Subject: Boots Riley

• Winehouse Cancels on SF: We have rehabs here too, Amy!

  August 21, 2007

• Boots Riley's CoupTV Makes Revolution Come Quicker

  October 2, 2007

• The Coup's Boots Riley Charged with "Abusive Language"

  June 27, 2008

• Special Guests Announced For Tom Morello's Slim's Show

  EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Against the Machine) and becoming the first American rock band to play a free show in Cuba (with Audioslave). Morello's kept the revolutionary fervor stoked with his solo project, The Nightwatchman, which

  March 5, 2009

• Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani and Damian Kulash

  Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March  26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at the crowd and said, "Let me remind you, you all paid $15 to get in tonight. That's like a buck a superstar." Actually, if you were gonna  do the math, by the end of the night, we'd been entertai

  March 26, 2009

• High Sierra Fest Announces Lineup

  EKAphotographyGalactic (with guest emcee Boots Riley) at the Fillmore, 2007 We've enjoyed summer-like weather the past few days here in the Bay Area, so what better time to announce a summertime music and camping festival? Today, the High Sierra Music Festival, which takes place July 2-5 in Quincy (Plumas County - about four hours from SF) announced its 2009 lineup, which looks promising indeed. While High Sierra typically leans heavily on folk and nu-Americana acts, festival organizers have lan

  April 6, 2009

• Tom Morello and Boots Riley rage as one in Street Sweeper

  April 1, 2009

• Schedule Outside Lands trip with playlists of our favorite artists

  August 20, 2008

• The Demise of Hyphy

  February 20, 2008

• The Bus Stops Here

  Mistah F.A.B. picks up where hyphy left off

  May 30, 2007

• It Was a Year Of ...

  Well, lots of things, actually

  December 20, 2006

• SF Weekly Music Awards: Winner's Circle

  October 25, 2006

• Hip Hop 101: the Underdogs/Alt-Rock 101: the Secret of Their Overseas Success/ DJ Culture 101: the Critical Mash Honors Club

  October 18, 2006

• Weapons of Mass Construction

  Oakland's Coup takes political rap to the next level

  April 12, 2006

• > Activist hip hop act the Coup previews its upcoming album; Hawtin homie John Acquaviva brings his techno to Ruby Skye

  November 9, 2005

• The Paminator

  DJ "I rule the school"

  March 30, 2005

• DJ Zeph

  Sunset Scavenger

  August 25, 2004

• Sonic Dissidents

  Stop Bush! Stop the Republicans! Slackers unite: It's time, once again, to "Rock the Vote."

  October 8, 2003

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

  A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

  October 16, 2002

• Dial 510-Hip-Hop

  The Cali Comm tour brings the region's best hip hop talent under one roof

  November 21, 2001

• Black Rage

  May 17, 2000

• Guerilla Funk Releases Two New Albums

  Hard Truth: T-K.A.S.H. in AustraliaThough the postponement of the Hard Truth Soldiers Tour--featuring acts signed to Paris' Guerilla Funk label, along with national artists like Pete Rock, dead prez, Planet Asia, Immortal Technique and Kam--was disappointing, that hasn't deterred the indie label from releasing new music. Yesterday, May 12, the new album from Paris/Boots Riley protégé (and KPFA radio host) T-K.A.S.H. was released. I've yet to hear the album--maybe my review copy was also po

  May 13, 2009

• Reactions to Michael Jackson's Death (Pt. 1): Lyrics Born, Sake 1 & More

  Let's Remember Him This Way When a pop culture icon passes, it's never a happy thing. The death of Michael Jackson has definitely sent shivers through the urban community, most of whom revered MJ's music, which was an essential soundtrack for most of their lives. Well, up until Bad, at least. But this is no time for humor. This is a time for remembrance. When ASD heard about Jackson's passing, we quickly asked local DJs, label owners, artists, and authors for their reactions. Sterling James,

  June 26, 2009

• Outside Lands Day Two: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta

  EKAphotography​Outside Lands Day 2: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, & more, Saturday, August 20, 2009.Better Than: sitting in the park, waiting for you.The first day of Outside Lands was a huge freakin' success, especially if you stayed at the Twin Peaks stage (like I did). The opening night salvo of Zap Mama-Midnite-Q.Tip-Thievery Corporation was a potent one, to be sure. But how would Day Two line up? First of all, unlike the first day, there

  August 30, 2009

• Dead Prez Boots Riley Tonight @Black Dot

  EKAphotographyRBGz at YBG: dead prez @G4G's solar-powered concert​ Outside Lands, Shmoutside Lands. The hundreds of folks who came out to Yerba Buena Gardens to see dead prez and Mistah F.A.B. perform for free yesterday may have gotten a better deal than the tens of thousands who shelled out $90 to see M.I.A., Lucinda Williams, the Dead Weather, and Tenacious D. I'm not saying that just because - full disclosure - I worked the PR for this event, a solar-powered hip-hop concert presented by Gr

  August 31, 2009

• Outside Lands Post-Script

  EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron's Aidin Vaziri noted the lack of "urgency in the air" for big-ticket headliners, but added that the event itself was the event: "unlike last time, when people stampeded for hot commodities like Radio

  September 1, 2009

• The Return of the Coup

  EKAphotographyBoots Riley at Outside Lands, 2009​ It's been a minute since Oakland's legendary hip-hop group the Coup last played its hometown - nine years in fact, according to frontman and primary songwriter Boots Riley. In that time, the group has played SF and Berkeley -"We did a kind of rehearsal at Black New World 2 years ago," Boots recalls -but Friday's gig at the New Parish is their first "legitimate" O-Town gig since 2000, he says. In that time, Boots has busied himself by going

  October 12, 2009

• Last Night: Saul Williams, Earl Greyhound, and American Fangs at the Independent

  Saul Williams's facepaint resembled a dolphin crossed with the Star Trek logo​Saul Williams, Earl Greyhound, American Fangs November 10, 2009 The Independent Better Than: Gym Class Heroes, or 2009 David Bowie With a head full of feathers and his face painted like a glittering Star Trek dolphin, experimental polymath Saul Williams exploded his latest witchcraft, the "Niggy Tardust Experience", all over The Independent Tuesday night. Williams served labyrinthine raps between games of space-c

  November 11, 2009