Rhode Island-native Abraham Orellana, better known as his stage name AraabMuzik, is an American record producer and disc jockey. He first rose to fame after showcasing his skills of making live beats and instrumentals on a Music Production Center (MPC) drum machine. He uses MPC to produce rapid, rhythmic drum patterns

There’s a new web series about San Francisco called Don’t Call it Frisco. The first episode was just released today, and it’s looking damn good. These cats really invested the time and money to do it right. And there are some pretty funny moments. When I asked Matt Barkin, the

Rockers are descending onto San Francisco to show their…photography; Dave Catching (Eagles of Death Metal), Chris Coleman (Kings of Leon), Moby, & 6 others musicians are showing their bizarre, beautiful or unexpected photography in San Francisco, oh and the show is curated by White Zombie’s Sean Yseult

  TILT! Stand-Up Comedy and Storytelling at the Pacific Pinball Museum with 100+ Pinball Machines on Free Play! The inaugural monthly comedy/storytelling show brought to you by comedy darling Mary Van Note. Headlining is San Francisco’s own musical comedy weirdo DJ REAL.  Also performing are rising comedy stars Roman Leo

Lucinda Williams has been maneuvering down a path all her own for more than three decades now, emerging from Lake Charles, Louisiana, where her iconoclastic upbringing helped her forge the stunning Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album). Somehow, that milestone 1988 set eventually disappeared from shelves, but was reissued 25

This article originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City Column for the San Francisco Examiner.  It was 8 or 9 a.m. I was standing on the corner of 14th and Folsom waiting for the light to change when I heard an enthusiastic, “Hey! You look muy guapo!” growled from the hedge

Fog City Summer Part 3 a San Francisco Romance Excerpt from a Novel by Genie Cartier Read Part 2 Last time: Djuna and Julian have an intimate evening. Julian comes over to Djuna’s house for dinner the next day, but their night is interrupted by Scott, who bursts in, clearly inebriated.