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TNGHT Pounds Through the Chronic Fog at Mezzanine, 4/20/13

TNGHT Bogl vs. Dials Saturday, April 20, 2013 Mezzanine Better than: Passing out after an Adult Swim marathon. It was 12:36 a.m. The iPod had been playing on an empty stage for 20 minutes now, and the restless crowd shifted uncomfortably, clearly impatient that the members of TNGHT, producers Huds ... More >>

Fiona Apple Arrest Shows Why No One Should Ever Leave California

In a shocking reminder of the existence of anti-marijuana laws, famed singer Fiona Apple was arrested in Texas yesterday after police say they found a small amount of hashish (a concentrated form of pot, but you knew that) on her tour bus. The singer -- who performed at the Warfield in front of re ... More >>

How to Deal With Airport Security When You're a Famous Musician

The problem with being famous and getting special treatment everywhere you go is that you sometimes forget that rules actually apply to you. Yes, music stars, we know you think you're more important than the rest of us plebeians, but make no mistake about it: In the eyes of airport security, you're ... More >>

Watch E-40 as Puppet Pimp in Funny or Die's "Bitches" Video

Just a week after Bay Area emcee E-40 dropped three brand-new albums under the series name The Block Brochure, he now pops up as a pimping puppet named Vladimir Checkabitch in a Funny or Die video called "Bitches." The video depicts the "biggest rap group in the world," the Dummiez, a felted posse ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar: Show Preview

Kendrick Lamar

Snoop and Dre's Protégé

Coachella 2012 Lineup: Radiohead, The Black Keys, Dr. Dre and Snoop, Pulp, The Weeknd, and More

See also: * Fauxchella: How to See Your Favorite Coachella Bands Without Leaving S.F. It's here: The lineup for the biggest music festival in the west, Coachella, and the first year in which the festival will span two weekends, April 13-15 and 20-22. The billing is a blockbuster even by Coachella ... More >>

R.I.P. Rapper Special One, of Oakland Duo Conscious Daughters

Special One (left) and CMJ​Special One, a rapper in the East Oakland hip-hop duo the Conscious Daughters, passed away on Saturday. Initial reports say the woman born Karryl Smith was found dead at her apartment by her rhyming partner CMJ (Carla Green); according to Green, the cause of Smith's ... More >>

Justin BUA's Top Five Illustrated Hip-Hop Album Covers

"Historically, artists painted the court and the aristocracy. I'm the court painter of hip-hop -- the artists are that important." So says Justin BUA, the hip-hop generation artist who celebrates the release of his new book The Legends Of Hip-Hop with a signing session at Booksmith this Friday start ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview: Thundercat at Low End Theory, Creep at 120 Minutes, A Month of Funk, and More

Creep performs at 120 Minutes on Friday.​ Halloween might be over, but did you know there's a much more subtle holiday on the way? No, not Thanksgiving -- I'm referring to the end of daylight savings time this Sunday. It's the only time of the year when Californians are allowed an extra hour o ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa Sends Smoke Signals Through Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Wiz Khalifa at Bill Graham Civic last night. All photos by Calibree Photography.​ Wiz Khalifa Big Sean June 22, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: The other kind of secondhand smoke Pittsburgh MC Wiz Khalifa (government name Cameron Thomaz) takes his moniker from an abbreviatio ... More >>

How Your Favorite Musicians Will Die

Monte "M-Dog" Talbert-- the "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy-- was recently gunned down in a drive-by in South Central L.A.. The "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy! Shot and killed! That's crazy. How many famous musicians have we lost to unusual deaths? A lot. Biggie and Tupac. John Lennon. Dimebag Darrell. A ... More >>

The Top Ten Hip-Hop Drinking Anthems

​Hip-hop's reliance on marijuana as a creative conduit and lifestyle accessory is well documented. But beyond the genre's top tokers, there's also a bubbling batch of rappers who've rhymed about not so much getting a little tipsy as daily dalliances with the dark world of being black-out drunk ... More >>

Remembering Biggie, Who Died 14 Years Ago Today

Happier times for the whole country​Christopher Wallace, better known to posterity as the Notorious B.I.G., died fourteen years ago today in Los Angeles. (Obligatory S.F. cameo: a few days before, he did a radio interview here on WiLD 107 where he said he'd hired a security detail because he feare ... More >>

An Incredibly Misleading Halloween Party Poster From Wild 94.9

Now, say you saw this:​What would you think? If you're like most people, you'd probably think, "Hell yeah! I'm about to go see Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre headline Wild 94.9's Halloween party!"That's certainly what the designer of this poster wants you to think. But that's not what this poster is ... More >>

Freddie Gibbs shows gangsta rap's limitations

Last Night: Frightened Rabbit at the Fillmore

​Frightened Rabbit Wednesday, May 19, 2010 The Fillmore Better Than: Snoop Dog, Dr. Dre, and Lil Wayne. In a recent blog entry, Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit lamented his own "certain brand of self-deprecation," and joked that becoming a professional rapper would allow him to exp ... More >>

Good Rappers Who've Made Terrible Actors

The trend of rappers shifting into acting is nothing new, and in theory it makes sense. Both roles focus on emotive storytelling, right? Unfortunately, that transition isn't always a smooth one--a point hammered home repeatedly by the new film Just Wright, starring Queen Latifah and Common. It's 100 ... More >>

Richie Rich's Top 5 Collabs: Rick James, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, E-40, Too $hort

​Richie Rich's credentials as a Bay Area rap pioneer are surpassed by perhaps only Too $hort. When Rich hit the scene back in the late-'80s as a member of the Oakland-based quintet 415, they scored big with the regional classic "41Fivin." Since then, he's journeyed a career arc that's taken in a s ... More >>

Is Steaks-In-The-Jacket Man Same as Gin-and-Juice-Down-The-Pants Man?

And it fits in your jacket. How convenient!​Readers may recall an alleged thief earlier this month re-enacting the Snoop Dogg canon -- in his pants. A security guard at the Safeway in the Outer Mission looked on as a man made a beeline toward the liquor aisle, shoved a bottle of gin down his trous ... More >>

P-Funk Tribute Tonight at PST

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural ... More >>

SF Weekly Interview: E-40

By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

SF Weekly Music Awards Nominee: Mistah F.A.B.

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Texas spitter Scarface Tells SF Weekly His Top '07 Albums

My Tunes: Lyrics Born

Quannum projects star and alt-rap icon

The Hustler

Del and Devin

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Get Blunted With Snoop Dogg's Boy in SF Tonight

SF Weekly Previews Jazz Fest of North Beach

Yo Ho Ho and a Cup o' Cocoa

Salty dogs and beached hipsters revel in sea chanteys together

Two bitches and a beer

Off your Gourd and into the StereoLab: A little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' electro

San Quinn

The Rock: Pressure Makes Diamonds

Aceyalone and RJD2 team up for hip hop sweetness; Joaquin Joe Claussell brings soulful house from NYC

My, what big beats you have: Slick Rick, the Mad Professor, and the DJ who brought us "Me So Horny."

Chow Nasty could blow the roof off an Animal House as easily as woo the sophisticates at, say, Mighty.

T. Raumschmiere's punk rock techno and Tha Alkaholiks' boisterous hip hop

Best Classic Music Venues

Imposter Impersonator

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

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The Hard Way

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Back with a new album, Wu Tang Clan's Method Man stops in San Francisco before taking over Hollywood.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Tudor's House

The Gourds; Brian Kenny Fresno; Guitar God-A-Thon and Wet Sweatpants Competition

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Riff Raff

House of Tudor

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