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May 31, 2009
Last Night: The Roots at Davies Symphony Hall
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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February 4, 2008
Most Popular Stories on SFWeekly.com This Week
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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January 31, 2008
Most Popular Stories on SFWeekly.com This Week
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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February 10, 2008
Mojave Desert Mystery Deepens with Clutchy Hopkins' New Ubiquity Release 'Walking Backwards'
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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March 4, 2008
New Gnarls Barkley Single Leaked by Roots' ?uestlove
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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March 19, 2008
The Roots Get Political on New Album due in April
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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March 25, 2008
Al Green Gets ?uestlove to Produce New Album
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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June 16, 2008
Al Green Visits Sleep Train in Sept.
The RootsDavies Symphony HallBetter than: Sitting still for an orchestraLocal music history was made last night as the Roots performed the first-ever hip-hop concert at Davies Symphony Hall as part of SFJAZZ's Spring season. The Philadelphia-bred, Grammy Award-winning group plays in your living room ... More >>
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December 5, 2008
Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Mr. E
One of the most respected DJs to grace the Bay Area, Miguel Escobedo has been manning the decks for over two decades. The resident DJ for San Francisco's Rock the Bells tour stop, he's one of the most sought out vinyl spinners when national artists are looking for local support. Coming up in the g ... More >>
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April 6, 2009
Questlove at PST Tuesday Night
Natty and Nappy: Questlove Tuesday nights haven't traditionally been the most happening club nights around--that honor is usually reserved for the weekend (or Thursday, for locals wary of bridge-and-tunnelers). But Great Gosh A-mighty if DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" at 330 Ritch hasn't comp ... More >>
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January 28, 2009
Capitol MC
Natty and Nappy: Questlove Tuesday nights haven't traditionally been the most happening club nights around--that honor is usually reserved for the weekend (or Thursday, for locals wary of bridge-and-tunnelers). But Great Gosh A-mighty if DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" at 330 Ritch hasn't comp ... More >>
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September 17, 2008
Al Green goes back to the basics
Natty and Nappy: Questlove Tuesday nights haven't traditionally been the most happening club nights around--that honor is usually reserved for the weekend (or Thursday, for locals wary of bridge-and-tunnelers). But Great Gosh A-mighty if DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" at 330 Ritch hasn't comp ... More >>
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June 4, 2008
The Roots’ state of the union address
Natty and Nappy: Questlove Tuesday nights haven't traditionally been the most happening club nights around--that honor is usually reserved for the weekend (or Thursday, for locals wary of bridge-and-tunnelers). But Great Gosh A-mighty if DJ Sake One's "Pacific Standard Time" at 330 Ritch hasn't comp ... More >>
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May 28, 2008
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May 21, 2008
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June 27, 2007
His Writing Technique is Unstoppable
Brian Coleman gets hip hop's golden years on the record
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May 2, 2007
Thee More Shallows
Book of Bad Breaks (Anticon)
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January 31, 2007
Hiphop gets back to its Roots
Book of Bad Breaks (Anticon)
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September 27, 2006
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March 1, 2006
Get Down With Dave
Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party
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May 4, 2005
BeatBox
"We Funk" brings DJs Dusk and Miles up from L.A.; get down to the "Sounds of the Basement" with Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs
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July 14, 2004
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The Tipping Point
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April 14, 2004
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Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition
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February 19, 2003
Hear This
Japan's DJ Krush gets his abstract-electronica groove on
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December 24, 2002
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April 24, 2002
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November 17, 1999
Illadephonic Sounds
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August 18, 1999
New School Session
After big labels beat on its door for years, Lootpack found a home on a small San Francisco imprint and an original approach to modern hip hop
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September 24, 1997
Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy
After big labels beat on its door for years, Lootpack found a home on a small San Francisco imprint and an original approach to modern hip hop
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December 25, 1996
Roots System
