Blackalicious

Converse to Host Free Shows By Hot Chip, Mastodon, Suicidal Tendencies, More

Behold, another new vista in the world of band-brand intertwining: A shoe company hosting free shows by famous bands and holding a lottery to decide who gets in. Maybe that's not completely unheard-of, exactly, but this level of it is new to S.F. Your favorite maker of Chuck Taylors is holding a con ... More >>

Latyrx: Show Preview

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

Gift of Gab: Struggling Through Diabetes, But Showing No Sign of Slowing Down

When Gift of Gab recorded his latest solo album The Next Logical Progression, which drops today, he had no idea that his health was on the decline. The rapper born Timothy Parker's Type 1 diabetes has caused issues in the past -- including the need for eye surgery in 2003 -- but for the most part he ... More >>

The Top Five Classics From Quannum, the Bay Area Hip-Hop Collective

Lateef the Truthspeaker performs at Mighty tonight.​ With a line-up that includes cut-and-paste maestro DJ Shadow, innovative rap duo Blackalicious, and the spirited funk styles of Latryx, the Quannum collective is a Bay Area institution. Since its inception in the early '90s, the creative cre ... More >>

Jazz Mafia's Adam Theis on the Group's New Hip-Hop Symphony, Performing with Blackalicious, and More

Jazz Mafia's Shotgun Wedding Quintet, with MC Dublin in the middle, and Adam Theis on the far right.​ Whatever you're doing this weekend, we can pretty much guarantee that the members of the Jazz Mafia are doing more. The S.F. jazz collective's hip-hop outfit, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, is serving a ... More >>

James Syhabout and Hawker Fare: Anatomy of a Scoop

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. star5112/FlickrJames Syhabout.​Grub Street's Jay Barman set off the equivalent of a stalkerazzi scuffle to catch a limo-glimpse of the Bieber when he broke word Wednesday that Commis chef J ... More >>

Target Christmas Album: Best Coast/Wavves, Blackalicious, Jason Schwartzman et al. Hock Holiday Cheer

Don't they know it's Christmas? Seriously. Are they aware?​Now that it's December, the merchants of the world have declared open season on premature holiday festivities, turning life into the cultural equivalent of that house on your block that puts up Halloween decorations in August. Target (pron ... More >>

SXSW 2010 Showgoers' Guide to Bay Area Acts

Local Frequency: Bay Area Artist Q&A w/ General Elektriks

​Hervé "RV" Salters is best known locally as the keyboardist from Honeycut and a frequent collaborator with fellow Quannum Projects mates Blackalicious. A few years ago, while on downtime from Honeycut, Salters decided to record his first solo effort, Cliquety Kliqk, under the moniker General El ... More >>

Gift of Gab’s talent sidetracks his solo missions

Free Music Outside of Outside Lands: Bang the Drum

Joseph Schell​Those who didn't have bling to spare on Outside Lands festival tickets got their own impressive lineup for free yesterday afternoon at the Bang the Drum celebration at Peacock Meadows in Golden Gate Park. Big names at Bang the Drum included Naughty By Nature, Tash, Q-Bert, Hieroglyph ... More >>

Gift of Gab Announces New Solo Record

​ Today, Blackalicious emcee Gift of Gab announced the October 27 release of his second solo album. Imaginatively-titled Escape 2 Mars, the new record features guest appearances by Del the Funky Homosapien, Brother Ali, Honeycut vocalist Bart Davenport, Joyo Velarde and fellow Mighty Underdog Lat ... More >>

The Drum Celebrates 25 Years

Kevvy Kev (r) and friend​ KZSU DJ Kevvy Kev  is the Yoda of hip-hop - a wise Jedi of boom-bap who has been a constant force in supporting the music and the culture since anyone can remember. On Saturday, August 30, Kevvy Kev presides over the 25th Anniversary of The Drum, which he calls "the ... More >>

Notes on Brass, Bows and Beats @ Yoshi's

Bill EvansIt's the Symphony: Brass, Bows, & Beats​A few thoughts from the Jazz Mafia's Brass, Bows & Beats show at SF Yoshi's (which plays again tonight and tomorrow): • Holy shit, that's a lot of people on stage! (an unofficial head count numbered about 30 musicians). • B, B & B ... More >>

The Mighty Underdogs

Droppin' Science Fiction (Definitive Jux)

Last Night: Rock the Bells at Shoreline Amphitheatre

Mos Def Joins Paid Dues Line-up

Paid Dues Tour Brings Hieroglyphics, Blackalicious, Sage Francis to Berkeley in June

Mike Relm: From "Back in Black" to Blue Man Group

Halou Releases Digital EP Feb. 12

Let's Go to the Hip Hop

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

LiveFEED: Rock the Bells, 2007!

Pigeon John, Marc Broussard, Bowling For Soup -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, August 16

Lifesavas

Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack (Quannum)

King Britt storms the turntables

Lips Like Sugar

Honeycut sweetens soul-pop

The Blind Boys of Alabama

Atom Bomb

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Blandalicious

Hometown heroes Blackalicious achieve mediocrity with The Craft

General Elektriks

Cliquety Kliqk

Quannum Mechanics

The amazingly true tale of the Bay Area's greatest hip hop success story

Planet Party

One-stop New Year's Eve shopping

A Hero Comes Along

The lowest-profile member of the lauded Quannum crew, MC Lateef, finds the spotlight on Ambush

Award Show Performers

Thursday, October 21, 2004 at Ruby Skye

Lady Film Fest

Watch out! It's a MadCat!

Fela Kuti

The Underground Spiritual Game

Pranks for the Memories

Harmon Leon's media adventures

Best Hip Hop Label

Quannum Projects

Hear This

San Francisco's venerable Qunnaum Projects rounds up its entire roster for a landmark hip hop show

Boogie Nights

For a band that isn't "commercial-sounding," scoring a movie is a boon

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

DJ Shadow

The Private Press (MCA)

Blackalicious

Blazing Arrow (MCA)

Spirited Rhymes

It took four years for Blackalicious to make its second album. It's been worth the wait.

Riff Raff

Might We Suggest Hype! II: Electric Boogaloo? and Listing Toward San Francisco

Quannum Leap

Growing out of Oakland's Solesides label, the rappers and producers of Quannum Projects look to expand even further