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John-Paul Shiver

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

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’

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

"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

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

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

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...

New Music: Isaac Aesili’s ‘Hidden Truths’ brings elegant electronic grooves

Released just a couple of weeks after the spring equinox, Issac Aesiliʻs sophomore release unfurls before a turbulent planet with the elegant poise of jejune lilies...
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Silenced in place? SF’s resilient music scene faces its latest obstacle

As Broken Horse, an enduring San Francisco band that calls its oeuvre Western Doom Noir, erupted into tuning instruments at its Rite Spot comeback show...

50 years of Jimi Hendrix’s radical, redefining ‘Band of Gypsys’

By the time Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys—released on Capitol Records March 25, 1970—came together for their two-night performance at the Fillmore East on New Years 1970, with...

New Music: ‘Who Sent You?’ asks free jazz combo Irreversible Entanglements

"We’re living in the present, and there are pressing issues that are happening to us personally," stated bassist Luke Stewart of the free-jazz outfit...
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