John-Paul Shiver

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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.

New Music: DJ Amir unearths jazz-fusion communiqué ‘The Jupiter Effect’

April 29, 2020

Long before the Berlin-based DJ and producer Amir Abdullah became an esteemed music archivist, flying around the globe on the lecture circuit, discussing with...

Support musicians directly this Friday!

April 27, 2020

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again on May 1, looking out for independent artists right now. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

New Music: Vinyl Williams’ visionary sunshine pop goes ‘Azure’

April 26, 2020

When the Los Angeles based musician Lionel 'Vinyl' Williams—grandson of acclaimed film composer John Williams, whose 1977 Star Wars score remains an idyllic cinematic feat—speaks about...

New Music: The bleary-eyed kaleidoscope of Once & Future Band’s ‘Deleted Scenes’

April 21, 2020

From their 2012 start, eclectic Oakland's Once & Future Band always reached for a simple goal—never mind the Kodachrome, dream-catcher, psych-rock veneer. "Progressive rock has a reputation for...

New Music: Yves Tumor rumbles, soars with ‘Heaven to a Tortured Mind’

April 19, 2020

When conducting a Google search for interviews with Yves Tumor, trying to get a handle on one who stays slippery with their personals, the...

New Music: Daedelus pushes into the red with ‘What Wands Won’t Break’

April 15, 2020

The latest LP from Alfred Darlington aka Daedelus, What Wands Won't Break, finds the beatmaker—a long-lasting Southern California electronic music artist and DJ—using his observations...

New Music: On Thundercat’s ‘It is What It Is,’ a fusion of love, life, loss

April 12, 2020

"Funk is anything it needs to be in order to save my life," soothsaid George Clinton, the Godfather of the Funk, into my ear over the phone sometime in...

New Music: Yazmin Lacey’s ‘Morning Matters’ keeps a high vibration

April 9, 2020

It is unfortunate that everything we read, do, and check, as in Right Now, gets processed through a ʻcrisisʻ prism. As much as I...

With Thao’s ‘Phenom’ video, indie enters the Zoom era

April 7, 2020

There's a 24-hour bodega—remember those—in the video for “Meticulous Bird” from 2017 by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, which would fare better if it kept regular...

Burger Boogaloo, other big fests reschedule in COVID wake

April 5, 2020

The forthcoming 11th annual Burger Boogaloo festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park and originally planned for July 11 and 12 has been rescheduled for Halloween weekend due to...