Teena Marie
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Teena Marie The news came as a shock from a phone call with my wife, a die-hard fan, who broke the news that Teena Marie, the best musical half of the Funkster, Rick “Super-Freak”...
View ArticleFarewell, Creative Music Emporium, home of Joe and Elba’s love of music and...
by Justin Torres For decades, Joe and Elba Lambert have sold music and given away a storehouse of knowledge. Creative Music, at 26 Ocean Ave. off Mission in San Francisco’s Excelsior District, will...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for January 2013
by Wanda Sabir I remember when I first met Jayne Cortez, I was with Elsie Washington, the late fiction writer who wrote the first Black romance novel, which I owned. A subscriber to the Harlequin...
View ArticleDeja Bryson will be at Yoshi’s in Oakland: an interview wit’ songstress Deja...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR This Sunday Yoshi’s in Oakland will be hosting Richmond songstress Deja Bryson to grace the stage. From the same Bay Area as colleagues Ledisi and Keisha...
View ArticleKev Choice produces Jennifer Johns’ ‘The Chronicles of the Aquarian Mind’
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Kev Choice is one of the instrumental musical talents in the Bay Area who is destined to be known on a mainstream international level. Mark my words....
View ArticleKev Choice releases soon to be classic ‘Oakland Riviera’
by The People’s Minister of Information JR If you take a little Theolonius Monk, mix it with Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, with a little twist of some Lauryn Hill and Curtis Mayfield and put it on an Oakland...
View ArticleRapper Soul performs downtown at Oakland Music Crawl Festival this weekend
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Soul is one of the newer voices from the Oakland music community that will be performing at one of the first music festivals of the year in the Town, the...
View ArticleAt Sista’s Place, Troy Williams finds the liberty and justice he was denied...
by Tina Sampay This is a story about music, radio and the connection to the human spirit. The date is Jan. 10, 1992, and Troy Williams and his cellmate at Pelican Bay Prison are using wire obtained by...
View Article‘SOL Affirmations’: Talkin’ wit’ co-author Karega Bailey
Karega Bailey reads his new book, “SOL Affirmations.” by JR Valrey, The Black New World Journalists Society Karega Bailey is known to most in Oakland as the frontman and rhyme-sayer of the hip hop...
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