Sannidhi Shukla

“That was the conversation,” Diggs said in an interview with The Daily Californian. “That was the Oakland we were representing.”

I felt guilty for seeing art as a form of escape into some higher, more elite plane of existence instead of just an extension of the life I was already living.

OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES is a welcome introduction to SOPHIE the artist and persona and not just SOPHIE the producer.

That Saturday afternoon, Smith was the guest of honor at an event at the Oakland Museum of California titled “Women in Hip-Hop.”

The band plays its heart out on the record but it hardly reinvents rock — it simply revitalizes the dormant intensity of the genre.

While 'Age Of' is one project among many that imagines a post-human future, Lopatin’s take on a post-apocalyptic universe is downright innovative.

It would be easy to believe that "Ye," Kanye West’s eighth studio album, would be buried under the weight of Kanye’s now-infamous outbursts.

If the album’s title is to be believed, to Clairo this EP serves as little more than a reference point, an introduction, the first part of something, with perhaps many parts yet to come.

Whereas the park had once been open to anyone who came to visit, now, on the festival days it is open only to those who are able to pay for wristbands.

The latest entry to the increasingly crowded Bay Area music festival scene, Blurry Vision Fest made a splash in its debut this weekend at the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland.