38th Notes & Oaklandish’s “Notes To Oakland” Project Live on Public Radio
June 30th, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in 38th Notables, Events, Featured, History
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting our Notes To Oakland project with Natalie Nadimi of Oaklandish on a live radio show called Hear Here on San Francisco public radio station KALW. For those of you unaware of Notes To Oakland, it was [...]
38thnotes.com’s Bay Abridged Mixtape Is Back!!
May 11th, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Featured, Mixtape Reviews, Music, The Bay Abridged
This spring we are relaunching The Bay Abridged mixtape series with local luminaries Oaklandish. The end product is a tape that sums up the eclectic nature of our dynamic hip-hop and R&B scene here in the Bay Area. DL and Listen!
Music You Should Download: Rafael Casal’s Mean Ones LP
March 4th, 2012 | by niema | published in Featured, Mixtape Reviews, Music
“Mediocre is a part of our culture,” Rafael Casal riffs on the title song for his solo project, Mean Ones. But one listen to the LP and it’s clear that the Bay Area raised, Los Angeles based MC’s tracks are far from pedestrian. The Bay Boy enlisted The [...]
How Bay Area Musicians Celebrate Valentines Day
February 27th, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Featured, Music
The Bay Area is enshrouded in stereotypes. Some see us as huge proponents of pimp culture, others remember us as free love hippies, and still others know us as eclectic cool kids with a nose for the next. Well this Valentines season, we were treated to [...]
Video: Bay Area Bands on Soul Train
February 18th, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Featured, History, Music
In the wake of Don Cornelius’s passing, much has been said about the cucumber-cool Cornelius and his long-running and iconic show, Soul Train. I won’t wax poetic about the show’s societal impact and influence because it’s been done by many who can say [...]
Music Video: Krypto, Los Rakas & The Jacka: “Gyangsta”
February 7th, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Art, Featured, Music
Haters are as old as the earth is round. I bet you there were Neanderthals who made cave paintings to clown rival hunters with less prowess. 5 pence says that medieval chamber maids put the kings’ mistresses on blast at the market and that knights [...]
Happy 138th Birthday to Oakland’s Gertrude Stein!
February 3rd, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Art, Featured, History
Author and art collector Gertrude Stein holds an infamous place in Oakland lore. She is the source of the often un-contectualized and misused quote, “there is no there, there,” frequently used to down Oakland. Beyond that, not many Oaklanders are too familiar with her.
Too $hort Speaks on the Efficacy of the Hyphy Sound
February 2nd, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Featured, Music
Too $hort is the godfather of Bay Area rap and the independent hustle. His music may strike you as misogynistic and gross, but he’s a very smart man. If you’re an up-and-coming emcee, when he talks, you listen. The gospel $hort is preaching these [...]
Needed Perspective on Occupy Oakland from Kazu Haga
February 1st, 2012 | by Coolhand Luke | published in Featured, History
In 1968 Armory Douglass wrote a book entitled, Oakland’s Not For Burning. Douglass himself was no real authority on Oakland or it’s social movements, as he was a Yale-educated Wall Street Lawyer who tried to ice out the Printers union on behalf of the [...]
