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: The albums that shape Nubya Garcia's sound

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

Welcome to Under The Stars, where we(eventually) talk about San Francisco music: past, present, and future. We’ve been doing it for about five years. Thanks for hanging with us. Let us get to it. NUBYA GARCIA AT THE CHAPEL, APRIL 17In the past decade, we’ve witnessed jazz transform itself through a glow-up of new voices suggesting how the music shall next evolve.
5 Tony! Toni! Toné! songs that define their legacy of soul

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

Did you know Oakland’s own Tony! Toni! Toné!, the R&B/Soul band with New Jack Swing accents and balladry that could give Babyface a run for his money on a good day, consisting of family members Raphael Saadiq, Timothy Christian Riley, and D’Wayne Wiggins, was given the honor by SPIN magazine in 2012 of having the 24th greatest band name of all time? Right before the Shitty Beatles. Yep, that’s a name, too.
Logic1000 : DJ-Kicks

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

“Wait, you’re still doing that?” is the psychic text message I receive in my brain from friends, artists, and DJs around the world with whom I played records many years ago when they see that I’m still writing about the DJ-Kicks mix series, which began in Berlin in 1995. Some folks may view it as a DJing 101 tool or, better yet, a hangdog industry self-congratulatory device. Trust, I got critical.
Under the Stars: Peruvian cumbieros Los Mirlos may just be your fave band's fave band

3 weeks ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver |SF Weekly

Welcome to Under the Stars, where we talk about past, present, and future San Francisco music. We’ve been doing it for about five years. Thanks for hanging with us. Let us get to it. SURF BORED AT KILOWATT, SAT/5Southern surf rock outfit Surf Bored is local to San Francisco, fronted by TJ Mimbs, and features a lineup of Bay Area music veterans: Jeremy Lyon (King Dream, Whiskerman), Avi Vinocur (Goodnight, Texas), Chris Tye (Vandella, Suzanimal), and Scott Padden (Bay Ledges).
Under the Stars: 30 years of 'Pulp Fiction', or how a video store clerk changed the sound of cinema

4 weeks ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver |SF Weekly

Sean Baker, director of the Academy Award-winning film Anora, used one of his acceptance speeches at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2 to encourage cinephiles to return to the movie house. “Watching a film in the theater with an audience is an experience,” exhorted Baker. But films themselves, and in some cases, their soundtracks, need to be the centrifugal force pulling people back into the aisles.
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek : Yarın Yoksa - Treble

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

Ever since that little band from Houston with the big name came off tour with Bonobo in 2013, global fusion—as far as the pop charts are concerned—has experienced a serious glow-up. Khruangbin, the world-trotting power trio who plays breakbeats—vintage Wu-Tang or Gregory Isaacs basslines too—under whatever happens to be inspiring the band on that day. Thai rock, Iranian pop, and dub mixed with soul and psychedelia? Sure. That formula tracks. Critically and, more importantly, financially for the band.
Under the Stars: Virtuoso Nubya Garcia's ornate arrangements will leave you plucked at The Chapel

1 month ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver |SF Weekly

Welcome to Under The Stars, where we talk about San Francisco music: past, present, and future. We’ve been doing it for about five years. Thanks for hanging with us. Let us get to it. RAVEN, GNOSISThere is an organic joy in hearing how a DJ begins their set and where it ultimately ends up. What kind of story is it telling? A puffy one with smooth connecting lines that hit herculean heights before descent?
Combo Tezeta's interstellar psychedelic cumbia keeps rising

1 month ago | 48hills.org | John-Paul Shiver |SF Weekly

Oakland-based outfit Combo Tezeta‘s sound is electric, polyrhythmic, and not just a highly danceable blend of instrumental cumbias, chicha, and música tropical inspired by the psychedelic late ’60s and early ’70s in Peru. Sure, psychedelic cumbia is how they identify their vibe, but it’s so much more than that. These brothers are playing real instruments, and deliver a wave full of living reverb and accents that point straight at surf culture.
Roy Ayers wrote the jazz-funk manual

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

With the passing of master musician Roy Ayers, you will read very early on in numerous obituaries about how his composition “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” from his 1976 album of the same name. It has been sampled nearly 200 times by artists such as 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg. The question that needs to be answered, and in some respects points to the enigmatic six-decade career of Ayers, a jazz titan and, as some say, the father of neo-soul, who passed at the age of 84, is why?
Four ways Roberta Flack expressed her creative versatility

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

There are musicians, stars, entertainers, and then there’s Roberta Flack. For any Black kid growing up in a house full of records purchased by their parents, it’s inconceivable to believe Roberta Flack’s music was not a part of your life, like Sesame Street and the fall of the Berlin Wall. From pop music featured in Clint Eastwood movies to affiliations with Les McCann, Flack attained singer-songwriter elite status and garnered message-singer status from Rev.