Thank you all for supporting 38thNotes into the new year, we appreciate you all. Though we are still troubleshooting and tweaking the site, the content is gonna keep coming.So without further ado, the latest Throwback joint we’re featuring is the video [...]

I keep saying I’m gonna start a weekly Thursday Throwback post on this site to highlight the rich musical history here in the Bay Area. As you may have noticed however, many Thursdays have passed without any such post, and now, here it is a Monday night, [...]

This isn’t as old as most 38thNotes’ throwbacks, but I came across this cut off Martin Luther’s 2004 sophomore album Rebel Soul Music and had to throw it up. My girl put me up on Martin Luther a few years back, and it just so happens that ol boy is from [...]

Dru Down is an Oakland OG, as you can tell by his dated press and curl (seen below at Oaklandish’s Salsa by the Lake event last month). And though OG status is something to be honored and respected, a press & curl in ’09 Dru? That’s like pushing a covered [...]

Here is an old 70s gem I unearthed recently from the San Francisco girl group Luscious Three. Unfortunately this record was pressed on styrene which makes the high notes fuzzy, but “Take Me As I Am” is a dope cut regardless.This is also the start of a [...]