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

Le Truc in a Delicious Collaboration with Alameda's Rock Wall Winery

The East Bay is the Rodney Dangerfield of the San Francisco Bay Area; it gets no respect from people in San Francisco, the people of the Peninsula, the people of the South Bay, and even people who live in the East Bay. Of course that doesn't mean it doesn't have something to bring to the table. In f ... More >>

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

What Are the Best-Selling Bay Area Singles of the Last 25 Years?

Compared to the relatively few big-selling Bay Area albums of the last quarter-century, there's a plethora of singles that have sold at least a half-million copies since 1987. Can you guess the Bay Area singles that have sold the most in the last 25 years? Here are the surprising answers: See Also: ... More >>

Top Five Things Oakland Spokesman MC Hammer Could Do To Improve His Hometown

Oakland, meet your new tourism ambassador: MC Hammer, famous rapper, man of Christ, former A's exec, and purveyor of some very goofy pantaloons. The man born Stanley Burrell was born and raised in East Oakland, so it's only natural that he'd by tapped by the city for a new campaign to counter its ra ... More >>

State Cuts Cal Grant Funding for Many For-Profit Schools

It took a destructive recession and a budget deficit even MC Hammer finds ridiculous, but California has slowed down the flow of tax-payer money to for-profit colleges. Yesterday, the California Student Aid Commission announced a sharp decrease in the number of schools eligible for Cal Grants: fo ... More >>

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir: Show Preview

List: Now That Ed Lee Is Really Mayor, What Will He Do?

​Now that he's no longer a "caretaker" mayor, what is Ed Lee's agenda?         *  Promise the Board of Supervisors that he won't seek re-election      *  Have Willie Brown's coffee ready at 8 a.m. sharp      *&n ... More >>

W. Kamau Bell: Stop Talking Shit About the Occupy Movement!

​San Francisco's W. Kamau Bell and his socio-political stand-up comedy sidekicks, Laughter Against the Machine, have traveled around the nation, making stops at six different Occupy Movement camps, including ones in Portland, San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans. And while he acknowledges he's ... More >>

Signal to Noise: A Look at Five New Tracks You Will Be Hearing on SF Dancefloors

Joy Orbison is one happy dude.​ Ever found yourself at a club without a clue as to what the DJ is playing? Signal to Noise is a brand new column that looks at the music that's currently being played (or that will be played) in San Francisco's many dance halls. For this week's inaugural edition ... More >>

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

MC Hammer Lines Up for Ed Lee in Ridiculous Music Video Featuring Ashkon, Will.i.am, Brian Wilson, and Willie Brown

Because only Ed Lee will restore Hammer's supply of apple butter. Or something.​ Well, "Too legit to quit" was a perfect out-of-the-box slogan for mayoral candidate Ed Lee, and apparently Bay Area rapper MC Hammer was happy to lend it to him. Hammer himself appears in this ridiculously cheesy ... More >>

MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Other Non-San Francisco Voters Shill for Ed Lee

By now you may already be recovering from watching the Ed Lee music video featuring MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Ashkon, Willie Brown and others. The video was funded in large part by Hammer's good pal and right-wing piñata du jour Ron Conway, as well as Sean Parker (who you may recall having paranoid ... More >>

Too Legit to Google: MC Hammer Is Starting a Search Engine

Finally: A search engine with moves like MC Hammer​In perhaps the greatest gift to headline writers unleashed on the blogosphere this minute, Bay Area hip-hop figurehead, ordained Christian minister, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass regular MC Hammer announced some curious news in S.F. this week ... More >>

What a Pushover

Saturday: MC Hammer, En Vogue, and Other East Bay Artists Reminisce at KBLX Stone Soul II

KBLX Stone Soul II Oct. 1, 2011 Sleep Train Pavilion Better than: Listening to KBLX for nine hours MC Hammer, the Oakland bred '90s pop star and early Twitter adopter, took to tweeting on Saturday night after his performance at the KBLX Stone Soul II concert in Concord: Lol .. The worst sound cre ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011: Robert Plant, Thurston Moore, Broken Social Scene, and More

Broken Social Scene is one of more than 90 acts playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year.​ The lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is out, and good luck figuring out whom to call the "headliner." For the festival's 11th year, organizers have put together another insane ... More >>

The Sounds of 2010

What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.

