Oh Dang! reviews
By Oh Dang!
With our print issue in hand, we headed out to Las Vegas earlier this week for the MAGIC fashion trade show, determined to get the magazine in hands. Check the highlights...
By Kimberly Turner
Renowned super producer DJ Spinna is ready to wreck some eardrums with his latest release, Sonic Smash...
By Darren Chapel
What happened to Cage at a young age has given him an arsenal of painful memories to concoct his morose and catchy flows from. I guess helping your dad shoot heroin will do that to a kid...
By Jan C. Ferrer
Hollywood Holt--emcee/b-boy/moped gang leader/party rocker extraordinaire--displayed intense energy at the Rickshaw Stop last week for 24Karat Milkcrate's premier event...
By Zoneil Maharaj, Photos by Lorenzo Escalante
It doesn’t seem odd at all to see a non-traditional hip-hop audience selling out San Francisco’s historic Warfield Theatre. It’s the kind of crowd that geeks out to P.O.S.’ “De La Souls” because it pays tribute to both De La Soul and Bouncing Souls...
By Kimberly Turner
Exported from Angola to Portugal, Kuduro is spreading like chicken pox at a daycare center to clubs all over the world. It’s most notable ambassadors are Buraka Som Sistema...
By Krys Simon
A homage to the spirit of Ukiyo-e, Seattle-based Jonathan Wakuda Fischer incorporates traditional Japanese woodblock prints, urban stencil art, and a variety of vibrant colors in his latest collection...
By Aaron Williams
On the track “That’s That,” DOOM asks: “Can it be I stayed away too long? Did you miss these rhymes while I was gone?” The answer is...kind of...
By Krys Simon
1 AM Gallery recently hosted its premier photo exhibition, "Most Finished," featuring the works of Ken Goto, Orly Locquiao, Dylan Maddux and Abe Menor...
By Enoch
It’s clear from the intro that Keelay & Zaire's debut album, Ridin’ High, is going to take you on a west coast, soul-filled, funky journey...
By Aaron Morrison
With Troubadour, Somali-Canadian rapper and musician K’naan creates a heartfelt and, at times, ironically nostalgic and self-deprecating reminder that the Somali experience is more than media-sensationalized genocide...
By Oh Dang!, Photos by Jan C. Ferrer and Krishna Horachaikul
Wow. The Medium Rare grand opening party was bonkos. About 600 beautiful people made their way to 111 Minna Gallery to party with us...
By Kimberly Turner
Long Beach indie emcee Blu must never sleep. After dropping two releases in under a year, he has teamed up with producer Mainframe for his latest project, Johnson&Jonson. This self-titled album packs plenty of hits to leave listeners feeling powder fresh...
By Oh Dang!, Photos by Gretchen Robinette
The legendary Digable Planets returned to the Bay Area on Thursday, Sept. 11, ripping through classics like "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" and "Nickel Bags" to a packed house at DNA Lounge...
By Oh Dang!, Photos by John Coyne (www.caughtinthescramble.com), Jan C. Ferrer, and Alex Welsh (lightstalkers.org/alex_welsh)
Last Wednesday was ridiculous. Niko Villamor, Hopie Spitshard, Bambu, The Jacka and Pacific Division ripped it, each in their unique fashion. Peace to everyone who came out and packed the house on a weeknight...
By Sam Devine
RMXXOLOGY, a compilation of remixed songs from Delicious Vinyl's archives, is laced with the unexpected and pushes the music into new territory. It doesn’t always go places you want to go, but for the most part it’s a surprising, funky album that breathes new life into good tracks that haven’t been heard for a while...




