Author Adil Siddiqee

I love singles. Singles are exciting -- it’s an artist putting everything on red, hoping that this one song they believe in the most will carry them and their album into the arms of financial, social, and cri...

Los Angeles rapper Lil Peep died Wednesday night before his show in Tuscon, Arizona. He was 21 years old. Born Gustav Åhr, the rising star enjoyed a short period of fame prior to his passing, drawing at...

The Rickshaw Stop is a cozy, snug venue, perfect for indie acts to perform intimate shows at with a small audience. Billie Eilish, given her social media clout and recent explosion in popularity, seems far b...

The San Francisco Bay Area, like any metropolitan zone worth its salt, provides its residents with a healthy concentration of nightclubs, jazz bars, and concert venues. In this series, I’ll be sampling the lo...

In the music video for “Forever,” released in 2009, a 22-year-old Aubrey Drake Graham towers over the camera against a massive backdrop of pyrotechnics and flashing lights. An air horn blares overhead, and ...

One foot on the monitor, surveying the crowd, Thursday’s Geoff Rickley gestured to the giant decorations covering the venue’s wall behind him. The seminal emo act’s logo — a stenciled dove in flight —...

“Break you off, yeah, made myself a boss, yeah…” Future trails off before the hook on “F*ck Up Some Commas,” the fifth song on Monster (2014), replays for the fourth time. The verse ends with his crew...

It swims like a Future album, quacks like a Future album, and slaps like a Future album. FUTURE is a Future album. So it goes. The Atlanta trap lord has nothing to prove to his masses, and has no desire to s...

Depending on when you first heard him, Abel Tesfaye - the man behind The Weeknd - has delivered a variation of impressions. Those who first heard of The Weeknd when he released one of the mixtapes within his Tr...

If you and yours are tired of studying/chilling/euphemism-ing to Top 40 R&B, try some neo-soul. It's a good time to get into it, considering artists like Solange, Xenia Rubinos, and Frank Ocean have release...

Overheard in the backseat of my car last month: “JEFFERY is the hardest shit in existence, man — Young Thug makes 21 Savage look like a five year-old.” “What? Dude, he’s wearing a wedding dress ...

Florida doesn’t have a whole lot going for it these days. If it did, there would probably be more newsworthy headlines coming out of it than the “Florida man on bath salts robs jungle gym with a balloon”-...

Seattle should be proud of its hip hop scene. A roll call of contemporary notables would summon names like Blue Scholars, Grieves, Sadistik -- ‘conscious’ and experimental hip hop artists who proudly wear t...