There are a few... I have RSS feeds from Stash Magazine, Strivin.com by Siccness homie Doxx, and Nation of Thizzlam page on Blogspot. None are really straight up news like that but mostly about new cuts out the Bay, good shit to keep updated by.
You used to be able to RSS this forum and see the newest 5 threads but that shit don't work no more. When it did, I posted up the instructions here:
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?t=202943
Thanks for the mention, Rob.
My site,
STRIVIN' started as an all Bay Area hip hop site, but I've changed that to include hip hop music, news, etc.. from all over because there's tons of good hip hop coming to my inbox from all over the country. Also, it seems like Bay Area artists/labels don't reach out to online media outlets, other than the biggest sites. There's tons of great hip hop blogs out there that rarely post anything about the Bay Area and most likely it's because no one out here takes the time to reach out to these sites. My site gets a meager amount of visits per day (a couple hundred) compared to a place like allhiphop, but my visitors come to my site on a regular basis looking for good, underground hip hop.
Honestly, there's only three Bay Area labels that have reached out to me and consistently get me there releases (either physically or digitally) and those are Apt. 3/DNA, Relevent Music and RCeason. On the flipside I get new songs to post, new mixtapes to post, videos to post, news to post from artists/labels/publicists every single day from the East Coast, down South, etc... I still post a good amount of Bay stuff that I pull from siccness, etc... Hopefully some of the artists/labels out here start recognizing the importance of sending a download track here and there to some of the thousands of hip hop blogs out there. It does help build a buzz.
Sorry for the rambling, but I've been thinking about this for a minute.
If you're looking for a good mix of Bay Area hip hop and hip hop from all around the country, check my site.
http://strivin.com