NasThe Warfield
November 28, 2008
Notes by Jackie Lopez
Better Than: The "Untitled" Album (and that album is pretty amazing).
Nas has been rocking the hip-hop crowd since 1992; that's saying a lot considering the game has been changing and he's managed to stay on top. In 1998, he joined Lauryn Hill in telling us how it would be if they ruled the world. In 2006, he informed us that hip-hop was dead - but it was far from it at the Warfield Friday night. A line of men in puff jackets and Timberla
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Kev ChoiceLevende LoungeMarch 11, 2009Better Than: watching reruns of Lost.Most hip-hop open mics are dingy, dusty affairs offering plenty of underground flavor in basement-like settings. Upscale restaurant-lounges used to be reserved for jazz trios.But We All We Got, a new Wednesday night talent showcase, breaks both molds by taking place at Levende, an upper Mission St. locale where the décor can accurately be described as "posh."EKAphotography
The evening started with select
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If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and soul (besides SF's Biscuits and Blues and Hayward's The Bistro). The cancellation of the SF Blues Festival earlier this year might have seemed to sound a death knell for the venerable genre; one of the
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