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...
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Big Grams: An Experiment in Opposites Gets the Formula Right
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...
LION BABE: Stuck On You
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...
Flume: From Hard Rock Cafe Waiter to International Sensation
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...
ERYN ALLEN KANE: Have Faith in Eryn Allen Kane
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...
Iamsu!: Another One Bites the Dust … Sorta
The Bay Area loses HBK rapper Iamsu! to Atlanta, but he promises he'll be back. SF Weekly In the last few years, a hot topic of conversation has been the mass exodus of musicians leaving the Bay Area for other locales, thanks to increased living costs, a shrinking...
Yelawolf: Inside the Mind of a Slumerican
Alabama rapper Yelawolf reveals his true feelings about women — or, as he calls them, "bitches." SF Weekly Had Hillary Clinton won the election, this article would have been different. But she didn’t, and Donald Trump did — and now I can’t look at a number of things,...
Denzel Curry: The Metamorphosis of a Rapper
How Miami emcee Denzel Curry spent the better part of 2015 working on himself. SF Weekly For most of 2015, mum was the word for Miami rapper Denzel Curry. The 21-year-old emcee kept a low profile, only emerging once in June to release the double EP, 32 Zel/Planet...
Marielle V. Jakobson: Getting Trippy
Marielle V. Jakobson’s new album, Star Core, will make you feel like you're on drugs. SF Weekly Last Saturday night at The Lab, roughly 50 people tripped — on music. Around 10:30 p.m., after a number of failed attempts at setting up the projector, a petite,...
Cover Story: The Yogi and the DJ
Two brothers' separate paths to music stardom. SF Weekly (Cover Story) On a Sunday evening in April, MC Yogi, a 37-year-old rapper and yoga teacher, bounded across the stage of The Independent, wearing a short-brimmed fedora and his trademark rectangular eyeglasses....
Fantastic Negrito: After Years of Busking and Touring, Fantastic Negrito Releases His First Full-Length Album
SF Weekly "It's a bit far because we've got to go all the way to the basement," says Xavier Dphrepaulezz, as he heads down a carpeted flight of stairs into a downtown Oakland gallery and recording studio. As the 48-year-old, better known as the black-roots musician...
ABRA: Meet ABRA, The Darkwave Duchess
SF Weekly Success has its caveats. Once an artist makes it big, there's a certain visceral quality to the music that gets lost. The do-it-yourself, succeed-or-perish ethos that helped make the artist becomes irrelevant once they're signed. The hunger vanishes. The...