the shamptonian institute

Raashan Ahmad (from the Crown City Rockers) debuted his solo The Push (Om Records), featuring Chali 2na and DJ Vadim among others, at Amoeba SF last Tuesday. Finally had some time this weekend to get some choice selects uploaded. My battery was running out though, so it’s just a snippet; but a good track off [...]

Hot May days. Bay 2 Breakers. Can you smell it? Can you smell spring? I can’t; my allergies are wack. But I can smell the hint of some sick indie hip hop getting ready to bust. Tuesday’s instore at Amoeba is a don’t miss. And in case you do, pay your penance and make you [...]

According to officials, and officials at the SF Bike Coalition, “official” Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, May 15th. So they say it is official, do they? Well then, if this is indeed official, then I’m going to need to see some official identification. For that matter, anyone claiming an event, person, day of the [...]

Forever and Never
recently at ffdg
An ongoing collaborative print project between Michael Sieben and Nat Swope exhibiting a series of prints and a good chance to see some excessively amazing art at coincidentally some amazingly inexpensive prices; under a hundred bones. I missed the open, but the show still goes on and for that matter, [...]

Amplive (half of Oakland hip pop legend Zion I) recently released a sick album of Radiohead remixes. It’s composed exclusively of source material pulled from In Rainbows, re-envisioned by Amplive and complimented by vocal work from Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, Codany Holiday, and Del The Funky Homosapien. It’s [...]