Beyond The Stage

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,...

Chronicles of The Juice Man

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...

’99 ’til Infinity

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...

Straight Outta Chachiville

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 Hatching of Dirtybird

The story of how four friends turned a barbecue in Golden Gate Park into a dance music empire. SF Weekly (Cover story) I’m standing in the center of a party bus, clinging to a stripper pole. Deep, molecule-rearranging bass music vomits out of the speakers, drenching...