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Oddisee Has All The Answers
The D.C. rapper has perfected the art of speaking his mind without sounding moralizing. SF Weekly Fans who chat with Oddisee — a D.C. rapper who likes to sit at the merch table after finishing shows — often critique his set list or tell him about their favorite songs....
Doug Hream Blunt’s Funk Revival
Three decades after its release, the 67-year old San Francisco musician's debut album finally enters the limelight. SF Weekly (Cover Story) Doug Hream Blunt was watching TV in his first-floor, Visitacion Valley home when the phone rang. It was the middle of 2015, and...
Crusaders of the Strange
Husband-and-wife duo Vantana Row combines rapping, screaming, and bassy electronic production into inventive, off kilter tunes. SF Weekly It’s hard to categorize East Bay duo Vantana Row’s sound. While their music involves rapping, it also includes screaming. Though...
Grooving With Rockin’ Jim
For more than four decades, the KPOO DJ has been spinning '50s and '60s tunes on nighttime radio. SF Weekly It’s a little before 8:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Jim Rigsbee is sitting in the studio at public radio station KPOO, shuffling through a stack of CDs and...
Dank Digits
Incorporating weed into nail art is the new way to show your love for the plant. SF Weekly Walk into any nail salon and chances are you’ll be greeted with the smells of rubbing alcohol and acetone. But a new trend is sweeping the nail-art world that might introduce...
A Primer on Skepta and U.K. Grime
SF Weekly It took the award-winning London rapper Skepta at least a decade to get on Coachella’s bill. Even though the 34-year-old — widely regarded as a leading figure in the U.K. grime scene — has reached Kendrick Lamar status overseas, it wasn’t until 2016 that his...
Pop’s Wild Horse
Bishop Briggs has made a name for herself as a moody, melancholic singer, but there's more than one side to her. SF Weekly Sometimes, mixing business and family can be a terrible idea. Other times, it can be a boon for the whole clan. Fortunately, things worked out...
Berkeley Rapper Rexx Life Raj is Feeling Like A Dad Right Now
SF Weekly On a recent Saturday night, upwards of a hundred millennials gathered in an Emeryville warehouse to gleefully chant "Got me feeling like a dad right now." Leading the chorus was a 6-foot-3 man with chest-length dreadlocks flecked with gold beads, dressed in...
Pop Duo Midi Matilda Plans Its Comeback One Single at a Time
SF Weekly Midi Matilda was in a pickle. The electronic-pop duo — consisting of drummer Logan Grimé and multi-instrumentalist and singer Skyler Kilborn — had dozens of three-foot-by-two-foot band posters printed on newsprint, but they had no idea what to do with them....
Sonic Soul Food
With his debut album, Jentrify, Elujay speaks for both himself and Oakland. SF Weekly Elujay is no stranger to Interstate 5. A third-year business student at the University of Redlands, he's made the roughly 400-mile journey between SoCal and his hometown of Oakland...
It’s a Shitty World But Someone’s Gotta Save It
Thao Nguyen can't perform miracles, but she can try to instill change one song at a time. SF Weekly Get her behind a microphone, and Thao Nguyen turns into a beast. Her coos evolve into screams, and her murmurs amplify into shouts. She’ll whip her hair so fervently...
The Patron Saint of Sex
Carol Queen is battling cultural misnomers about sex, one lecture at a time. SF Weekly The week of Valentine’s Day was busy for Carol Queen. Then again, so are most weeks for the sexologist who, in addition to being the oldest working staff member at Good Vibrations,...