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Richie Cunning

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    November 10, 2011

    Take a Ride on Muni with SF Rapper Richie Cunning in "The Station"

    Richie Cunning, waitin' for a train.​ Regular readers of this blog will know we've got a big thing for the city-centric boom-bap of Richie Cunning, an S.F. native and rapper extraordinaire. The man builds classic jazz and soul samples into head-nodding beats, then rhymes detail-laden, deeply p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Watch Richie Cunning and Crew Get Wrecked in New "Rec Your Life" Video

    Video by Trevor Traynor​Local rapper and All Shook Down Fest veteran Richie Cunning and his Rec League aren't exactly role models, kids -- they like drinking, and they like drinking a lot. "Rec League in the building/ Raise the flag/ Start takin' Beam shots like laser tag/ We gonna black out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    All Shook Down: Battlehooch Tells Us to Do Weird Things, Plus Con Brio and Richie Cunning

    Joseph SchellBattlehooch's Pat Smith unleashes the fury at All Shook Down.​SF Weekly's All Shook Down Fest: Battlehooch, Richie Cunning, and Con Brio August 6, 2011 Regency Ballroom [See Part II of our ASD Fest roundup, featuring Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., and more] Better than: A compan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    All Shook Down: Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., and Maus Haus Rile up the Regency

    Joseph SchellCrystal Castles at the All Shook Down Music Fest​ SF Weekly's All Shook Down Fest featuring Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., Maus Haus, and more August 6, 2011 Regency Ballroom [See Part I of our ASD Fest roundup, featuring Battlehooch, Richie Cunning, and Con Brio] Better than: Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Reminder/OMFG: The All Shook Down Music Fest Is Tomorrow

    ​Since you've been living under a rock (or maybe you just bought a Pet Rock and think it's really distractingly cool), we wish to remind you that tomorrow night is SF Weekly's All Shook Down Music Fest at the Regency Ballroom. It's not too late to snag a ticket and catch some great entertainme ... More >>

  • Music

    August 3, 2011

    All Shook Down Isn't Your Average Music Fest

    ​Since you've been living under a rock (or maybe you just bought a Pet Rock and think it's really distractingly cool), we wish to remind you that tomorrow night is SF Weekly's All Shook Down Music Fest at the Regency Ballroom. It's not too late to snag a ticket and catch some great entertainme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    All Shook Down Music Fest: Download Our Free Pre-Party Mini-Mix

    ​ Our All Shook Down Music Fest is coming up quickly -- it's this Saturday at the Regency Ballroom, in case you haven't gotten tickets yet. We're sure you're as excited as we are to see Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., Maus Haus, and more. But just to send your anticipation to even greater hei ... More >>

  • Music

    July 27, 2011

    All Shook Down Music Fest: A Guide to the Artists

    ​ Our All Shook Down Music Fest is coming up quickly -- it's this Saturday at the Regency Ballroom, in case you haven't gotten tickets yet. We're sure you're as excited as we are to see Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., Maus Haus, and more. But just to send your anticipation to even greater hei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Richie Cunning on San Francisco, Stevie Wonder, and the Wonders of Google Image Search

    Trevor Traynor​The easiest way to recognize local rapper Richie Cunning in a crowded room is by the Giants hat he's probably wearing. Born and raised in San Francisco, Cunning often raps about the city he calls home, the city he loves. In a few weeks, he'll be spitting rhymes at SF Weekly's A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Song of the Day: Richie Cunning

    ​ More love for Richie Cunning from SF Weekly. The recent member of the Thizzler Bay Area Freshmen 10 class dropped a new song a couple days ago, which samples "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, an instant nostalgia trip for the under-40 crowd. The new song is also ca ... More >>

  • Music

    May 11, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

    ​ More love for Richie Cunning from SF Weekly. The recent member of the Thizzler Bay Area Freshmen 10 class dropped a new song a couple days ago, which samples "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, an instant nostalgia trip for the under-40 crowd. The new song is also ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Bay Area Freshman 10 Rappers List Includes Riche Cunning, Rafael Casal, Young Gully

    ​It's out! After weeks of anticipation, shouting on Twitter, more anticipation, argument, make-ups, breakdowns, tweets about tweets about tweets, and more anticipation, DJ Amen, Thizzler, and KMEL 106.1 FM finally dropped their Freshman 10 list of the hottest up-and-coming Bay Area rappers. G ... More >>

  • Music

    February 9, 2011

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

    ​It's out! After weeks of anticipation, shouting on Twitter, more anticipation, argument, make-ups, breakdowns, tweets about tweets about tweets, and more anticipation, DJ Amen, Thizzler, and KMEL 106.1 FM finally dropped their Freshman 10 list of the hottest up-and-coming Bay Area rappers. G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Richie Cunning On Tour with Hieroglyphics: Now Captured in a Silly Video

    Richie Cunning, coming to you from a truckstop somewhere near Yuma.​So by now you know we're fans of up-and-coming S.F. rapper Richie Cunning -- what, with us having him throw down at our little shindig last Friday and all. (Yeah, be sorry you missed it!) Well, Cunning and his crew have been on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Friday: Photos from SF Weekly's All Shook Down Pop-Up Party

