Accompanied by a breakbeat and a sample from Jimmy Durante’s version of “I’ll Be Seeing You,” Lupe Fiasco imagines that the African slave trade never happened, W.E.B. DuBois was Father of the Constitution, Bill O’Reiley reads from the Quran at Malcom X’s funeral, there was no crack epidemic, and hip hop isn’t concerned with complexion nor street cred.
The first time I saw The Avett Brothers, they were playing for about two dozen devoted fans on a rainy, weekday night at a mostly…
Before I moved out here, I was under the distinct impression that California was all about fun—an opinion bolstered by the incessant airing of a…
Going On Sale: Death Cab For Cutie, The Melvins uncut and other major Bay Area concert announcements
Huh. The only arguably arena-sized group with tickets going on sale in the Bay Area this weekend is Death Cab for Cutie, and Seattle’s most…
In the long-awaited, long-overdue return of this feature, we make a run for the borderline that pits ’80s mainstream icon vs. ’80s indie icon.
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
There’s so much going on in the Bay Area in any given week, there’s bound to be some show that failed to get any publicity…
In this new feature, I’ll be examining the lyrics to a current Top 10 hit in excruciating detail for no reason other than to mock…
When I tell them it’s The Downer Party, it’s awkward. They always ask us two things: “Do you eat each other?” or “Do you take a lot of downer drugs?” Neither of those (is true). That’s ridiculous.
Other than the cause, what I really enjoyed about the Save KUSF benefit on Saturday at The Uptown Night Club in Oakland was how many…