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: Monophonics’ ‘It’s Only Us’ summons classic soul’s expansive phase

March 18, 2020

Veteran San Francisco based psychedelic soul outfit Monophonics seem to be going through a "thing." Their latest record Itʻs Only Us (Colemine Records) with the first three song titles "Chances," "Suffocating," and the...

Staying in? Binge on mixtape romance ‘High Fidelity’

March 13, 2020

In the updated, rebooted, race and gender-swapped HULU 10-part series High Fidelity, adapted from the 1995 Nick Hornby classic novel (made into a hit movie in...

New Music: Rejoicer’s ‘Spiritual Sleaze’ brings attention to the Israeli beat scene

March 10, 2020

Yuvi Hawkin, the Tel Aviv-based producer who records using the moniker Rejoicer, chops up and filters a confluence of styles ranging from neo-fusion jazz,...

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Noise Pop snaps, crackles, and jangles with surprises and new favorites

March 6, 2020

Facilitators of Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival know the key to running a successful week-long bill of shows throughout the Bay Area, which extended...

New Music: Okay Kaya’s ‘Watch This Liquid Pour Itself’ laughs through the tears

March 6, 2020

In another world, minus the music, Kaya Wilkins, the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Norway producer and songwriter, could use her Okay Kaya performance model to do edgy stand-up material....

The wonder-chops of Thundercat

March 4, 2020

With chops like Jaco Pastorius and the humor of Frank Zappa, Stephen Brunerʻs shell game is out the bag. The Los Angeles bass wiz known...

Last call at beloved live music mainstay Amnesia

March 2, 2020

People were hastily rushing into 853 Valencia early Saturday evening, Leap Day, seeking refuge from the hostile winds blowing down the corridor. Change was...

New Music: The Seshen’s sonic-visual journey through ‘Cyan’

February 26, 2020

Forget it. This version of longtime favorite band The Seshen (playing Thu/27 at Rickshaw Stop)—where lead vocalist and lyricist Lalin St. Juste emancipates herself and this...

Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke still defines contemporary cool

February 25, 2020

Mulatu Astatke’s Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972, re-issued by Strut Records in 2017, captures a seminal moment in Ethiopian Jazz: THIS was a certain certain type of mood,...

New Music: Stone Foxes polish their rock into ‘Gold’

February 23, 2020

Through numerous lineup changes over the years, San Francisco outfit The Stone Foxes—playing the Independent Sat/29, as part of Noise Pop 2020—formed in 2005...