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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: Werkha strikes dance floor gold with ‘The Rigour’

Widespread critical acclaim on releases from Yazmin Lacey, Kaidi Tatham, and Children of Zeus made underground and mainstream heads around the world acknowledge First Word Records in 2018....

All Ears: 17 music releases to look forward to in 2020

Between embargoes and secret release dates that see artists dropping projects when a Twitter trend is to their benefit, it's a little perplexing assembling a strong...

New music: Orion Sun brings winter warmth with ‘Ne me quitte pas’

Here we are, dead-ass in the January winter of a new decade. Maybe at the brink of war? And the future, like clockwork, Googles up a...

For thriller ‘Uncut Gems,’ an electronic soundtrack of erupting chakras

Daniel Lopatin, AKA electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never, teams up with directors Josh and Benny Safdie a second time to deliver a supernaturalistic score, which documents the inner dreams of...

LA producer Elusive steps into a fidgety ‘Ambient Void’

For his 20-plus year career and the latter part of this decade, Elusive—the Los Angeles based producer—has remained steadfast about that work. Making music with...

Our critic picks 2019’s Music of Note

There is no through-line to this 2019 Music of Note line-up. Just honest music that runs the gamut of progressive soul, breakbeat mayhem, a...

Burger Boogaloo 2020 announces killer lineup

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

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

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

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