Posts Tagged ‘funk’
Bored Stiff
December 1st, 2006 | 
Author: MySpace (listen to “State of Art,” “Capricorn”)
Label site
Hometown: San Francisco
Next local show: None planned
Upcoming release: From the Ground Up, 2007
Let it be known: classic hip-hop is back in the Bay Area. San Francisco crew Bored Stiff has quietly resurfaced after six years on hiatus, and brought with it the aesthetics of old-school underground rap: DJs, MCs, ample scratching, salient lyrics, and chill beats. It’s all there in the group’s first three new tracks since 2001’s Ghetto Research — “Spirit of Lee,” “In the House,” and “Maturity” — released on a limited edition sampler that foretells the group’s official return in 2007.
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MySpace (listen to “Last Camel to Vegas;” download “Clickety Clack”)
Official site
Hometown: San Francisco
Next local show: 11/22, Sweetwater (Mill Valley)
Recent release: Fogshack Sessions Vol. 1, 2006
All of the hippie-jam-band-patchouli-herb-and-Birks jokes that can ever be made have already been uttered, so we’ll forgo that part of the program. The jam band concept as we know it hatched in San Francisco during the ’60s, and despite being nationally viable and somewhat distilled 40 years later, it continues to find a loyal following in the City by the Bay. Vinyl formed here in the mid-’90s; with five records now to its name, it’s one of the more established jam bands on the scene.