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#repost #JanetJackson #HOF Control turns 40 in February "Janet became a new funkateer and collaborated with musicians associated with Prince, MJ’s rival in the ’80s". ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/janet-jackso...

Happy Birthday, David Bowie! A few years ago, I wrote about the pop star aspect of this cherished cultural icon for @48hills.bsky.social Enjoy! 48hills.org/2023/04/40-y...

In 1999, Rolling Stone called Bottom of the Hill the “best place to hear live music in SF.” After the owners recently announced that they would be closing the venue at the end of 2026, we @48hills.bsky.social decided to share some vivid memories of this special space. 48hills.org/2026/01/with...

Critic @padlife.bsky.social reached out to Bay Area music insiders, producers, venue bookers, DJs, singer-songwriters, and radio officials to get a wider, broader perspective on the year’s music and how it shaped culture.

2025 was a rough one, but the music offered hope and a path forward. I reached out to Bay Area musical minds for insight on the matter and they responded with clarity. Thanks to all who participated. ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2026/01/2025...

New year, new season of Hall of Fame! #JanetJackson's Control turns 40 in February And still—she's ridiculously underrated. Wrote about the beginning of the legacy, and an album nobody really thought would amount to much, for @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/janet-jackso...

The best albums from the Bay Area in 2025 @48hills.bsky.social Our favorite albums of the year highlight many emerging artists you may not be familiar with yet, but keep listening—by 2026, you will be! 48hills.org/2025/12/year...

Under The Stars @48hills.bsky.social #SF Jay Som, Open Mike Eagle, Cupcakke at 2026 Noise Pop Fest A Very Purple NYE at Vogue Theater #RIP Jellybean Johnson of The Time 48hills.org/2025/12/unde...

#2025 Voices We Lost / D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné! #repost ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/5-tony-toni-...

#2025 Voices We Lost / Roy Ayers #repost @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/roy-ayers-tr...

#2025 Voices We Lost / Roberta Flack #repost @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/four-ways-ro...

IN SF TONITE AT 540 BAR

Yes it is @joemuggs.bsky.social Little Rooms Great things Happen In Little Rooms ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/11/unde...

Santa needs to get paid......too

"As creative couplings go, it wasn’t the most obvious alliance: a folk-based singer-songwriter from laidback Laurel Canyon and a mercurial bassist style rooted in jazz fusion and funk. But Mitchell and Pastorius created a unique shared language."

Wrote about the 1985 teen-comedy "A Sure Thing", 80's 🎸solo's & how this 🎥 works as the core origin story 4 "When Harry Met Sally." An overall salute to the genius of Rob Reiner. Thanks to the folks at @treblezine.bsky.social for getting this up so quickly www.treblezine.com/rob-reiner-s...

Ya know I forgot I wrote about the post-punk banger of an album "Is It Now?" from Automatic this year. It's on our 20 Best Punk Albums of 2025 @treblezine.bsky.social @stonesthrow.bsky.social ⌨️ - www.treblezine.com/the-best-pun...

🎤 Sister Nancy/Fake Fruit at The Chapel 💣 "What A Bam Bam" 💣 Newcleus on vinyl The Olympians, cinematic soundscapes LA label, 100% Silk, never misses Funk-jazz saxophonist Karl Denson turns 69 at The Fillmore, post-XMAS ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social It's Under The Stars 48hills.org/2025/12/unde...

With one breath With one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance A dream dance A shared romance Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Nothing is invincible

"Sped-up goth, ’90s counterculture grunge with alt-rock fuzz? Rad. Bet." #UnderTheStars gets into chokecherry's latest album 'Ripe Fruit Rots And Falls' @padlife.bsky.social

💬 - SF buzziest band, chokecherry, gets a glowed-up new release 🕊️ - Jimmy Cliff, global ambassador #RIP 🎧 - UK's K-Lone builds slick/sleek electronic music 🎹 - Maryam Qudus produces La Luz's "Extra" EP #UnderTheStars ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social @subpop.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/12/unde...

Super psyched to see Lunchbox’s “Evolver” on this great list! “Each play reveals another gem from the innocence of DIY recording, blending jangle, electronic, ambient, and dub into something imperfect and genuine. Bravo!”

