Best Bay Area Music of 2025 With Special Live in Studio Performances

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’ll look back at KQED’s Best Bay Area Albums of 2025 with our music writers. This year’s list of favorites includes local musicians putting out original hip-hop, punk, salsa, spiritual jazz and rock. We’ll hear live in studio performances from musicians that made the list – Oakland hip-hop artist Jamel Griot and instrumental band Arts and Crafts – and we’ll talk about the local musicians topping your playlists. Guests: Nastia Voynovskaya, editor and reporter, KQED Arts Pendarvis "Pen" Harshaw, columnist, KQED Arts Jamel Griot, hip hop and soul artist Jeff Klein, drummer, Arts and Crafts Noam Teyssier, guitarist, Arts and Crafts Nadia Aquil, bassist, Arts and Crafts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're here with one of my favorite shows on our annual
0:49.0	calendar. It's when we talk with our friends on the arts and culture team about their
0:53.1	favorite music of the year.
0:55.0	This year we've added a new component.
0:58.0	We're going to hear two acts perform live here in the studio.
1:01.0	First up, local band Arts and Crafts is going to play us in.
1:06.0	The song is Ri. I'm going to be. I'm going to and you know
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