Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper MC Zumbi Shoots Video For His Song 'Tech $' As His Family Moves Out Of Their House Oakland rapper MC Zumbi, a.k.a. Steven Gaines and part of hip hop group Zion I, cut a track earlier this year in which he raps about being a victim of gentrification
Arts & Entertainment 12 Outdoor Pianos Return To Botanical Garden This Week In 2013, Mauro ffortissimo began wheeling a piano, as covertly as one can, onto the bluffs near his Half Moon Bay home to play the same Schumann Arabesque at sunset each night. Those
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Hodor Actor Kristian Nairn To DJ Rave Of Thrones At Mezzanine Before he was huge on the small screen as Hodor on HBO's Game of Thrones, Kristian Nairn was just a huge dude who was also very big on the Northern Irish deep house
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Watch The Amazing Acro-Cats Do Tricks, Play Music Have you ever wanted to see talented cats perform acrobatic stunts? Of course you have. How about rock-star cats jamming out some serious tunes? Double of course you have. Well guess what, dear
Arts & Entertainment Lineup Released For Last Ever Treasure Island Music Festival (On Treasure Island Anyway) Treasure Island Music Festival's tenth anniversary performance, taking place on October 15th and 16th you know where, has just released its overall lineup. That's below for your careful consideration. Headliners are Ice Cube
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Announces New Tour Dates, Oakland Appearance Yeezy season approaches. This fall, Kanye West is set to arrive at Oakland's Oracle Arena on October 22 as part of a 32-city tour called "Saint Pablo." A note on that name: It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Cat, A New Restaurant And Lounge, Will Jazz Up The Tenderloin This Summer The Tenderloin, already purring with swanky bar and restaurant openings, will receive another place to carouse this summer in Black Cat, a restaurant and lounge with a touch of jazz. The bill at
Arts & Entertainment Full Stern Grove Lineup Includes George Clinton And Parliament, More The full, funky lineup for Stern Grove's 79th season is upon us: It's now available on the festival's website. And, as has been the case for many years, the acts booked for the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local Theater Calls Out The Ghost Of The Bold Italic For Declaring Arts Scene Dead Although you probably didn't realize it, The Bold Italic is still around. The once-popular blog was shut down last April after its parent company decided that it didn't feel like supporting the publication
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Is This The Outside Lands 2016 Lineup? It appears that the people over at SF Station may have jumped the gun with an earlier post, caught by an eagle-eyed SFist reader, listing an 2016 Outside Lands lineup which has not
Arts & Entertainment Tickets For Yet Another 'Surprise' Prince Show To Go On Sale Tuesday " By popular demand, @Prince3EG to perform at @OracleArena THIS FRIDAY night! Tickets on sale TODAY at 4pm pic.twitter.com/NeD7Dwhm48— Prince3EG (@Prince3EG) March 1, 2016 It appears that Prince just can't quit
Arts & Entertainment Adele 'Hello' Parody Calls Out Mayor, Ron Conway It's been almost a year since we had a music video cover of a hit song attempt to shine a spotlight on the gnashing of San Francisco's inequality teeth, and so it feels
Arts & Entertainment Someone Recorded a Live Album At SF County Jail SF County Jail No. 2 Pod E serves as the music venue for a new live album by jazz and soul artist Naima Shalhoub, and it's titled Live in San Francisco County Jail.
SF News Beloved Hobbit Elijah Wood Is Also A DJ, Will Spin In SF Next Week Everyone's favorite hairy-footed friend, Elijah Wood, is coming to San Francisco next week. However, instead of reprising his notable role of hobbit Frodo Baggins in the recent film adaptations of J.R.R.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Festival Adds Metric, Neon Indian, And More With Tickets On Sale Tomorrow The 24-year-old "indie" music festival from San Francisco's Noise Pop, really a somewhat loose network of shows in a wide variety of genres, has expanded its eclectic offerings for February 19th through the
SF News Amoeba Holds Up A Mirror To Our Souls, Tells Us Best-Selling Albums Of 2015 The music one listens to can reveal a lot about a person's state of mind. Just got paid, and feel like cutting loose? Drop that Little Richard. Just got laid off? Maybe some
Arts & Entertainment Adele Meets The Weeknd Meets Bieber In DJ Earworm's 'United State of Pop 2015' As we do every year, we bring you the massive, intricately spliced, annual 50-song mashup that DJ Earworm makes to commemorate the past year in pop music. It is a mash of the
Arts & Entertainment Tapes Of The Velvet Underground's 1969 SF Residency Finally Released Today This week the Chronicle remembers that, after a negative review in that paper from 1966, Lou Reed once called the city of San Francisco "tedious, a lie, and untalented." But in the liner
Arts & Entertainment In A Move To Compete Directly With Spotify, Pandora Buys Rdio Oakland-based Pandora just announced that it's purchasing the assets of San Francisco-based Rdio for $75 million, contingent on the latter company getting bankruptcy protection. As shouldn't be surprising given the rapid rise of
SF News Oakland's Pandora Buys SF's Ticketfly For $450 Million You liked the song, so now would you like to see the artist in concert? That's the $450 million question that Pandora, the 80-million user music discovery service (read: streaming internet radio station)
Arts & Entertainment SF Singer/Songwriter Rachel Lark Talks About Her New Video About Period Sex Don't worry, everybody. The "blood" — all 6 gallons of it — in local bawdy singer/songwriter Rachel Lark's first music video is just corn syrup. "No sex-positive people were harmed in the making of
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Official Treasure Island Music Festival Night Shows (So Far) When Treasure Island Music Festival — in some ways the lower-key counterpart to Outside Lands — herds artists from The National to DeadMau5 to the Bay Area for October 17 and 18, some of those
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
Arts & Entertainment An Interview And Performance By Fantastic Negrito, The Oakland Musician Whose OSL Set Was Canceled In the wake of being detained and disallowed from playing his set last weekend on suspicion of selling a wristband to Outside Lands, Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito doesn't sound bitter. “I don’t
Arts & Entertainment Video: This Song Played On A Game Boy Is Your Surprise New Jam Mission-based artist, musician, and certifiable character Doctor Popular has sure been playing his Game Boy a lot. Now he's got this new song, titled "Moebius Strip Tease," to show for it. Yup, the