Excellent list and that black mahogani repress is so warranted and is my personal repress of the year. Lost an original copy of it in a bag that got knicked in my Great Record Bag Disappearence and so happy to have the record back now

Best Of Heavyweight: The Best Vinyl Reissues Lists The Best Reissues of 2025 for @treblezine.bsky.social Moodyman to The Boss Joni to Buckingham Nicks Eddie Hazel to Hüsker Dü ✒️ www.treblezine.com/the-best-rei...

Drag him.

For weeks all the #NFL insiders were drinking that "the injury could actually heal while he's playing" bs kool-aid. Finally came home to roost. DJ should not have been out there in the first place. Get the back-up QB in there and have him hand off to the NFL MVP RB JT Sorry to see this 👇

#rewind Nine years ago this week, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, snatched the damn throne with “Awaken, My Love!” Wrote about this Future Classic for MIMS: www.musicismysanctuary.com/childish-gam...

Your suggestions for @bandcamp.com Friday ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social The Cords Bar Part time Veotis Latchison Pateka Cahl Sel Bored Lord Late Aster SLOPE114 bastiengoat Tortoise @slumberlandrecords.com @intlanthem.bsky.social 💥🎹 48hills.org/2025/12/unde... Links all here 👇

BIG WEEK/THIS WEEK @48hills.bsky.social #seablite calls it quits........has a final hang/show plus other things to do in the bay this weekend ✒️ 48hills.org/2025/12/big-...

Bay Area Anthem 👇🕊️

Tortoise on @intlanthem.bsky.social The Cords on @slumberlandrecords.com 4 @bandcamp.com Friday......

Wore Italian loafers in Space : Cultural Icon

For @bandcamp.com Friday @48hills.bsky.social has Bay Area picks *Programming 🎶 for 2026 SFJAZZ & Castro Theatre bookings * Tortoise release, Beatles' Anthology 4, & new Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama reissue, "Tokyo Funk Diva." UnderTheStars @slumberlandrecords.com 48hills.org/2025/12/unde...

Craft. It's all about craft. There are people who nerd out about musicianship and instruments purely for the sake of complicating their life, they're the ones who get success then end up disappearing into their own home studios spending more time getting the right cable arrangements

For you on December 2, the 50 Best Albums of 2025 from Treblezine. I wrote about the futuristic R&B of Rochelle Jordan and the LA-based experimental jazz supergroup, SML. ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social @intlanthem.bsky.social ENJOY: www.treblezine.com/the-50-best-...

The 100 Best Songs of 2025 from @treblezine.bsky.social ..... I wrote about the New Zealand indie rock band The Beths' "No Joy" and the Chicago-based American post-rock band Tortoise and their song "Oganesson." @thebeths.bsky.social @intlanthem.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/the-100-best...

#pop #music #culture #repost Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, released on November 30, 1982, hit number one on the Billboard charts on February 26, 1983, and stayed there for a non-consecutive 37 weeks until April 14, 1984. ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2024/04/1984...

For The Win

Jack White is the king of “indie dudes love sports too” representation matters baby

"McCraven’s sound proposes a radical reimagining of what jazz can be in the 21st century. For McCraven, it’s a result of 'liking to shake things up and feeling like that is part of the legacy of jazz in broader terms. It’s a provocative music and music of the people.'" Makaya McCraven Interviewed:

"It’s a total gas watching vocalist Michael Bingham schelprockin’ down Clarion Alley," writes John-Paul Shiver of the buzz surrounding Spiritual Cramp's new album 'Rude' #UnderTheStars

📻 #SF/ WestCoast self-proclaimed punks, Spiritual Cramp, schelprockin’ down Clarion Alley, totin’ a boombox. De La Soul, Pharcyde, and Lush drop releases KeiyaA expresses atmospheric heft...... #UnderTheStars @beggarsgroup.bsky.social ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/11/unde...

🦃Gobble Gobble! Ho, Ho, Ho, patrons! It's gift season for the music lover, art enthusiast, or otherwise cool person in your life. So many choices: Charlie Brown vinyl, The Fillmore tees, and Old Skool Cafe eats... Hop in! ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2025/11/take...

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Manute Bol, Spud Webb, and Dominique Wilkins

YES @slumberlandrecords.com YES #Vinyl