground" used to mean something other than that secret server farm 400 feet beneath South Park. Want proof? This just in from the Good Records blog, via Tumblin' Erb: Cities of Dope, an expertly mixed and surprisingly instructive hour of Bay Area rap.Jonny Pay ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
My Top 10 Tracks of 2010, Apparently a Good Year in S.F. Rock
All hail the Fresh & Onlys, local proprietors of one of my favorite songs of 2010.No, this isn't some not-so-sly effort at hometown boosterism. Three of my favorite songs from this year just happen to come from artists who nominally call S.F. home. Seriously. Anyway, some of the others on her ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Download a Free 8-Song Mashup of Big Boi and The Black Keys
If you like a little juxtaposition with your year-in-review jawns, we've got just the thing for you: The Brothers of Chico Dusty, an unbidden and inspired pileup of two very well-liked 2010 albums by The Black Keys and Big Boi, respectively. Why? Ah, but why not?
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Exclusive: DJ White Mike's 'Lights and Sounds' Mix
'Lights and Sounds Mixtape' ArtworkSan Francisco's DJ White Mike is the man behind this 40-minute mixtape of club-ready sonics, which he calls Lights and Sounds. We've certainly featured Mike and his Get Loose! shindig before, but this upbeat DJ set is something a tad different from the mixm ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Who Needs Andre? Big Boi's Tour of Hits Gets Regency Bouncing
Big Boi The Knux Camp-Lo September 23, 2010 @ The Regency Ballroom Better than: Having no members of OutKast show up.The question is: Big Boi or Andre 3000? It's a fun question, at least -- and perhaps an impossible one, because even though both members of the h ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Pick a Rhyme and Win Free Tickets to See Big Boi Thursday at Regency Ballroom
So what'll it be?What's the best Big Boi rhyme of all time? Pick an answer we like, and you could win tickets to see one half of OutKast Thursday (that's tomorrow, people) at Regency Ballroom. Your favorite line could be from an OutKast song, or from Big Boi's recent, exhaustively titled solo alb ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
What's With All The Misspelled Names in Hip-Hop?: An Examination
Chali 2naSo Chali 2na's coming to Yoshi's tonight. Dude may be the most likeable member of Jurassic 5, with his booming voice and salaam-to-that-ass demeanor, but he's also the one whose name mounts the most nihilistic assault on orthographic sensibility (distant second: Mark 7even). Not that th ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Janelle Monae Walks the Tightrope Again with Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B.
We can't wait to see Janelle Monae perform at our All Shook Down Music Festival later this month, but in the mean time she's given us something to tide us over: a revamped and remixed version of her video for "Tightrope," featuring Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. Less theatrical than the original "Tightrope" ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Stream This Now: Big Boi's New Album Puts Him Ahead of Andre 3000
If you're as old as I am, which isn't very old at all, you remember 2003 quite well. If you have a decent memory, you'll also remember that "Hey Ya!" by OutKast's Andre 3000 dominated the airwaves for that year and then some. Andre's album The Love Below was released at the same time as hi ... More >>
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June 19, 2010
Friday Night: How Could Erykah Badu Possibly Seem Exciting After Janelle Monae?
Tom FergusonErykah BaduErykah Badu Janelle Monae @The Paramount Theatre, Oakland June 17, 2010 Better than: Watching old Michael Jackson videos on repeat. (Well, maybe not.) There were seats all the way up to the front of the stage at the Paramount last night, and at first they seemed silly: A ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Good Rappers Who've Made Terrible Actors
The trend of rappers shifting into acting is nothing new, and in theory it makes sense. Both roles focus on emotive storytelling, right? Unfortunately, that transition isn't always a smooth one--a point hammered home repeatedly by the new film Just Wright, starring Queen Latifah and Common. It's 100 ... More >>
Calendar
March 17, 2010
Acrobatic Funk
The nimble artistry of Janelle Monáe.
Music
March 17, 2010
The nimble funkistry of Janelle Monáe
The nimble artistry of Janelle Monáe.
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Roost Uno of Lowbrow Sundays, Tipsy Tuesdays
Sometimes your set takes so long you've gotta pee your pants. Or so says DJ Roost Uno, who'd rather whiz on his leg than step away from the turntables. Luckily in his six years of keeping the party going Sunday nights at Delirium (and various other weeklies and events around town), Uno has yet to ... More >>
Music
August 5, 2009
Rock the Bells
Sometimes your set takes so long you've gotta pee your pants. Or so says DJ Roost Uno, who'd rather whiz on his leg than step away from the turntables. Luckily in his six years of keeping the party going Sunday nights at Delirium (and various other weeklies and events around town), Uno has yet to ... More >>
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June 8, 2009
Rock the Bells Announces Bay Area Dates
Rock the Bells 2007, San Francisco America's premier (and possibly only major) hip-hop touring festival, Rock the Bells, has announced the date and venue for the 2009 edition: August 9, at the Shoreline Auditorium in Mountain View. While ASD much prefers the parking lot of the stadium where the Gia ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
Rock the Bells Announces Lineup
EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kw ... More >>
Music
September 24, 2008
When ATLiens Attack
EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kw ... More >>
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June 14, 2007
Last Night: Whild Peach with Bayonics at Red Devil Lounge
EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kw ... More >>
Music
September 6, 2006
OutKast
Idlewild
Film
August 23, 2006
About a Boi
OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South
Music
July 12, 2006
Future-Funk Overlords
Gnarls Barkley test the One Ring theory
Music
December 17, 2003
2003: Year of the Wonka Record
For the year's 10 best records, go somewhere else. For the year's 10 best "Wonka Records," you've come to the right place.
Music
October 8, 2003
OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
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July 7, 1999
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