Subject: Chief Xcel

• LiveFEED: Rock the Bells, 2007!

  August 18, 2007

• Last night: Curumin at Slim's

  Curumin at Slim'sJanuary 22, 2009 Photos by EKAphotography Better Than: Watching Brazilian Football on Telemundo It was a triumphant night for Luciano Nakata Albuquerque, better known as Curumin. Flanked on stage by a handful of the Bay Area's musical and cultural tastemakers, the Brazilian samba-funkster created a steamy tropical paradise within the cozy environs of Slim's, despite the icky (and occasionally drizzling) weather outside the club. Curumin's Amazonian soul is beyond seduc

  January 23, 2009

• Waxing Brazilian

  January 21, 2009

• Let's Go to the Hip Hop

  December 19, 2007

• King Britt storms the turntables

  December 27, 2006

• Lips Like Sugar

  Honeycut sweetens soul-pop

  September 13, 2006

• Out of the Shadow

  The DJ who works out of S.F. has crafted both exquisite beats and a carefully cultivated mystique. Find out from him why the lush trip hop is being replaced by a local hyphy sound.

  September 13, 2006

• Blandalicious

  Hometown heroes Blackalicious achieve mediocrity with The Craft

  October 5, 2005

• Quannum Mechanics

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

  March 16, 2005

• A Hero Comes Along

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

  October 20, 2004

• Award Show Performers

  Thursday, October 21, 2004 at Ruby Skye

  October 20, 2004

• Fela Kuti

  The Underground Spiritual Game

  September 8, 2004

• Pranks for the Memories

  Harmon Leon's media adventures

  June 16, 2004

• Hear This

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

  April 28, 2004

• Blackalicious

  Blazing Arrow (MCA)

  April 24, 2002

• Riff Raff

  Goodbye to All That; Punk, Love, and Understanding; He Shall Be Released

  July 5, 2000

• Personality Crisis

  As commercial hip hop radio becomes tired, turf wars flicker out, and the underground diversifies, does the Bay Area have its own identity anymore?

  June 28, 2000

• Spirited Rhymes

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

  February 16, 2000

• Quannum Leap

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

  July 21, 1999

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

  October 17, 2007