James Lavelle

SF cries UNKLE in October

War Stories Drains the UNKLE Treasury

James Lavelle Spins at Mighty in Oct.

Lavelle’s Yer UNKLE

Good old Unkle James

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.

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Quannum Mechanics

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

The Laws of Entropy

Davis' DJ Shadow breaks it down

Beat Box

Davis' DJ Shadow breaks it down

Poleng Lounge to Close in Jan., Anna's Jazz Island Closed

Poleng Lounge, soon to be R.I.P.​January is a bad month for pink slips. Not only have I been getting multiple goodbye emails from publicists laid off from their jobs at the labels in the past week, but now I'm getting word about local venues that are shuttering in 2010. The biggest among them is P ... More >>

Conversing on Choreography

Poleng Lounge, soon to be R.I.P.​January is a bad month for pink slips. Not only have I been getting multiple goodbye emails from publicists laid off from their jobs at the labels in the past week, but now I'm getting word about local venues that are shuttering in 2010. The biggest among them is P ... More >>

DJ Shadow Reviews His Own Discography

DJ Shadow​This week, DJ Shadow released his fourth solo studio album, The Less You Know, The Better. Featuring cameos from Little Dragon, De La Soul, Talib Kweli and Tom Vek, Shadow insists that the album isn't just a snapshot of where he's at as a musician in 2011, but also something that wil ... More >>