Robert Glasper, Dave Chappelle and Dwyane Wade share the stage at Blue Note Jazz Festival at Silverado Resort in Napa, Calif. on July 29, 2023. Derek Fisher/STAFF. NAPA — Thousands of jazz and hip-hop enthusiasts turned out to the Silverado Resort and Spa on Saturday on the second day…

Pell, courtesy. New Orleans hip-hop artist Pell (Jared Pellerin) spent the first three months of the pandemic split between boredom and action. Living in L.A., where he had opened his own studio, Pell was already more than a year into a new venture that aimed to empower emerging New…

Clockwise from top left: PREP, Yola, Spencer Burton, Tank and the Bangas, Kacey Johansing, Drew Citron and Porches. Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but…

Grammy-winning Oakland musician Xavier “Fantastic Negrito” Dphrepaulezz released the third single from his upcoming album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet, “I’m So Happy I Cry,” which features Tarriona “Tank” Ball of Tank and the Bangas. It’s the first collaboration by two NPR Tiny Desk Contest winners. Fantastic Negrito won…

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. Photos: Steve Carlson. SAN FRANCISCO — Tens of thousands crammed into the meadow in front of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass’ Towers of Gold Stage to see the…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…

Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — The famous dada artist Marcel Duchamp once wrote, “the only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges,” but Duchamp didn’t live long enough to see America give the world soul and hip-hop. Luckily, fans at the Fox Theater on Saturday…