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Z-Trip: Show Preview

Z-Trip's Show This Saturday at the Warfield Is Canceled

Not this Saturday...​ Just got word from the publicity folks that this Saturday's show at the Warfield -- featuring Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, and Daddy Kev -- has been canceled. Which is a bummer: we were excited enough about this lineup that we previewed it in this week's issue.

The Cool Kids: Cool with Recording for Mountain Dew

Not this Saturday...​ Just got word from the publicity folks that this Saturday's show at the Warfield -- featuring Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, and Daddy Kev -- has been canceled. Which is a bummer: we were excited enough about this lineup that we previewed it in this week's issue.

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

Not this Saturday...​ Just got word from the publicity folks that this Saturday's show at the Warfield -- featuring Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, and Daddy Kev -- has been canceled. Which is a bummer: we were excited enough about this lineup that we previewed it in this week's issue.

Saturday Night: De La Soul Celebrates Saturdays, Old Age at Yoshi's

Tamara PalmerDe La Soul at Yoshi's.​De La Soul April 2, 2011 @ Yoshi's SF Better than: Spending Saturday with people who do not have an awesome song called "(A Roller Skating Jam Named) Saturdays." De La Soul posted up at Yoshi's this past Friday and Saturday, performing two short sets eac ... More >>

Monday Morning Hangover: Hearts and Soul

So, last weekend was Valentine's Day Weekend. Which means that people who weren't coupled up and doing something all barfy-cute were using it as an opportunity to hook-up. (Because nothing is more fun than waking up on Feb. 14 and wondering whether or not it's appropriate to wish your conquest a hap ... More >>

Friday Night: De La Soul at Yoshi's

​De La Soul Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 Yoshi's Better Than: the winter Olympics De La Soul is so well regarded for its laid-back grooves that its emcees don't always get the credit they deserve for microphone mastery. Friday night at Yoshi's, Maseo, Pos and Dave the Dove achieved total command of the ... More >>

Souls of Mischief embrace the Prince Paul regime

​De La Soul Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 Yoshi's Better Than: the winter Olympics De La Soul is so well regarded for its laid-back grooves that its emcees don't always get the credit they deserve for microphone mastery. Friday night at Yoshi's, Maseo, Pos and Dave the Dove achieved total command of the ... More >>

Souls of Mischief Announce Montezuma's Revenge

Steve LopezMontezuma's Revenge Cover Art​ Legendary Oakland hip-hop group Souls of Mischief yesterday announced the forthcoming release of their new album, Montezuma's Revenge. Produced by the equally-legendary Prince Paul (De La Soul, Gravediggaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School), the album fea ... More >>

De La Soul

Steve LopezMontezuma's Revenge Cover Art​ Legendary Oakland hip-hop group Souls of Mischief yesterday announced the forthcoming release of their new album, Montezuma's Revenge. Produced by the equally-legendary Prince Paul (De La Soul, Gravediggaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School), the album fea ... More >>

Outside Lands Asks Public for Headliner Suggestions

Now that the Beastie Boys have pulled out of Outside Lands, announcing the bad news that MCA has to undergo treatment for cancer of the parotid (salivary) gland, the festival has turned to the public to ask what artists should be considered as replacements for Sunday night's big finale. Outside Land ... More >>

Prince Paul Plays PST

Prince Paul Legendary producer Prince Paul (De La Soul/Gravediggaz/Handsome Boy Modeling School/Stetsasonic) drops through 330 Ritch's "PST" tonight for a rare DJ set.In case you don't know, PP is the guy who basically invented the alt.rap genre with his wacky, bugged-out production work on De La's ... More >>

PST Anniversary Party Tonight @ 330 Ritch

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Alice Russell

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

Rock the Bells, Burning Man Fashion, Best Buck in the Bay: Your Monday Morning Hangover

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

Too $hort To Be Celebrated at VH1 Hip Hop Honors

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

Mos Def Joins Paid Dues Line-up

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas Headline Annual Rock the Bells Festival

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

Reggae, raw funk, and Afro-Latin grooves are "Hella Tight"

EKAphotographyDJ, DeeJay: Sake One and Willie Maize Has it been four years of DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" already? Apparently, time flies when you're spinning dope tunes--both classic and soon-to-be classic--and hosting legendary guest DJs, up-and-coming live acts, and otherwise putting t ... More >>

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1015 Folsom hosts some of the city's best house DJs; the Beat Junkies' DJ Rhettmatic stops by "Flava of the Month"

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John Legend and De La Soul party on till the brink of dawn. Prog-psych rockers Datetenryu bring the noise from Japan

BeatBox

"Gay Bash" at Trax toys with your queer biological imperative; Digable Planets do the "all original members" thing

Gorillaz

Demon Days

Best Classic Music Venues

Demon Days

75 Degrees

The Last Great Hip Hop Album

Merry Christmas, Beeyotch!

Forget caroling. Here are a few hip hop jammy-jams to warm your yule log.

Musical Theater

A striking performance

Best Live-Music Venue

The Independent

Hear This

The "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" may be long behind us, but De La Soul's hip hop still smells like roses

BeatBox

Sound Kills You: Monolake and Deadbeat get freaky on a 10-plus-channel system

Prince Paul

Politics of the Business

We Are the Concert

Big huge music/activism fest

DJ Spinna

Here to There

MC Paul Barman

Paullelujah!

Brooklyn Prophet

Mos Def adds positive new dimensions to hip hop

Rapper's Delight

The history of hip hop, at Yerba Buena Center

Beat Scientist

Experimental rapper Doseone is too weird for the hip hop faithful -- but indie rockers love him

SF Weekly Wammies 2000

Your choices of the top local bands

Playing to the Crowd

The word is not dead

Changing the True School

Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

Slum Village

Fantastic, Vol. 2
(GoodVibe)

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Black Eyed Peas

Rhyme Schemes

With an acclaimed single and album behind him, San Mateo rapper Rasco remains underground -- which is just fine with him

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With an acclaimed single and album behind him, San Mateo rapper Rasco remains underground -- which is just fine with him

Live

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