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.

Arts + Culture

Burger Boogaloo 2020 announces killer lineup

December 10, 2019

Alice Bag, who fronted first-wave LA punk band The Bags and appeared in Penelope Spheerisʻ eye-opening 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, adapted...

Kamaal Williams brings London’s nightlife jazz explosion to SF

December 9, 2019

When the South London artist Kamaal Williams, aka Henry Wu, comes to 1015 Folsom on Fri/13 (with Jazzy Jeff as part of the Motown on Mondays...

Goldie returns to revive SF’s golden age of drum and bass

December 8, 2019

If the early 1990s are regarded as the golden age of European techno, a theory recently put forth by British electronic music royalty Kirk...

Review: MF Robot’s ‘Finders Keepers’ pushes a rolling funk momentum

November 29, 2019

When Brand New Heavies burst on the scene in the late '80s appropriating fashion and funk music cues from the 60ʻs, they were part...

Talking beat evolution with SF native producer Dave Aju

November 28, 2019

For years, Marc Barrite built out his Dave Aju alias, a wordplay nom de plum for a San Francisco techno night in the early...

5 artists you can’t miss from Noise Pop’s second wave

November 25, 2019

Facilitators of Noise Pop, the annual independent music festival that takes place in San Francisco the week of February 24th-March 1st, just announced their...

Brittany Howard’s fearless ‘Jaime’ blasts racism’s specter

November 19, 2019

With "Jaime", a fearless debut solo album from Brittany Howard (appearing Fri/22 at the Fillmore, SF), the incendiary lead singer of Alabama Shakes, there...

Kumail’s ‘Yasmin’ tunes into a celestial radio show

November 17, 2019

Art is based on the inability to predict how it will be received. Sometimes as a DJ you get tired of breaking fools' ankles. Kumail Hamid did....

Defying genre, Pursuit Grooves flies high with ‘Bess’

November 15, 2019

While researching Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, Pursuit Grooves, aka Vanese Smith, read about her bringing Bessie Colemanʻs photograph along for the journey into...

Son Little’s gritty takes on vintage R&B run deep

November 6, 2019

Itʻs been three years since Son Little, the musical nom de plume of LA’s Aaron Earl Livingston, earned a Grammy Award for steering the...