John-Paul Shiver
John-Paul Shiver has been contributing to 48 Hills since 2019. His work as an experienced music journalist and pop culture commentator has appeared in the Wire, Resident Advisor, SF Weekly, Bandcamp Daily, PulpLab, AFROPUNK, and Drowned In Sound.
Monophonics return with chest-out soul ‘Chances’
"Chances" the chest-out and sturdy, nimble groover, chronicles, in just over three minutes, the end of a relationship due to all the love which goes, and keeps on going, one...
Broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe revives his CHURCH
Way before old-guard magazines and new-school platform writers, present company included, broke their own minds blathering at the top of their Twitter voice about the current "UK Jazz scene," Mark de Clive-Lowe had...
Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt
When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory.
Trying to sort out the next step, student loans clapping back...
Bumping serious boogie-funk with The Pendletons
E da Boss, one half of Myron and E, aka Eric Boss, and Daniel Meisenheimer aka Trailer Limon, are the root basis, writing, and arrangers of The Pendletons: a boogie-funk, modern...
Midtown Social’s sweet retro soul revives SF’s spirit
Any city worth visiting must have its own inventive quirk. Gotta be something unique about it, right? Cincinnati is known for its Skyline chili, a tasty Mediterranean spiced meat used as...
Beloved techno ex-pat Alland Byallo pops his head in
Calling this new EP Rule of Thirds (Full Bleed Records)—the atmospheric, broken beat-centered project from the California-born-and-raised DJ-producer Alland Byallo—a comeback release, would just be a poor choice. No really. Stop...
From legendary roots, a great new Afrobeat record
Every time Leon "Kaleta" Ligan-Majek—known as simply Kaleta—uses that Fela meets James Brown grunt, leaping from the breadbasket, that's a cultural signpost indicating "get ready." It could be an...
The classic funk gem that inspires one of SF’s best parties
With the most peculiar Frankensteining of crunchy guitar chords and Aquaman sonar wave oscillation, bum-rushing a punched-up, scoundrel-like groove. After unleashing the call: "Time to Release the beast!" (sung-shouted in...
