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New Music: Daedelus pushes into the red with ‘What Wands Won’t Break’

John-Paul Shiver - April 15, 2020

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

John-Paul Shiver - April 12, 2020

"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

John-Paul Shiver - April 9, 2020

It is unfortunate that everything we read, do, and check, as in Right Now, gets processed through a ʻcrisisʻ prism. As much as I...

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

John-Paul Shiver - April 1, 2020

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

John-Paul Shiver - March 30, 2020

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’

John-Paul Shiver - March 25, 2020

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

John-Paul Shiver - March 22, 2020

"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...

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

John-Paul Shiver - 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...

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

John-Paul Shiver - 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,...

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

John-Paul Shiver - 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....

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