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John-Paul Shiver

San Francisco

Contributor at 48 Hills

Writer at Freelance

Contributor at Treble Zine

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

    Happy Juneteenth, everyone. It’s Under The Stars. A quasi-weekly column that presents new music releases, upcoming shows, opinions, and other adjacent items. We keep it moving, hustling with the changes, thinking outside the margins. We’ve been doing this for five years… Spend some time with us…RON TRENT, LIFT OFF (RUSH HOUR MUSIC)If you tell me that it’s time for a Ron Trent long player, I will pleasantly respond, “Yes.

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

    Released in the latter part of 1967, A Whole New Thing, the debut record by Sly and The Family Stone for Epic/CBS Records, was a direct account of where Bay Area multi-hyphenate producer, DJ, musician, and creator Sly Stone was traveling at the time. The LP moves fluidly through rock, R&B, funk, and psychedelic circlesto Sly, as always, it was just music. In the joyous overshare documentary by Questlove, aka Ahmir K.

  • 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. But hey, 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 complicated….out there. Spend some time with us.

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

    So we have it on record from festival organizers that the Mill Valley Music Festival welcomed over 8,000 attendees from across the Bay Area (and beyond) for a vibrant weekend celebration.” Now that’s about 2,000 short of last year’s totals, but hey, as least youngsters and newbies had the opportunity to see Nile Rodgers & Chic one time in their lives.

  • 1 month 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.

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