Joie Botkin

Terra Lopez started Sister Crayon as a solo project, but it quickly became a quartet that built a reputation as one of the best...

In "Suddenly," a track on 24-year-old Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky's long-awaited major label debut, Long.Live.A$AP, Rocky warns audiences Don't view me as no conscious...

Bay Blue, the self-titled album from 35-year-old producer Matt Chang, is an album both inspired by, and a soundtrack to, Oakland. Artistically, it's an...

Coupling punk rock with hip-hop, white-boy wunderkind rapper Machine Gun Kelly (MGK), recently signed to Bad Boy/Interscope, offers a double dose of corporate-sponsored disenfranchised...

Pounding codeine, seeing strippers, checkin' hos, and twerkin': Bay Area heavyweights E-40 and Too $hort are back with a new two-album collaboration, History: Mob...

March, 2012, Low End Theory at 1015 Folsom: Doseone (aka Adam Drucker) decides to gauge the reception to instrumentals on his upcoming solo album....

Dusted, the latest indie-folk side project from Brian Borcherdt, best known for his lo-fi, synth-rock electronic group Holy Fuck, brings in producer Leon Taheny...