jazz Archives - White Crate

“I channel the flower power tender resistance of the 60s and 70s.” Interview with Mae Powell

Singer-songwriter Mae Powell has been spreading peace, magick, and radical self-love across the Bay Area since 2016. With a gorgeous, […]

2025-05-01

Piwai blends traditional rhythms from her native Zimbabwe with contemporary soul, jazz, and R&B to craft a sound unique here […]

2025-04-27

The Grease Traps are an eight-piece funk and soul group based in Oakland. Made up of rare funk 45 record […]

2025-04-23

Just another night in late 1960s SF… Decades before Spacemen 3 put their druggy, time-bending guitar visions to tape, an […]

2025-02-25

"In many respects this entire work is inspired by and is an homage to the work of the composer Julius […]

2025-02-02

What makes an album like Donuts by J Dilla so supremely relistenable? It's the beats. The rhythms. The breaks. Tapping […]

2025-01-09

"This shit from Oakland with love" Big Boi played a tiny secret show in SF last weekend, but that wasn't […]

2025-01-06

It's here! All the best music from the Bay Area in 2024. Or at least the best of everything we […]

2024-12-17

It's here! All the best music from the Bay Area in 2024. Or at least the best of everything we […]

2024-12-17

It's here! All the best music from the Bay Area in 2024. Or at least the best of everything we […]

2024-12-15