    Joseph SchellRichie Cunning at Friday's All Shook Down Pop-Up Party​You came. You saw. You got free PBR -- if you were on the early side, and if not, you probably made the corner store owners of the Lower Haight happy. You caught Blackbird Blackbird sending wisps of electronic psychedelia througho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Little Dragon, All Shook Down Pop-Up, Big Lebowski Party, Debaser Sweethearts and More

    X-Ray Press plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There's plenty to do this weekend -- even a few things as enticing as the free party thrown tonight by this very blog, All Shook Down. (Hehe.) Here's our list of 10 things (or, um, ours plus nine) to do this weekend for less than the price of a bottl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    In Case You Haven't Heard, We're Having a Free Party This Friday with Richie Cunning and Blackbird Blackbird

    ​Yeah, so, not that there isn't a ton of good stuff going on tomorrow evening, as with any normal Friday in S.F., but we'd love to meet you at the Fifty24Gallery in Lower Haight. We'll be holding court there with Blackbird Blackbird, Richie Cunning, a shit-ton of free Pabst Blue Ribbon (note: tast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    We're Throwing a Free Party with Richie Cunning, Blackbird Blackbird, and Lots of PBR

    ​And so the awesomeness scheduled for our All Shook Down Pop-Up Party on Feb. 4 increases:For the good of all, we will present S.F. rapper Richie Cunning (now opening on Hieroglyphics' current tour), electro-psych purveyor Blackbird Blackbird, ourselves (the opinionated/disheveled music writers of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    The Top 10 Bay Area Hip-Hop Albums of 2010

    2010 has been a pretty good year for Bay Area hip-hop, if only because it saw the next generation of local rappers come into its own, eager (and maybe even ready) to put the Bay back on the national radar once again. Even after the death of hyphy, rappers here just continue to get weirder and weirde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Five Opening Bands to Catch This Week

    Trevor TraynorRichie Cunning ​With SF Popfest firing up this Thursday -- and spring tour season in full-bloom -- show-goers should anticipate plenty of hot opening bands this week. Here are five that deserve a solid effort on your part to get there early. Remember, you'll have the whole summer to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Video of the Day: Fly Like Ferris Bueller With "Richie Cunning's Day Off"

    We're big fans of Richie Cunning here at SF Weekly. (Anyone who comes up with the tagline "the Zen Buddha of the N Judah" is off to a good start in our book). But when Richie suggests avoiding the office to "clean my house, bake a cake, and play golf," while running around with colorful local chara ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    The Zen Buddha of the N-Judah: Rapper Richie Cunning

    ​From this week's issue of SF Weekly: Some San Franciscans make a Mission burrito run as soon as they return to town. Rapper and producer Richie Cunning just takes a deep breath and says, "Oh, thank God." He loves the city's air enough to give it a shout-out on his debut LP, Night Train, a record ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2010

    The Zen Buddha of the N-Judah: Rapper Richie Cunning

    ​From this week's issue of SF Weekly: Some San Franciscans make a Mission burrito run as soon as they return to town. Rapper and producer Richie Cunning just takes a deep breath and says, "Oh, thank God." He loves the city's air enough to give it a shout-out on his debut LP, Night Train, a record ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    5 Things To Do This Weekend for Under $10

    AJ FarkasMatmos, at SFMOMA on Saturday​Our apologies for the shorter list this week. We came down with the N-Flu (you know how it goes, sick folks ride the N to work and infect the whole Muni line). So there's only 5 Things on our list for cheap weekend entertainment. But they're good things. To m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Video of the Day: Richie Cunning

    Local rapper Richie Cunning is about to drop his Night Train CD, which comes out January 15. This promo video for the record is pretty stunning. Shot by Trevor Traynor, the video is a composite of flashes of San Francisco, images of the city at night, with neon reflecting on wet pavement. Of course ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    Trevor Traynor Shoots People

    Scott LaRockwellThe Shootist: Trevor Traynor Just as classic rock shutterbugs from Jim Marshall to Jay Blakesberg have added visual impact to that genre's iconographic landscape, so too have hip-hop's photographic chroniclers, people such as Jamal Shabazz and Ernie Pannicioli. Add to that list Trev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Club Night Review: Fuck the Recession at the Rickshaw Stop

    Fuck the Recession at Rickshaw StopLast Seen: April 8, 2009Recurring Club Night? Impromptu.Better than: The Depression. Click here for a full slideshow."My message is simple: what makes life interesting is not the things that you own, but the shit you do." --Stuart SchuffmanDedicated to the art of l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Open Mic Night Tonight Features Scarub & Eligh

    Microphone Fiend: ScarubGot skills? Verses? 16 bars of punchlines? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, why not let the world know how dope/fresh/ill you are? At tonight's Open Mic Night at 330 Ritch, you'll have that chance. Sponsored by Stash Magazine (email here to sign up), the every-othe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Tuesday Night: Keys to the City at the Independent

    Keys to the City The Independent Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2009 Notes by Jackie Lopez The Independent was chilly on the inside Tuesday night. The venue had left the doors wide open and it just wasn't packed enough for the crowd to steal some body heat from others in attendance. Still, a good number showed u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Free Tix: Keys to the City at the Independent

    Yet another line between web project and live show will be blurred on Tuesday, December 9, as the Keys to the City online imeem series on hip-hop culture with a street perspective comes to the Independent (628 Divisadero Street). The concert will feature U-N-I (who was recently awarded MTV Video Mus ... More >>

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