Jay Electronica and Mos Def – Exhibit A (Live in SF)

Fashawn – Samsonite Man (Live in SF)

This is some live footage of Fashawn in concert up in San Fransisco as he performed his next single “Samsonite Man” (which features Blu).

Girls – Laura (Live in SF)

Zion I Live @ San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

Zion I performed “DJ, DJ” featuring Deuce Eclipse as part of YouTube’s live streaming webcast @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco on August 29, 2009. Big shout out to Deuce Eclipse for reppin’ Cali’s Finest! To buy the Cali’s Finest t-shirt that Deuce Eclipse was rockin’ on stage, click HERE.

Girls – Hellhole Ratrace (Official Video)

Bohemian Knuckleboogie – The Latrocinor

It’s Mike Pitre who gives Bohemian Knuckleboogie its mojo, with his swinging Texas-Louisiana bayou swamp-blues beat that heats up dance floors.

“Times come and go but the blues is the blues and we still got that itch,” says Pitre, who hails from Port Arthur, Texas, and now calls San Francisco home.

Their latest album, ”The Latrocinor” swings as Bohemian Knuckleboogie band leader Mike Pitre pulls up to your bumper and sets the groove with his pocket trumpet, guitar and Texas/Louisiana bayou vocals— “all blues for your shoes,” as Pitre likes to say.

Buy: The Latrocinor

Skinny Singers :: Strike Again!

Skinny Singers is comprised of two of California’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. Together, they represent a musical force that is awe inspiring. They are also very skinny. Tim Bluhm is a member of the highly influential rock band “The Mother Hips” and Jackie Greene plays and sings original songs with his band and solo. Watch the Skinny Singers in action below.

Have You Seen The Red Baby?

Blu & MainFrame ’s Johnson&Jonson album has been widely noticed and talked about around the world as the CD with the “Red Baby” on it. Since the birth of the “Red Baby” a.k.a. “Johnny”, the Johnson’s have brought the iconic “Red Baby” everywhere with them including trips to the studio, multiple meetings with labels, a couple of liquor stores, and their parties to celebrate the release of their critically acclaimed album.

When Blu & the Johnson’s performed at 111 Minna, a club in San Francisco, and brought “Johnny” along for additional support, he was stolen. There are several photos from that night that prove that the “Red Baby” truly was in attendance. He was spotted hanging out with the homies, a bunch of Filipino girls and one white chick dancing to early 90s hip-hop. Towards the end of the show MainFrame noticed and screamed on the mic “Yo, Where’s the “Red Baby” Yo” … at 1:43 a.m. the “Red Baby” was announced as a missing person.

Was the “Red Baby” a victim of a kidnapping? Did another MC or crazed J&J fan snag the baby off stage? Or was this a conspiracy plotted by a group of young Filipino girls to blackmail Blu & MainFrame for some shit.
In hoping that the “Red Baby” gets home safe Blu & MainFrame have posted this unreleased MP3 entitled “Baby Don’t Leave Me Now” to help lure any information pertaining to the missing “Red Baby”. If you have any information at all, please e-mail 1_800_JOHNSON@gmail.com. Muchas Gracias!

Jerry Garcia Biopic

Well, it’s about time. A new biopic about Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia is slated for the big screen. Focusing on the future counterculture hero’s early years in the Bay Area before he joined the Grateful Dead, the untitled project will be based on Robert Greenfield’s book, ‘Dark Star.’

Producers have reportedly acquired the rights to Greenfield ’s oral history of Garcia, which counts the perspectives of the musicians, relatives and artist friends like Ken Kesey. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the project will focus on Garcia’s stint in the military, his life-changing car accident and his first interactions with members of the San Francisco music scene, including future Dead bassist Phil Lesh.

Although the Grateful Dead have been the subject of number of documentaries, including the Garcia-directed concert film ‘The Grateful Dead Movie’ (1977), the story of Garcia’s life has yet to be explored on film.

Jackie Greene :: The Prince of Americana

Dubbed “The Prince of Americana” by the New York Times, Jackie Greene is steeped in country, blues, jazz, rock and folk traditions, defying easy categorization. This Northern California native has been around for a while, but is slowly defying a new genre of music with his Bob Dylan-esque look and classic American sound.

“I’ve been writing, recording and performing non-stop. I’ve lived in cars, hotels, basements…slept on floors, couches, strange girl’s beds. I wrote lots of songs in those places. Some I’ll never remember, but that’s all part of it, I guess.”

Greene, who happens to be in his late twenties already has four albums out, a DVD, and miles upon miles of touring under his belt. Greene’s newest album, “Giving Up The Ghost” is by far his best work as an artist. He is currently living in San Francisco and touring various places along the east and west coast, although he is scheduled to play 14 shows with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) in New York City at the Nokia Theater beginning on Halloween night.

After visiting Jackie Greene’s MySpace I was instantly captured by his sound, but what lured me in even further was his past and his progression as an artist. If this isn’t good music, I don’t know what is.