Chief Xcel

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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 ... More >>

Waxing Brazilian

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 ... More >>

Let's Go to the Hip Hop

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 ... More >>

King Britt storms the turntables

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 ... More >>

Lips Like Sugar

Honeycut sweetens soul-pop

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.

Blandalicious

Hometown heroes Blackalicious achieve mediocrity with The Craft

Quannum Mechanics

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

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

Fela Kuti

The Underground Spiritual Game

Pranks for the Memories

Harmon Leon's media adventures

Hear This

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

Blackalicious

Blazing Arrow (MCA)

Riff Raff

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

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?

Spirited Rhymes

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

Quannum Leap

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

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

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

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 >>