The history of San Francisco's most iconic music venues SF Weekly (Cover Story) From techno warehouses to indie-rock taverns, San Francisco has no shortage of music venues. We’re especially lucky to have a few that are over a century old, having weathered fires,...
Popping our collars with Juicy J. SF Weekly If you’ve never been to a strip club but still know what “bandz” are, you have Juicy J — the rapper behind the 2012 Billboard charting single “Bandz a Make Her Dance” — to thank. One of the co-founders of the legendary...
The millennium is still alive and bumpin' in San Francisco DJ and producer Miguel Migs' soulful, deep house jams. SF Weekly House DJ and producer Miguel Migs has fond memories of San Francisco in the ’90s, especially of its thriving, underground dance music community....
Compton rapper Problem reps all of California (and the L.A. Rams) in his music. LA Weekly “One of my friends called me one day and was like, ‘We’re gonna call you Chachi,’” Compton rapper Problem tells me. He’s talking about Chachi Arcola, Scott Baio’s character in...
The groudbreaking Bay Area trio is using music to connect global cultures. SF Weekly (Cover Story) “Welcome home,” says a girl with a back tattoo, snaking her arms in the air. I’m standing in the pit of the Fox Theater in Oakland on a Saturday night in December,...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's frontman Ruban Nielson couldn't stop himself from writing about the love triangle he and his wife had with another woman, and now he's dealing with the consequences. SF Weekly Ruban Nielson, frontman of the indie-rock quartet Unknown Mortal...
SF Weekly If you’ve been to a concert in the last few years, surely you’ve seen them: dozens upon dozens of cellphones hovering above the audience — and, most likely, blocking your view. But it’s not just the view-blocking that is annoying about cellphone use at...
SF Weekly For the last six months, the seven members of the Chicago band Whitney have been homeless — sort of. Though they've been living out of suitcases and backpacks, they haven't necessarily been sleeping on the streets. Instead, they've been touring — first...
SF Weekly Big Grams might not sound familiar, but surely the names of the individual artists who make up the eclectic hip-hop trio do. Consisting of rapper Big Boi (André 3000's other half in OutKast) and Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel of the electronic rock duo...
Electronic-R&B Duo Lion Babe Will Forever Be Tied to its Breakout Single SF Weekly The song opens with a trickling keyboard melody, coated with a thick layer of analog fuzz that makes the tune sound old, and as if it were cascading through your speakers from a...
Five years ago, Flume was a waiter at Hard Rock Cafe. Now, he's an international sensation. SF Weekly Flume may be one month shy of turning 25, but he already “feels old.” “Do I think I’ve matured?” the electronic musician asks from St. Louis, one of the many stops on...
The 26-year-old vocalist has come far in three years. SF Weekly “It sounds cliche,” singer-songwriter Eryn Allen Kane warns me over the phone while driving to a recording session in L.A. She’s explaining how she learned to sing, and credits the church on the east side...