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.

Fierce rock energy at Miss June’s ‘Bad Luck Party’

November 2, 2019

When you first take a gander at the four-piece New Zealand band Miss June, make sure to pull back just in time to evade their...

Monophonics return with chest-out soul ‘Chances’

October 25, 2019

"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,...

Broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe revives his CHURCH

October 22, 2019

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...

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

October 15, 2019

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...

Bumping serious boogie-funk with The Pendletons

October 10, 2019

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...

Midtown Social’s sweet retro soul revives SF’s spirit

September 29, 2019

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...

Beloved techno ex-pat Alland Byallo pops his head in

September 22, 2019

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...

From legendary roots, a great new Afrobeat record

September 15, 2019

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...

The classic funk gem that inspires one of SF’s best parties

September 7, 2019

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...