After big labels beat on its door for years, Lootpack found a home on a small San Francisco imprint and an original approach to modern hip hop
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May 27, 2009
The Roots discuss hip-hop’s second jazz age
After big labels beat on its door for years, Lootpack found a home on a small San Francisco imprint and an original approach to modern hip hop
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October 12, 2009
The Return of the Coup
EKAphotographyBoots Riley at Outside Lands, 2009 It's been a minute since Oakland's legendary hip-hop group the Coup last played its hometown - nine years in fact, according to frontman and primary songwriter Boots Riley. In that time, the group has played SF and Berkeley -"We did a kind of ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
R.I.P. Gang Starr's Guru
Legendary hip-hop emcee Guru passed away on April 19 at age 43 after a reportedly long battle with cancer that forced him to be hospitalized earlier this year. The news was posted to DJPremierblog.com, a fan site dedicated to Guru's former GangStarr partner, DJ Premier. Although the blog had been up ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
The Park provides solid rhythm and a safe playspace
Legendary hip-hop emcee Guru passed away on April 19 at age 43 after a reportedly long battle with cancer that forced him to be hospitalized earlier this year. The news was posted to DJPremierblog.com, a fan site dedicated to Guru's former GangStarr partner, DJ Premier. Although the blog had been up ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
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 >>
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August 25, 2010
Emily Wells Remembers S.F. As 'Pure Blissed-Out Romance,' Plays Saturday at Slim's
Pigeonhole Emily Wells at your own peril. Homegirl stacks violin loops like Andrew Bird, purrs tales of love and darkness like PJ Harvey, lays down beats like ?uestlove, and occasionally even raps like Eartha Kitt channeling Biggie. On her albums, particularly 2008's The Symphonies: Dreams Memori ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote
Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracySo you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
After 20 Years, the Vinyl Still Spins -- And Sells -- at Groove Merchant Records
Ian S. PortGroove Merchant owner Chris Veltri with a rare record.Chris Veltri stands behind the cluttered wood counter at Groove Merchant record store. Dressed in a navy peacoat and Levis, with sandy blond bangs draped over his blue eyes, he watches three customers browse his small Lower Haight s ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
"Beats, Rhymes, and Life": Michael Rapaport's "Love Letter" to A Tribe Called Quest
Ian S. PortGroove Merchant owner Chris Veltri with a rare record.Chris Veltri stands behind the cluttered wood counter at Groove Merchant record store. Dressed in a navy peacoat and Levis, with sandy blond bangs draped over his blue eyes, he watches three customers browse his small Lower Haight s ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
J Dilla's 10 Greatest Remixes
J Dilla Deceased hip-hop producer J Dilla, née Jay Dee, first asserted himself on the rap radar with his group Slum Village. Lauded by luminaries Q-Tip and ?uestlove, the Detroit-based trio of Dilla, T3, and Baatin (also sadly deceased) are held in cult esteem today, and tonight, remaining g ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Watch tUnE-yArDs Make Its TV Debut with the Roots on "Gangsta"
tUnE-yArDs on TV! So this was pretty cool: Not only did the Oakland experimental pop outfit tUnE-yArDs make its TV debut last night on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, but it did it so with the show's house band, which just so happens to be the Roots. With Questlove on drums and Black T ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
DJ Excel on His Mixtape History, and Why Top 40 Clubs Suck
Philly-born DJ Excel started his DJ/musical career at just 11 years old and later sold mixtapes in high school. A turntabilist at heart, he became the founder of the Skratch Makaniks crew of DJs known for their legitimate turntable skills and ability to rock any club. Having moved to L.A.19 ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Thirteen Lesser-Known Artists You Should See at Outside Lands 2011
From SF Weekly's latest print music section: tUnE-yArDs is one act you shouldn't miss at Outside LandsOutside Lands Must-Sees: You're obviously going to catch the headliner sets at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival, so we'll assume you're already more than familiar with Arcade Fire, Muse ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Weekend Party Preview: Dirtybird, Tiger & Woods, The Rapture, and More
It seems as though the weekend party gods may yet smile on San Francisco. Early forecasts show that the weather this weekend will be brisk but thankfully dry. And that's good news, because this weekend's got a grip of fantastic parties that will appeal to a diverse crowd, nu-disco fanatics a ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus on Her Creative Philosophy, Finding Inspiration in the Bay, and the Wisdom of Steve Jobs
tUnE-yArDs performs Wednesday at the Regency Ballroom. By CHLOE ROTH In 2009, tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus was lured from Montreal to Oakland by "Love and fear of illegal immigrant status in Canada." Lucky for us. "I started sadly playing a ukulele that my mom had given me," Garbus ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
The Grammys: A Timeline of Madness and Misery
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards happened yesterday. Which we're sure you know already. If you missed it, however, you may have missed some of the weirdest details. So here, for your convenience, is a timeline of events. Get comfortable, 'cause this thing was a three-and-a-half-hour carnival of absurdi ... More >>

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