Ye (Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 12, 2024. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Controversial rap superstar Kanye West brought his Vultures listening party to an enthusiastic and sizable crowd at Chase Center Tuesday night. The event, which featured Ty…

SG Lewis, “AudioLust & HigherLove.” SG Lewis knows the value of a dynamics in music. Having worked with the likes of Elton John, Dua Lipa and Tove Lo as a producer and cowriter, the British artist is familiar with how to craft a song from many different sources of…

On his fifth album, Vince Staples returns to his hometown of Long Beach, Calif. to reflect on his connections with the hood. Ramona Park Broke My Heart, offers a look into the connections he holds with the place, balanced with with themes of loss and love. It’s surprisingly not as heavy…

While Live Life Fast, the second album by Roddy Ricch, has a promising premise—how living to excess can be tempting but isn’t sustainable—Roddy struggles to deliver on this thematic structure. Live Life Fast Roddy Ricch Atlantic, Dec. 17 6/10 Live Life Fast features a series of excellent instrumentals, but Roddy Ricch…

G-Eazy, “These Things Happen Too.” Everyone has regrets, and G-Eazy holds his share. His fourth LP, These Things Happen Too, finds G-Eazy having to grapple with the fallout of his failed relationships, the toll that drug abuse has taken on him artistically and personally, as well as the self-doubt that he’s…

Few musicians today can compete with the resume of Stephen Bruner, better known as Thundercat. Bruner developed his virtuosic stringmanship alongside some of L.A.’s brightest talents. He was instrumental to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly (widely regarded as Lamar’s best) and collaborated on albums by Erykah Badu and jazz bandleader…

Clockwise from top left: San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Ceremony, Hundredth, MONO/POLY, Jacques Greene and Cadence Weapon, and Jake Clemons. With so much music coming out at once, it’s easy to stick to what you know and avoid the intimidating ocean of tunes. Daunted music lovers can count on RIFF to…

G-Eazy performs at The Endless Summer Tour at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA on July 29, 2018. Photos: Cameron Tuech MOUNTAIN VIEW — Oakland native G-Eazy brought his Endless Summer Tour to Shoreline Amphitheatre Sunday night. It was the closest thing to a hometown show for the rapper, who emerged from…

Photos: Alessio Neri BERKELEY — Ty Dolla $ign brought his “Don’t Judge Me” tour at The UC Theatre on the penultimate night of the 2018 Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival. The Angeleno rapper (real name Tyrone William Griffin Jr.) kicked off his sold-out show with “Wavvy,” “Saved” and “Blasé.” He also performed his…