Rooftop Radio: SMARTBOMB

Turn up the dial for SFMOMA’s Rooftop Radio, the first-ever summer music party on the museum’s rooftop featuring a fantastic lineup of music talent.

For our first edition, we’re partnering with SMARTBOMB, the producer of “Oakland’s Favorite Experimental Hip-Hop Party” (KQED, 2022), for an unforgettable night of music, dancing, food, and art.

Throughout the evening, tune into live music by KeiyaA, Low Leaf, and Three6Sashia while enjoying delicious food and drinks for purchase, elevated encounters with art, and gorgeous views of the San Francisco skyline.

All attendees will need to have a ticket to attend this event. A limited number of tickets will be available for sale onsite. Tickets are free for guests 18 and younger. ​

Guests 21 and older who intend to purchase alcoholic beverages must have their physical ID card ready.

Schedule

5–6:05 p.m. | Three6Sashia (opening DJ Set)
6:05–6:45 p.m. | Low Leaf (live set)
6:45–7 p.m. | Three6Sashia (transition DJ Set)
7–7:40 p.m. | KeiyaA (live set)
7:40–8 p.m. | Three6Sashia (closing DJ set)

About SMARTBOMB

SMARTBOMB is an Oakland-based creative collective and multimedia/live events platform which shines light on the flourishing creative community of the Bay Area and beyond. SMARTBOMB’s mission is to showcase the dynamic, innovative, and often marginalized voices of independent artistry, embodying the ideals of artistic risks, unapologetic experimentation, and reaching new thresholds of possibility through all mediums of self-expression. Their platforms represent pushing forward vintage futurist movements of music and art while reconnecting and educating each other on cultural roots through the study and experience of sound and art, sampling memories of the past and re-imagining them into new worlds of modern context.

Created in 2013 as a monthly live art/music party in downtown Oakland, SMARTBOMB has been holding essential spaces, and providing resources for artists to be seen, heard, and supported by a nurturing community of like-minded beings, becoming a cultural hub for the ever-burgeoning art/music/culture scene in the Bay Area. In 2017, SMARTBOMB was inducted into the YBCA 100 by Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, celebrating one hundred figures, collectives, and entities pushing culture forward into the future.

About the Artists

keiyaA is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in NYC. Raised in Chicago’s South Side, keiyaA synthesizes her jazz training, R&B sensibilities, and hip-hop upbringing to create new soul sounds inundated with her powerful, sultry voice and dense lyricism. She aims to center the narrative and intellect of the Black woman in the late-stage capitalist world.

keiyaA’s debut album Forever, Ya Girl released on March 27, 2020. Forever, Ya Girl is a nu-soul landscape capturing the life of a Black woman. The project is primarily self-produced and received a “Best New Music” review from Pitchfork as well as placement on several “Best of 2020” lists.

Low Leaf is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and producer that combines an array of genres, ever-expanding in a spectrum of its own. Exploring sound healing and plant consciousness as a part of her spiritual practice has greatly influenced her approach to music, painting, and more recently film-making. In a world of illusion, she insists on using her creative gifts as an instrument of truth, love, and liberation. Her ability to challenge conventions and push the boundaries of artistic expression leaves a lasting impact on those who experience her work.

Three6sashia is an eclectic vinyl DJ whose sets guide us through portals of groove. Having worked at three record stores since age seventeen, Sasha started off on turntables with a crate-digging/beat-making approach. Playing lots of soul, jazz, international, and experimental cuts, Sasha’s selections complement the foundations of this journey and are immortalized by memory. “All my sets have one goal, for everyone in the audience to discover their new favorite song.”

Live Visuals provided by: Erik Wilson + Luke Lasley