John-Paul Shiver

1 week ago | treblezine.com | John-Paul Shiver

The late Lee “Scratch” Perry, a vocalist, musician, studio god, dub creator, and Godfather of Reggae, once told an interviewer that he was 75,000 years old and came from the planet Sirius. Perry had a lifetime full of antics. He liked to talk, spout gibberish, and add to the larger-than-life legacy he’s accrued, but he was no fool.

1 week ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver

Hey, it’s Under The Stars, babe. A quasi-weekly column that presents new music releases, upcoming shows, opinions, and other adjacent items. We keep it moving like insufficient funds, hustling with the changes, and thinking outside the margins. We’ve been doing this for five years… Spend some time with us…PACHYMAN AND MNDSGN AT THE CHAPEL, OCTOBER 28I’m letting you know about this one far in advance, but again, such stellar combo for the price of one is guaranteed to sell out.

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | John-Paul Shiver

It’s been widely documented that Sonny Sharrock—one of the most rousing, first-wave, free-jazz guitarists, noted for dropping gravitational force bombs and whom Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore called “a massive influencer of alternative and outsider guitar”—never really liked guitars, nor ever wanted to play one. “I despise the sound of the guitar,” he said in an interview in 1992, a couple of years before his passing on May 26, 1994, at the young age of 53.

2 weeks ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver

Hey, it’s Under The Stars, babe. A quasi-weekly column that presents new music releases, upcoming shows, opinions, and other adjacent items. We keep moving with the changes and thinking outside the margins. We’ve been doing this for five years, talking about San Francisco music: past, present, and future. Thanks for the hang… We know… it’s rough, like sandpaper, out there. So, spend some time with us.

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | John-Paul Shiver

Everybody is jamming every genre in with jazz these days, yearning to make it contemporary. I’m not against it. But it’s always important to know from whence America’s classical music came, so a proper context can be understood by newbies and seasoned heads alike.