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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · Sep 24
🚨Hey there! Check out SF's Arts + Culture-Music Column: Under the Stars! @48hills.bsky.social
Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople
Jessy Lanza @hyperdub.bsky.social
Prince's Around the World in a Day, get a 3-LP deluxe edition.

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Under the Stars: The necessary genius of Saul Williams (and friends) - 48 hills
Plus: Prince's worldly curveball, Jessy Lanza's tender life slap, Armed Byrd takes flight, more new music
48hills.org
padlife.bsky.social
Under the Stars: Mr. Washington blows into town
Plus: Alice Coltrane live, Fake Your Own Death, Park Shadow, Sessa, and it's 3am in SF—do you know where Lolo Zouaï is?

✒️ @48hills.bsky.social

#SFJAZZ

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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
padlife.bsky.social
🔔Hear ye, hear ye! We’d like to indulge your ⏺️ addiction with 6 vinyl reissues from Summer/Fall 2025.
Sharon Jones to De La Soul, with some So-Do in the middle too.
The column is Heavyweight.
@daptonerecords.bsky.social

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6 Great vinyl reissues from Summer/Fall 2025 - Treble
Sharon Jones, Sly and the Family Stone, Manu Dibango and more
www.treblezine.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
padlife.bsky.social
Tom Brady knows the Humpty Dance?

Learn something new erryday, mang.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
padlife.bsky.social
"Great things start in little rooms. We started in a little room." — André 3000 at Rock 7 Roll Hall of Fame last night-------
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
padlife.bsky.social
My boss, Marke B, @48hills.bsky.social featured a very insightful interview with François Kevorkian.
His anthemic remix of "You're The One For Me" by D-Train was not just proto-house; it established a template and left a deep cultural imprint.
ENJOY:

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Dance music legend François K: 'I can't cry for DJs who feel challenged to play for two hours' - 48 hills
Rare interview with 71-year-old trailblazer before SF appearance delves into past, present, and forward-looking sounds.
48hills.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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48hills.bsky.social
SF sure has a rich history of psych-pop groups, but @magicfig.bsky.social may be its to celebrate the works of Camille Flammarion, a 19th century French astronomer and author with a deep interest in the spiritual and metaphysical realms #UnderTheStars
Under the Stars: A sip of Magic Fig's 'Valerian Tea' - 48 hills
Plus: A PJ Harvey classic at 25, 37 Houses hit Knockout, Thundercat's Baked Potato, Eris Drew's mighty kicks, more music
48hills.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
padlife.bsky.social
🫖Sippin Magic Fig's "Valerian Tea"
Up next for !K7's DJ-Kicks mix series: Eris Drew
Under The Stars.... ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social

37 Houses hit Knockout, Thundercat's Baked Potato

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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"It’s a hands-up, hands-down celebration from one of this generation’s most exploratory jazz composers, with Jeff Parker being close right there with him." — @padlife.bsky.social's @treblezine.bsky.social review of Makaya McCraven's new EPs www.treblezine.com/makaya-mccra...

@intlanthem.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
padlife.bsky.social
For Makaya McCraven, a revelatory wild-card release
@nonesuch.com
"A version of jazz, not the straight-ahead album configuration (the title Off The Record delivers the sentiment), 4 you to find the music. Or 4 the music to find you.
✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social

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Makaya McCraven : Techno Logic; The People's Mixtape; Hidden Out; PopUp Shop - Treble
The jazz bandleader and drummer's simultaneous four new EPs showcase the breadth of his explorations
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November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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simplyedc.bsky.social
Remember record stores?

When music wasn’t in the cloud. #Truth 😎
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Geese covered the Velvet Underground and the Stooges in San Diego 🤡
Geese Cover The Velvet Undergound And The Stooges In San Diego
Geese are currently on tour in support of their excellent new album Getting Killed, and it’s been an eventful one so far: Last week in Colorado, the Brooklyn band raffled off the remains of a flat tir...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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beatlesbookspod.bsky.social
It’s here! Highly recommended- lovely mostly unseen pictures, genuinely insightful new interviews, generous coverage to all Wings eras. 5⭐️
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
padlife.bsky.social
After-Halloween edition of Under The Stars!

✒️ @48hills.bsky.social

#NOISEPOP first drop

Jay Som returns
Nas gets symphonic
East London's Yazmin Lacey swirls in teal
SML asks, "How You Been?"
Crucial Reggae Sundays
Plus, Sail On, Ace Frehley of #KISS 🕊️

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Under the Stars: Noise Pop phase one beams in Cali power players - 48 hills
Plus: RIP Ace Frehley, Jay Som swings back strong, Nas knocks with symphonics, Yazmin Lacey's quiet conquest, more music
48hills.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
padlife.bsky.social
🎃Happy birthday, Ad-Rock.🎃
#repost

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The Beastie Boys : Check Your Head at 30 | Treble
After dropping off the charts and off the radar of their label, on Check Your Head, Beastie Boys started fresh.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
padlife.bsky.social
tired man
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
padlife.bsky.social
Such an indie-rap classic
written about superbly over at @treblezine.bsky.social
by the big guy Jeff.

Happy Halloween 🎃

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Dr. Octagon : Dr. Octagonecologyst | Hall of Fame | Treble
The release of Dr. Octagon's 1996 album 'Dr. Octagonecologyst' showcased one of hip-hop's wildest acts of reinvention
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October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
padlife.bsky.social
#repost
But actually these are the best songs from that psychotic comedy-drama streaming series that America love-hates.

Peep these needle drops from The Bear.

(then go check that Bruce joint in theaters)

✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social

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The best songs in The Bear, season 4 - Treble
Tangerine Dream, Talk Talk, The Pretenders and more
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October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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sternbergh.bsky.social
BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin
Bearded man at a lunch counter in blue t-shirt
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
padlife.bsky.social
#repost #jazz
Miles Davis Bitches Brew: It’s not just Miles that makes the record so special; it’s the people behind him, the collective whole.
#RIP Jack DeJohnette

Let us revisit

✒️ for @48hills.bsky.social

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Out of the Crate: When 'Bitches Brew' put us all on notice - 48 hills
Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations with electronic, funk-rock, and experim...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
padlife.bsky.social
Traces, Cahl Sel’s debut album, is another “all hardware recording.” It ups the ante, casts our ears and hearts into wiry-wavey synth patterns & flickering tempos that never get pushed to cut-and-paste banality.

✒️ @48hills.bsky.social #review

#ReflectiveRecords

#SF

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Under the Stars: For Cahl Sel, electronic experimentation is a family affair - 48 hills
Plus: Akiko Yano's 1970s live love, Harvey Sutherland's top five house records, a new Ghostly Crushed, more music.
48hills.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
padlife.bsky.social
Unc; ain't playin.....
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"When Classic Album Sundays began, it was simply Colleen telling the story of a record before playing it in full. Then artists started to join her, first tentatively, later as the defining feature of the project."

Classic Album Sundays: The Art of Listening (Part 2):
Classic Album Sundays: The Art of Listening (Part 2)
Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy explores how deep listening connects musicians, engineers, and the people who care to really hear.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
padlife.bsky.social
BOOM💥
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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48hills.bsky.social
Nostalgic without mimicry, wistful without cheapening techniques, The Telephone Numbers live up to their credo “pure pop for sad people.” #UnderTheStars @padlife.bsky.social
Under the Stars: Ring up the Telephone Numbers for simpler times - 48 hills
Plus: Korean sludge metal from Gawthrop, Brian Auger's '60s cool, miido's UKG ripper, Stylolive goes Santana, more music
48hills.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM