Tonight Raw SF kicks off their 2012 Art and Party campaign with a bang at their new home at 1015 Folsom.  ACTIVATE’ will feature over 30 of San Francisco’s hottest emerging and legendary underground artists coming together to cause a boundary pushing event of unparalleled proportions.  If you need $10 presales head on over to the Lower Branch Facebook page and shoot us a message http://www.facebook.com/LowerBranch.  For more details on the event please click below.

http://www.facebook.com/events/318248591547812/

“Street Sharks are sooo 1994, today it’s all about JET Sharks”

Need we say more?

Yo as you know we are an art website but we also like to share good music from those that support us.  So with that being said Richie Cunning has been sitting on this song for along time.  Live was the only way you could hear but now it is there for the masses.  Thank you RC enjoy.

We would like to congratulate our buddy Ricky Watts on the launch of his brand new site http://www.rickywatts.com

Ricky is DOPE with a capital everything so go on click the picture, go buy some prints throw him in an art show if he’s not busy do whatevs just support!  You can also read Mr. Watts’ 5 finger discount interview here.

“I dont consider myself a photographer im an artist…I grew up around graffiti, taggin Muni, black books, Drawing & writing lyrics.”

Damien Grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District back in the day when the streets of the Mish weren’t so forgiving, long before the hipsters were allowed to move in and pedal their fixies freely.  Back in a time when random dudes like yours truly would have knives pulled out on them followed by a line that meant business “take that shit back to the aves. whiteboy.”  The Mission is still the Mission, will always be the mission but it’s nothing like those days throughout the 90’s.

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If you have not heard of ARYZ you are asleep or maybe even just dead all together. I thought I would give him even more run after his recent October run via our friends at Juxtapoz. Since most of us will not be headed to Spain anytime soon I figured I’d bring Spain’s finest to you. Check the video above of Aryz and his mates doing what they do best and (CLICK HERE) to see some of Aryz’ older flics from last year.

This is why Jeremy Fish RULES!  Still one of our absolute favorite artists in SF.  Peep this throw down over the Aesop Rock track pigs, hidden cut from none shall pass which also featured Mr. Fish’s artwork.  Check game.

Aesop Rock Pigs

Robert is a good friend of ours and when we came across this amazing-ness courtesy of Purebred Productions we had to share. Be sure you show them all love by stopping by Robert’s and Purebred Productions’ pages on face book and hit them with some likes. The same can be done for Lower Branch as well, but you’ve already done that.

(Purebred)
We were inspired to create a series of portraits with Robert after he jokingly said, “I’m owning the rainbow. I like the bright colors, my paintings are usually brightly colored. I have said that when I get cut I bleed rainbow, which is funny for a guy who only wears black.”

Indeed.

photo: Jason Mitchell
sets/retouching: Stacey Ransom
awesomness: Robert Bowen

Robert Bowen

Candy Coated opens Aug 13th

Featuring all new work at Lopogallery

go to http://lopogallery.com/ for details!

Yo, what makes Rey Res the shit? I dunno, but if you have more than five minutes with the man you will soon realize he is one of the most super talented humble human beings on the planet! He is smart enough to know what an ego is but twice as smart to not care about it.

Read More and catch the new video with Dj Custo ( Click Here )

Stevie Jablonsky rules as does Isaac Bidwell.  I would like to introduce them both and tip my hat to Stevie as the newest contributor to Lower Branch.  Check game!

Lower Branch’s July 22nd Anniversary Show at 111 Minna is rapidly approaching and the list of artists keeps on growing.  Among them is New York based artist Isaac Bidwell.  I personally have had a chance to meet with the talented artist a few months back at a show here in SF and was excited to here that he was participating in the Lower Branch Anniversary show.  Isaac is new to the Bay Area art scene, so I put a little Q and A sesh with Isaac together so you can all get to know him a little better

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