DJ Touré: As part of a small handful of talented producers amongst a generation of hopefuls, Touré Duncan aka DJ Touré of the Hieroglyphics is hard at work making music for some of the Bay Area’s top ...

Composer and woodwind/keyboard/percussion multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum advocates "music without borders and says he writes from "a drummer's perspective ...

Born in Berkeley, California in 1960, Peter Apfelbaum started playing drums at the age of three, taking up piano and saxophone in elementary school and forming his first band at age 11. A product of ...

Since 1997, the Oakland, Calif.-based rap group Hieroglyphics has cooked up a variety of organic rap music. The band just released its third full album, The Kitchen. With a penchant for socially ...