On Acknowledge Kindness, SF indie pop oracle Glenn Donaldson, aka Reds, Pinks & Purples, continues that “enveloping ennui” or, as others have dubbed it, “SF Sadcore vibe” that spins those late '80s college rock-sounding arrangements. ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/reds-pinks-p...

Juju Rogers funk, punk, & soul on Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls. Tom Smiths' ever-morphing Otoliths from Oakland. Hackney-born singer Bel Cobain is next for Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings It's all in @48hills.bsky.social music column Under The Stars: 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

#culture The 1990's are experiencing a major cultural renaissance, driven by Gen Z & Millennial nostalgia for a pre-smartphone era. Look no further than the small streaming screen from #Hulu ✒️ for @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/four-essenti...

"All of the controversial allegations that have been attached to the Michael Jackson estate are sidestepped in this two-hour, color-by-number, highlight reel, leaving a hole of emptiness," writes @padlife.bsky.social

UTS: Music Column @48hills.bsky.social According to the IMS Business Report 2025, presented at the 2025 International Music Summit the global electronic music industry was valued at $12.9 billion. Count Om Records as a day-one contributor to that figure. 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

✏️ Under The Stars Music Column for @48hills.bsky.social Shabazz Palaces at The Chapel SF DIS at 540bar tonite Hollie Cook wows in dub, Jeff Parker( @intlanthem.bsky.social ) bounces back Altın Gün too Om Records announces 30-year Embarcadero blast 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

My dude @padlife.bsky.social wrote a killer appreciation of Chic's 'Risque', that you should definitely read. And listen to it again if you haven't in a while, and turn it up loud

#HOF Finally got to write about the almighty #CHIC for @treblezine.bsky.social Can we just take a second to drill down on the fact that Chic bestowed the seeds upon not one but two genres that have gone on to dominate 21st century music, financially-culturally? www.treblezine.com/chic-risque-...

✒️ @48hills.bsky.social Under the Stars: IRRIVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS vibrate Future Present Past. Bar Part-Time's wax. DJ Platurn gets his Amoeba bag. Ty Segall's Earth Tongue slithers Los Rakas celebrate Earth Day at the GG Bandshell Under The Stars ----- 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

sending newsletters and ducking emails

While there was a bunch of pop stars taking residence on Billboard’s charts in 2006, and several adventurous producers breaking through with novel electronic sounds, nobody on the “overground” was movin’ like Flying Lotus @padlife.bsky.social

#RSD 2026 "But when the track “1983” blew through SF, it was one of those cuts… Any DJ worth their salt not only had it, but when they rolled to the gig, they’d ask the opening DJ, “Yo, did you play that FlyLo shit yet?” ✒️ for @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2026/04/reco...

Over @48hills.bsky.social : Ulrika Spacek, Slake, Little Hill Lounge, Mortified, Vinyl Williams, Radio Sofia—so much great music 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

Over at @treblezine.bsky.social Our 100 Favorite 21st Century Hip-Hop Albums We revisit a list from a few years back, revamp it, double the size, unrank it and showcase the rap records that made our millennium www.treblezine.com/best-hip-hop...

Did all the festivals decide in a secret meeting this week to drop "embargoed" press releases in a 48 hour span? jeez.....

🚨Black Cat Jazz Supper Club hushes the "doom-loopers." For @48hills.bsky.social , I hit up the Black Cat Jazz Supper Club at 400 Eddy Street, where that space is reviving bristling live music & introducing something else that's very now. 48hills.org/2026/04/what...

The BEST Music Happenings in San Francisco and Beyond: Under the Stars from @48hills.bsky.social Now, you're informed. Womack Sisters on Daptone Rocketship at The Chapel August Lee Stevens at SF JAZZ Farewell to Bob Power, the forever hip-hop enthusiast. 48hills.org/2026/04/unde...

Somebody sounds like they know what they are talking about...

Jill Scott : To Whom This May Concern To Whom This May Concern, Scott’s first album since 2015’s Woman, she remains diamond sharp and dart proper. Spreading music and love for music’s sake. ✒️ for @treblezine.bsky.social link ---- www.treblezine.com/jill-scott-t...

Our weekly music column's vibes edition opens with GENA, who bring "an uncut, outside-the-box approach to R&B," writes @padlife.bsky.social #UnderTheStars

#chicago Common: Resurrection (1994) Wrote about it for @treblezine.bsky.social Hall of Fame #Common "And understand, these are the pre-times. Pre-J Dilla, pre-Kanye, and pre-International Anthem, for that matter, having a stranglehold on the indie jazz world." www.treblezine.com/common-resur...

SF PEEPS DIRECTIONS IN STEREO AT 540 BAR: FOOD EDITION FRI/27

Under the Stars: Vibe edition Our music column @48hills.bsky.social with the je ne sais quoi GENA, Cuzco, Mild Universe, Octo Octa, Space Ghost, #OutsideLands 48hills.org/2026/03/unde...