Please Don't Hurt 'Em: Hammer Beefs With Jay-Z

Now that we've made short work of Texas, it's apparently time to revive that age-old rap rivalry between the East and the West. So who's bringing the vitriol for the Left Coast? The Game? Ice Cube? Lil B? 2Pac's stepbrother Mopreme? Nope! It's Oakland rapper, dancer, entrepreneur, reality TV star, ... More >>

Texas Vs. San Francisco: the World Series of Music

The World Series is about much more than baseball. It's a clash of two cities, two regional cultures, two rabid groups of fans, two color schemes, two outlooks on drug policy, and much more. (We ain't even gonna go into politics.)Starting right now, we're also making the World Series about music. To ... More >>

Local Hiring Protesters Shadow UCSF Hospital Groundbreaking

Protesters outside the UCSF VIP groundbreaking on Tuesday​This week, UCSF Mission Bay held groundbreaking ceremonies for its new children's, women's, and cancer hospitals -- a $1.5 billion complex being built on the edge of a neighborhood with the highest unemployment in San Francisco.Proponents o ... More >>

If You Cheered Barry Bonds, Philly Sportswriter Thinks You're Stupid

Dude can't not make news​Love him or hate him, the story of Barry Lamar Bonds is forever entwined with that of the San Francisco Giants. It was Bonds's star appeal that helped build AT&T Park (now a model for urban stadium design); Bonds broke all of baseball's home run records and became (pos ... More >>

KMEL's Summer Jam breaks hot local artists

Five Bay Area Hip-Hop Stars Who Should Be Really Stinkin' Rich

Is this what it takes?​On Tuesday, Forbes published its list of hip-hop's 20 highest earners: Jay-Z at number one, naturally, with $63 million, and Senegalese crooner Akon edging out Lil Wayne by a milli -- Weezy's cash-accruing steez have been impressively unabated by his recent jail sentenc ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Caroliner @ the Lab (Sat. and Sun.)​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Golden Gate Park (Fri.-Sun.)Wait, what? Steve Martin and MC Hammer and Neko Case and Steve Earle? Yeah, it's the city's biggest free hootenanny with a cross section of roots music fans. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today at 10: ... More >>

Hammer, from the waist down

Do the Humpty Dance, Score a Free Beer

Impersonate the original big-nosed rapper, get sloshed.​Eater SF reports on a pretty funky freebie in its "Dealfeed": Head on over to Showdogs (1020 Market at 6th) today, perform the "Humpty Dance" (as imagined by legendary Oakland rap group Digital Underground), and you will score a beer on the h ... More >>

Rafael Casal and Mistah F.A.B. give props to modern Yay Area communication

August Book Events: Joyce Maynard, Goth Hop, Hillwide Garage Sale, Melanie Gideon, Josh Healey

Mrs. Hammer Can Cook

aetv.com You can't touch Mrs. Hammer in the kitchen.Last night saw the television debut of Hammertime, a reality show that follows Oakland native MC Hammer and his large family. With five children and one nephew living under their Tracy roof, Hammer's wife Stephanie Burrell spends a lot of ti ... More >>

Netta B. Freaks Berkeley, Oakland, SF

Erban Image PhotographySex Shooter: Netta BrielleBay Area R&B/Hip-hop singer/MC Netta B  (aka Netta Brielle) is on fire. Her new video "Dirty Boyz" premieres today, and tonight, she headlines "Electrik Rebel Sounds: The Concert" at La Pena in Berkeley. On Saturday, you can catch her at O ... More >>

Friday Night: Chuck Norris Party at Milk Bar

Hardly Strictly's outlaws hold a S.F. roundtable

Last Night: Mortified at the Make-Out Room

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The View From My Liver

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Department of What the Fuck?

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A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

Hyooj in '05

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House Of Tudor

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