Lauryn Hill

10 Ways to Refer to the Hells Angels Other Than an "Outlaw Gang"

By Metal Cowgirl A Nevada judge is putting her foot down in a San Francisco Hells Angels murder case, telling attorneys that they are no longer allowed to refer to the group as an outlaw gang or a motorcycle club, fearing they would not get the fair trial they deserve. But because the Angels prid ... More >>

Lauryn Hill Announces Intimate Show This Weekend at the Independent

Gotta love Lauryn Hill's penchant for last-minute announcements. The beloved and mercurial R&B singer will be in town next week for a show Nov. 19 at the Fox Oakland with Nas, but that won't be her only local appearance: Hill just announced show at the 500-capacity Independent in S.F. this weekend.

KCRW's Jeremy Sole on the Importance of Radio and His Addiction to "Black Crack"

Between saturating airwaves with his weekly soul and funk show on KCRW, and throwing an underground party known as theLIFT, Chicago-born DJ/producer/remixer/host Jeremy Sole is a busy and influential artist in the Los Angeles music scene. As a teen growing up in Chicago, inspiration came from his fa ... More >>

Live Review, 8/25/12: The '80s Babies and Their New Faves Rule Rock The Bells

Rock The Bells Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 Shoreline Amphitheatre Better than: Partying with your own demographic Rock The Bells is the only annual hip-hop festival to manage the difficult feat of attracting a truly diverse and multi-generational crowd. In its fifth year in the Bay Area (and ninth ove ... More >>

Live Review, 2/16/12: Lauryn Hill Leads a Rollercoaster of a Night at the Warfield

Lauryn Hill Feb. 16, 2012 The Warfield Better than: Almost anyone else who had a hit record in 1998 performing it in 2012, probably. For the last decade, loving Lauryn Hill has been a little like being in an emotionally abusive relationship. You forgive her when she's bratty or messy or mean, you ... More >>

Bump & Grind: The Top Five Pregnant Performances

​What the hell is up with the tabloids and pregnancies? Usually when a lady celebrity has so much as a big lunch, or gets photographed from a bad angle, they announce that an offspring is probably imminent. And here's Beyonce Knowles, being totally upfront about her and Jay-Z's baby-to-be, rubbing ... More >>

Consciousness vs. Sex: Jean Grae and the Plight of the Underground Female Rapper

Jean Grae​ Jean Grae, who performs tonight at the New Parish, is a very talented rapper. That's not just a very talented female rapper, but a very talented hip-hop artist who deserves to be considered on nothing more than her own lyrical merits, and shouldn't be given some sort of a rap pass d ... More >>

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

Rock the Bells Brings Classic Hip-Hop Debuts to the Stage

Before Kreayshawn: 10 Underrated and/or Forgotten Female MCs

Kreashawn: Oakland's latest female rap sensation.​Last week, around the fifth time someone sent me a link to Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci," I started having a feeling toward the diminutive rapper that was not entirely positive. This discomfort grew a few days later, when she reportedly signed a $ ... More >>

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

Lauryn Hill Is Playing a One-Off Tribute to Bob Marley In S.F. Next Week

Kevin HendersonShe's baaaack​ Last month it was a regular ol' concert at the Warfield, followed a day later by a crazy last-minute late-night show with Dave Chappelle in Oakland. And next week Lauryn Hill comes back to the Bay Area for something else altogether: A special tribute to her longti ... More >>

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

Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle Drop a Surprise Late-Night Show on Oakland

Lauryn Hill at the New Parish last night.​Lauryn HillDave ChappelleApril 13, 2011 (Actually April 14)@ The New Parish, OaklandBetter than: A good night's sleepWhen the news hit Twitter Wednesday afternoon, it seemed like a prank: Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle had announced a last-minute show at t ... More >>

Last Night's Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle Show Was Every Bit the Crazy Last-Minute Idea it Seemed

Truly a last-minute affair​Everyone's been asking us today: How is it that a Lauryn Hill/Dave Chappelle show actually happened last night, anyway? And, frankly we wondered ourselves -- all we saw beforehand were the announcement Tweets like the rest of you. Being the journalistically inclined folk ... More >>

Hells Angels: Are They Lauryn Hill Fans?

Fans of Harleys...and Lauryn Hill?​The police told us a strange new twist in the caper of the Hells Angels attack on Market Street last night. The Angels and their soon-to-be victims had been at a show at the Warfield, says Sergeant Michael Andraychak. Well, Tuesday night's show was none other tha ... More >>

Former Record Exec Steve Stoute Trashes the Grammys in Full-Page NYT Ad -- And He's Got a Point

Gaga at the Grammys​Steve Stoute, an industry executive famous in hip-hop circles for managing Nas and beefing with Diddy, isn't happy with the way the Grammys turned out last week. In fact, he's so mad that he took out a full page ad in the New York Times to air his grievances with the award show ... More >>

Richmond rapper Erk Tha Jerk says melody is key to mainstream success

The Park provides solid rhythm and a safe playspace

What to Do? Wednesday's Pick: The Park at Mojito

​The Park is probably the best San Francisco band you didn't know you've heard. With its knack for modern updates of the vintage soul, jazz, and funk sounds hip-hop producers have sampled for years, the trio has lately kept busy working on critically acclaimed albums and live shows by cult early-' ... More >>

Last Night: Nneka at Red Devil Lounge

​Nneka January 27, 2010 Red Devil Lounge Better Than: the State of the Union, or the Nigerian underwear bomber Berlin-based Nigerian Nneka delivered an intimate scolding to the crowd Wednesday, while moving them to jerk knees and hips to her radical Afro-funk ballads and ciphers. The chiseled-fac ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A w/ DJ D Sharp (Lyrics Born, Lauryn Hill, Quannum)

​DJ D Sharp can hang with the big names--spinning at Dwayne Wade's birthday party, or as part of Kanye West's and Lauryn Hill's performances. But when he's not keeping the celebs happy at home or touring the world, he also holds down residencies on both sides of the Bay four nights a week, and tha ... More >>

More Musician Deaths: Teddy Pendergrass and The Coup's Bassist Dewey Tucker

Teddy Pendergrass​The superstition is that deaths come in threes, and one day after Jay Reatard, two more musicians made the news this morning, one of them in the Bay Area. Philly soulman Teddy Pendergrass died at age 59 last night of complications related to colon cancer. And Spinner.com reports ... More >>

Kev Choice’s song a day series gives Bay Area concerns a beat

Music Awards Program Guide

Leah Tysse Makes Her Yoshi's Debut

Leah Tysse 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 s ... More >>

Softly, Sweetly

Last Night: Kev Choice at We All We Got

EKAphotography 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 ... More >>

Friday Night: Nas at the Warfield

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 Hil ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Italians Always Do It Better: Joakim and Glass Candy

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

MF Doom: Echoes of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill's "Train Wreck" Concert at Paramount Theatre UPDATE

Leon Russell, Lauryn Hill, Biz Markie -- ASD's Live Music Picks, June 27

French electro-rock luminary Richard Pinhas graces the States

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Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

House of Tudor

Do the funky robot with Lost Sounds, then short-circuit your tear ducts with Portugal's fado diva Mariza

Laugh, or We Kill the Lobster

Ben Westhoff gets inside the odd mix of cerebral and naughty humor that's taken S.F. comedy troupe Killing My Lobster to the edge of national fame

Smooth Operator

Goapele wants to be a soul star, without all the major-label headaches

Into the Mystic

After more than a decade of struggles, is Mystic ready for mainstream hip hop success?

The House of Tudor

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Redemption Song

The Fugees mark a return to righteousness in hip hop