Andy Kawanami and Chuy Gomez (left to right) hosted ‘Hip Hop Friday’ on the California Music Channel in the ’90s. The channel became a crucial outlet for Bay Area rappers on their way to national ...

The Bay Area’s next rap star has forgotten his lyrics. LaRussell stands on a small platform at the front of the Empress Theatre in Vallejo, microphone in one hand, Android phone in the other. His ...

Tech, hip-hop, art and Bay Area culture. All those elements combined and you get "Co-Founders." The musical was born in a garage and is pushing innovation in theater. Before there is a dress rehearsal ...

Jack White and Eminem wow fans with a memorable Thanksgiving halftime performance at the Detroit Lions game, now available as 'Live at Ford Field' on streaming platforms. The one-hour project sets out ...

Johnson is talking about his years of “dirt hustling,” when he sold stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine Unsigned and Hella Broke and cassette tapes by his rap group Mystik Journeymen on Telegraph ...

Vallejo rapper LaRussell brought local flavor, nervous energy and a heavy dose of sentimentality to Outside Lands, as he treated the audience - which ballooned throughout his set - to a slate of Bay ...

For the first time since the great hyphy explosion of the mid-2000s, Bay Area rap can claim a new figurehead — a centripetal artist with an energizing signature sound. That artist is Trackademicks, a ...

1100 Himself in “RIP Brownsville Ka,” directed by Max Rogoff. Graphic by Chris Panicker. Times have changed. You generally know what happened: the homogeneity of the internet, widespread ...

LaRussell offered unexpected comfort to a grieving fan, who was navigating immense loss during his recent Berkeley concert. Malik Cross, 33, was shot and killed in East Oakland on June 27, while ...

In the Bay Area rap scene you can still find glimpses of the genre alive in its purest form. The region’s hip-hop culture is known for its independence and insular spirit born of a combination of pimp ...