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Cafe de Casa dishes, clockwise from top left, include rosca de coco, enroladinho de queijo, coxinha, pao de queijo sandwich with avocado, tomato and fresh mozzarella, latte, feijoada with rice, kale and farofa, and an açai bowl.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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At Cafe de Casa in S.F.: feijoada (left) and pao de queijo sandwich with avocado, tomato and fresh mozzarella (right).Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Cafe de Casa in San Francisco.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Adrian Spinelli May 20, 2021
Robert Finley, who began to take his music more seriously after going blind in his 60s, has recorded a fantastic lamentation of a hard life. Photo: Jordi Vidal, Redferns
The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.
NEW ALBUMS
Robert Finley, “Sharecropper’s Son” (Easy Eye Sound)
Lately, I can’t take my attention away from Nashville’s Easy Eye Sound label run by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, and new music from acts like Aaron Frazer, Shannon & the Clams and, of course, the Black Keys. Now we’ve been introduced to Southern soul singer Robert Finley, a man who only fully began to take his music career seriously after becoming legally blind in his 60s.
Adrian Spinelli May 6, 2021
Angel Olsen has released a three-album boxed set. Photo: NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images
The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.
NEW ALBUMS
Angel Olsen, “Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories” (Jagjaguwar)
The Chicago indie folk powerhouse has become one of those prolific artists who merit attention every year with a new release. This time around, it’s a three-album box set of her two most recent LPs, a bonus LP of new material and re-works, plus a 40 page booklet of photos and handwritten lyrics.
Initially intended to be released as a pair, having 2019’s “All Mirrors” and 2020’s experimental “Whole New Mess” in the boxed set allows fans to hear completed versions of Olsen’s songs from the former and a look at the bones and process tracks on the latter. It’s like going to an art museum to see a famous work and being able to wander into a back room to see its charcoal sketch studies.
Adrian Spinelli April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021, 6:51 pm
Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito and his band pose before performing the score during the screening of “Lost Landscapes: Oakland” at Fort Mason Flix during the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo: Pamela Gentile / SFFilm
This week’s Chronicle’s guide covers new music by notable Bay Area artists.
Zion I and Fantastic Negrito, “Try & Try” (Mind Over Matter)
Two pillars of the Oakland music scene have teamed up for this latest release amid the pandemic. As he has done for decades, Zion I’s Baba Zumbi opens with a dizzying, socially conscious flow, spitting, “Not concerned with celebrity/ I’d rather have liberty and justice in the city/ it’s a pity, they don’t trust us.” Three-time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito adds a funky blues hook that highlights their take on community when we need it most.