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...
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...
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...
SHURA: The UK’s Latest Avant Pop Singer
SF Weekly Shura is a 24-year-old experimental pop singer from Manchester who makes dance music — but hates dancing. She’s a vocalist who doesn’t like the sound of her own voice. A musician who has anxiety performing in front of others. And an artist who’s about to go...
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...
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,...
Salt Room Therapy On Shifty Ground
The Los Angeles Times Halotherapy is an alternative therapy for chronic respiratory and skin problems that is modeled after the salt caves and spas that originated more than 200 years ago. LOS ANGELES — Heidi Kling is reading in an all-white room. She’s shoeless,...
NOISEY: Get Dark With Raider Klan’s Amber London
Noisey Amber London is in a moment of transition. Like many 23-year-olds, the Houston-bred rapper is contemplating moving out of her family’s home, what she wants from her career, and where her identity fits with that vision. “I’m figuring out who I am,”...
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,...
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....
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...
Skeme Stays True to his Inglewood Roots — Except When He’s Ghostwriting Other People’s Hits
LA Weekly At Time for a Cut Barber Shop in Inglewood, Lonnie Kimble, known to rap fans as Skeme, sits slouched in a faux leather chair, his dreads pulled back in a ponytail and his knees peeking out of holes in his distressed Yves St. Laurent jeans. A bootlegged...