Carl Craig

Drink: Beat Happening: A Guide to the S.F. Nightlife Renaissance

Weekend Parties: Lights Down Low Celebrates Six Years, Tim Sweeney and Rebolledo at Monarch, Carl Craig Returns, and More

Well, San Francisco, this time around you're in it for the long haul. From megaparties to videotheques, this weekend's festivities have something for just about everyone. For dance music fans, it's a rare time when choices and sacrifices will need to be made. But that's enough preamble, let's get in ... More >>

Weekend Parties: 222 Hyde Reopens, DJ Hell at Public Works, Martin Buttrich at Mighty, and Haçeteria at Deco

We hope you had a refreshing time working all week, because this weekend's going to be hectic. It almost doesn't seem fair, does it? Just when you thought you had time to relax, the city's summerish winter nights begin calling you with their siren-like promises of good times, good tunes, and other g ... More >>

Lost in the Night: Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson Struggle at Public Works

Kahley Avalon EmersonDerrick May and Kevin Saunderson at Public Works on Saturday night. ​ Hi Tek Soul Public Works Nov. 12, 2011 Better than: Actually watching Max Headroom. The history of dance music is littered with church metaphors. Sometimes this can be literal -- for instance, last we ... More >>

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

Kahley Avalon EmersonDerrick May and Kevin Saunderson at Public Works on Saturday night. ​ Hi Tek Soul Public Works Nov. 12, 2011 Better than: Actually watching Max Headroom. The history of dance music is littered with church metaphors. Sometimes this can be literal -- for instance, last we ... More >>

Lost in the Night: Carl Craig Plays a Secret Party at an Oakland Church

Carl Craig at a party in Oakland on Friday. All photos by Kahley Avalon Emerson.​ Carl Craig Nov. 4, 2011 A church in Oakland Better than: Not seeing Carl Craig. Few things compel me to drive around canvassing churches in Oakland at midnight. Yet that's exactly what I found myself doing last ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar: Show Preview

Carl Craig at a party in Oakland on Friday. All photos by Kahley Avalon Emerson.​ Carl Craig Nov. 4, 2011 A church in Oakland Better than: Not seeing Carl Craig. Few things compel me to drive around canvassing churches in Oakland at midnight. Yet that's exactly what I found myself doing last ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Devil Inside

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Syclops

I've Got My Eye on You (DFA)

It's ladies' afternoon at El Rio

I've Got My Eye on You (DFA)

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

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

Bouncer

How to respond to a highly expensive, utterly dead night at the Levende Lounge? Go back!

BeatBox

Big names with big record bags are coming through town: Carl Craig, Jesse Saunders, Roy Davis Jr., and Donald Glaude

Rise of the Machines

Some say electronica's dead. We say Tadd Mullinix could be what's next.

Father Figure

Oakland DJ Moda plays proud papa to local audiences, deck jockeys -- and his career

Perpetual Movement

Not content to simply milk his invention, trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

The Re-Rebirth of Cool

Jonah Sharp, aka Spacetime Continuum, strives to uncover the meeting point of jazz and techno

Depth Charge

Jonah Sharp, aka Spacetime Continuum, strives to uncover the meeting point of jazz and techno

Unextended Play

Putting the compact back in compact disc