G-funk beats and flows on "91 Owl," a toast to SF by Dregs One and Max Kane
Photos from the White Crate 3-year anniversary party plus new synth pop by Loveshadow on Dark Entries Records and rave magic by Bored Lord
Deep love and gratitude to everyone who came out to the White Crate anniversary party last weekend — and to anyone who has supported us the past three years!
Thanks to everyone who came out and bought our new tees, we’ll be sending a $300 donation to the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), which serves poor and working class Arabs and Muslims across the Bay Area, while organizing to overturn racism, forced migration, and militarism.
BTW! If you subscribe to our Patreon, we’ll mail you one of the new shirts free!
Decolonize the Bay Area.
Be a good neighbor.
Support artists. Support artists. Support artists.
— White Crate (photos by Chris Caceres)
A LOVING RAP ODE TO SF
“Don’t ever question my city
We got a strong legacy and we still going
I represent every single part of San Francisco
I got love for everyone that got love for us”— Dregs One
With visual references to Candlestick Park and the strip clubs in North Beach, lyrical references that never leave the streets, and a title inspired by the special nighttime-only Muni service whose route encircles the city, 91 Owl: Heaven Or Hell is a serious contender for one of hip hop’s greatest odes to San Francisco. Max Kane provides the production—all G-funk-inspired beats—while Dregs One has a ball, unapologetic in offering up love and respect to the city. “Real San Franciscan” is the centerpiece, but the SF love and inspiration flows across all six tracks, all plush pride and passion.
Dregs One & Max Kane produced less than 10 copies of the new album on 12″ vinyl (including both full songs and instrumentals), and are offering them through Bandcamp “by offer only.”
— Ronny Kerr
HONEY STICKY SYNTH POP
Thick honey sticky bass and powdered sugar synth lines open up “Last Room,” the opening track to II by Loveshadow. It’s their first full-length on Dark Entries Records, arriving two years after their self-titled debut on Amsterdam label Music From Memory. The duo’s Anya Dross and Izaak Schlossman write and produce irresistible slow-grooving disco jams that nod to electronic pop and R&B legends Sade, Kate Bush, and Ryuichi Sakamoto as much as more contemporary artists like Nite Jewel and Poolside. Easing from downtempo to midtempo and back, it’s sultry, transcendent, and seductive from cover to cover. In another era, they would’ve called this “baby-making music.” Instead, let’s call it the soundtrack to graceful love.
— Ronny Kerr
LOVE & BREAKS
“I want the industry people to be confused while the ravers understand the very moment they press play. I want to challenge everyone to name it.” — Daria Lourd
Breaks and love, love and breaks. Press play, close your eyes, and let your limbs savor the movement that flows from Name It, the latest full-length album by Bored Lord (aka DJ Daria aka Daria Lourd). No longer a secret, Bored Lord is one of the most acclaimed producers and DJs from the Bay Area underground.
Out now on T4T LUV NRG (the New Hampshire label created by love-and-music partners Eris Drew and Octo Octa), Name It highlights Daria’s pitch-perfect mixing style and joyous use of samples—Is that hysterical flamboyant laughing on “Believe” taken from the 1982 Larry Levan production “Don’t Make Me Wait” by the Peech Boys? Maybe, maybe not. But the exploration and experimentation that Daria plays with through her music and community refracts itself through the beats, channeling a freedom of expression to the listener. There is more to life than suffering, especially when we embrace “prismatic movement in unison with others.”
— Ronny Kerr
SHOW RECS
Our top show recommendations for the coming week:
[rock] Galore, Sob Stories and Yea-Ming & The Rumours — Nov 24 at Kilowatt
[club] Body High ft. BLKSOAP, Amina Acid, Theytee, Varsha — Nov 24 at Fluid 510
[club] Ah-Mer-Ah-Su, Jasmine Infiniti, Beverly Chills — Nov 24 at Asia SF
[club] Nina Kraviz, Max Gardner b2b Adra, Miss Crafty — Nov 24 at 1015 Folsom
[hip hop] LaRussell — Nov 25 at the New Parish
[club] Bored Lord (album release), Bastiengoat, Finishher, Tom Marsi, Lonald J. Bandz — Nov 25 at F8
[experimental] Stellar Void (album release), Kali Ra, Leila Abdul-Rauf — Nov 25 at the Golden Bull
[indie] Sylvester Private Recordings, August 1970: A BFF.fm Listening Party — Nov 28 at private location (shared with ticket purchasers)
[experimental] Matt Robidoux, Mind Mirage, Kaitlin McSweeney — Nov 28 at Thee Stork Club
[punk] Praying, Foglamp, Trough, Jock, DJ Skinwalker — Nov 30 at Thee Stork Club