John-Paul Shiver

San Francisco

Record & Burrito addict writing about music you need to hear... 4eva wading in the Cosmic slop Bylines: @treblezine @residentadvisor @AFROPUNK @48hills

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Under the Stars: Mononeon's rolling funk—and glorious 'fits—will make you believe - 48 hills

3 days ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver

Some beautiful hip-hop, R&B, and funk is in our midst this week, plus local fave Madeline Kenney delivers more wildcard magic, boogified shuffle from Ubiquity Records, and Andy Shauf returns with warm Foxwarren. It’s Under The Stars, people. Spend some time with us…WILD GLORIOSA, GROWING PAINSThe traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne is Naarm.
Super-crew KAMM honors its Ayand Byallo and his lower Haight legacy with final LP

6 days ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver

“Your Honour,” the third track on Let The Light In—supposedly, the final album of Berlin-based producer crew KAMM—bangs on swimmingly, with a bossa nova-adjacent chart that addresses our current political state with all the intricacy of uptempo jazz. Burn through the rubbish? It does.
5 streaming series with serious 'take me away' vibes

6 days ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver

Between the presidential election taking all the air out of the room, actors’ strikes, and the last stretch of the pandemic’s wrath delaying productions in the works, there was a scarcity of new streaming shows for platforms and avid TV watchers last year.
Under the Stars: Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club's bang Taoist folklore, South Asian samples

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

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 The Conversation was born from a special deal the director leveraged with Paramount that got Godfather II made, is my second favorite Gene Hackman film, and almost my favorite San Francisco film.
Prince : Around the World in a Day

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

The success of Purple Rain—movie, album and phenomenon—jettisoned Prince from minimal success on Black radio in the 1980s to heavy rotation on a predominantly white MTV. This was a major feat for an obscure R&B artist who once opened for The Rolling Stones earlier in that decade and was booed off the stage.
Emma-Jean Thackray : Weirdo

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

There’s not a cool point, nor a poseur sitch, to be found on the just-released, bold, and devastatingly compelling project from the West Yorkshire-born bandleader Emma-Jean Thackray.Written, performed, recorded, mixed, produced, and arranged entirely in her South London flat, Weirdo was originally conceived as a strategy to speak about her struggles with mental health—Thackray is autistic and has ADHD. “I’ve had the word ‘weirdo’ thrust upon me as an insult.
Attack of the summertime music festivals

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

Coming off of an alarming 2024, where 90 music festivals were canceled worldwide due to oversaturation, weather-related problems, and climate change, the business of music festivals is in correction. According to Billboard, 60 percent of Coachella tickets this year were paid via payment plans, which points to the vulnerability of the economy.
Under the Stars: Tune-Yards return, Now wows, Buzzed Lightyear pops a cold one

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

Hey. Welcome to Under The Stars, where we talk about San Francisco music: past, present, and future. A 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 it for about five years. Thanks for hanging with us. Let us get to it.
Mark De Clive-Lowe : past present (tone poems across time)

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

I was impressed to see an interview in Rolling Stone last summer with none other than the genre-breaking, one-of-a-kind Japanese New Zealander, certified modern jazz musician, Mark de Clive-Lowe. (No shade against the legacy platform; they’re covering high-caliber culture-specific dance music now, too?
Under the Stars: A hometown electronic hero's swan song sees the light

3 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 out there. So spend some time with us.