Balthvs: Transmutations #cumbia #dub #surfrock With equal parts Jerry Garcia guitar flow and breezy Thundercat funkbone attitude, Transmutations swirls harmonies with thick, fuzzy whammying distortion. Wrote about it for @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/balthvs-tran...

#jazz #boogie #funk @pitchfork.com featured Patrice Rushen's Straight From The Heart for their Sunday review this week. Here's Posh. A record reissued a couple of years ago that began her prolific rise..... ✒️ for @treblezine.bsky.social Enjoy ---- www.treblezine.com/patrice-rush...

👀 @48hills.bsky.social Music column Under The Stars this week Farewell Mr Willie Colon of #Fania Hello to The Kitchenettes & Maria BC album release shows at SF's 4 Star Theater Three decades in John Tejada, electronic music Don, keeps pushing an arsenal of sounds ✒️ 48hills.org/2026/03/unde...

As a drum and bass album, Goldie's 1995 album 'Timeless' overachieved—particularly for the Bay Area's drum and bass aficionados #UnderTheStars @padlife.bsky.social

Noise Pop Report from @48hills.bsky.social Illuminati Hotties wear capes, too. Orcutt Shelley Miller avant-rock buzzsaw 48hills.org/2026/03/nois...

#jazz #experimental For newcomers to the SML, Anna Butterss, Jeff Parker multiverse, I ✒️ about all three in the @treblezine.bsky.social Best Jazz Albums of 2024 list. Get familiar: www.treblezine.com/the-20-best-... @intlanthem.bsky.social

LA-based experimental jazz supergroup SML touched down at Joe Henderson Lab & performed 4 sold-out shows as part of this year's Noise Pop Music Festival in SF. The Afrobeat-Krautrock, collective did not disappoint. @intlanthem.bsky.social ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social 48hills.org/2026/03/nois...

#album #review Momoko Gill pairs a subtle emotional approach with masterful jazz musicianship on Momoko ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/momoko-gill-...

REVISIONIST BLUES Indeed............

Heavyweight! The Best Vinyl Reissues column @treblezine.bsky.social is back. The Emotions, Style Council, Crown Heights Affair, and yes.... The Power Station gets unpacked along with some other items in this session. This is Heavyweight. www.treblezine.com/6-great-viny...

Bevy of textures ✒️ Under The Stars from @48hills.bsky.social Carlos Niño & Friends DIRECTIONS IN STEREO DJ Night Punk at Mabuhay Gardens this Saturday DJ at Riptide in SF New ELECTROSOUL from DJ Harrison @stonesthrow.bsky.social 48hills.org/2026/02/unde...

Noise Pop Industries' 33rd installment of their early-year music festival kicked off last Thursday. Here is @48hills.bsky.social first report: 48hills.org/2026/02/nois...

"Why does Davis still matter? His tinkering with jazz and music at large is still influencing how we hear composition," writes @padlife.bsky.social ~ Find out where to celebrate the great's 100th birthday in this edition of #UnderTheStars

Noise Pop

#MilesDavis centennial celebrations in The Bay at SF Jazz & Presidio Theatre Drum & Bass don Calibre never disappoints LA's DJ Harrison new release on @stonesthrow.bsky.social Arthur Russell's alt-rock band The Necessaries Gets an expansive reissue UnderTheStars💫 ✒️ 48hills.org/2026/02/unde...

Ring the alarm! Noise Pop — San Francisco’s vanguard celebration of independent music and art festival, one of America’s oldest in operation — is returning for its 33rd year. Here's your guide, by @padlife.bsky.social

Have a great Monday

Here's @48hills.bsky.social Essential Guide to Noise Pop 2026 "This year, festival organizers have stressed that half of the 150-plus acts performing at 20 venues throughout San Francisco and the East Bay are local" 48hills.org/2026/02/happ...

Under The Stars ✒️ @48hills.bsky.social For Valentine's In #SF We bring the beats Disco, Jungle, UK Garage, Hip-Hop by way of Trumpet, Bass-music..... plus Dinner Date at 4 Star Theater with Mae Powell 48hills.org/2026/02/unde...

All Day, Son. All Day......👇

#BOTD #repost Flack possessed elegance and finesse in the delivery of her story-songs. From Les McCann to Donny Hathaway, Luther Vandross, and through to MF DOOM......Her influence remains evergreen. ✒️ @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/four-ways-ro...

It's difficult to reclaim 'Under the Cherry Moon' as cinema in its entirety. But the soundtrack album? Another reinvention. Read our Hall of Fame on Prince's 'Parade' www.treblezine.com/prince-parad...

#HOF 💜 ♊ 🥁"Parade" turns 40 in March and is #PRINCE at his most 80's pop star zenith. Plus, it's the last hurrah for The Revolution. It represents, yet another 🎼 reinvention. Join us as we deep dive @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/prince-parad...

'Naive Melodies' is a tribute and a surreal, wild trip through the Talking Heads discography read through the lens of Black experimentalism. #BBERecords ✒️ for @treblezine.bsky.social www.treblezine.com/various-arti...

> the dreamer < marc mac #4hero #bossa #soulsky youtube.com/watch?v=JPgf...