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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 21d

🚨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

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 1d

Dancefloors rejoice — Melbourne’s Harvey Sutherland shares his TOP FIVE HOUSE RECORDS with @48hills.bsky.social alongside the release of Debt.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 4d

#rewind #repost

Who Knows,” a mega jam with accelerating swing, call and response between Jimi and Buddy, and then #Hendrix playing all types of loose, slipsliding virtuosic guitar licks.
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50 years of Jimi Hendrix's radical, redefining 'Band of Gypsys' - 48 hills

Revisiting a classic album that proved to be a turning point in rock's political expressionism.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 4d

Best team.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 4d

Crying screaming throwing up

Normal feelings as a Mariners fan

Raine Danielle @rainedanielle.substack.com · 4d

Mina, how we feeling?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

Apple juice should be a controlled substance

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 6d

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the classic (and ever relevant) film: "All the President's Men" (1976) - Dir. Alan J. Pakula

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All The President's Men (1976) Official Trailer - Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Thriller HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 6d

Under The Stars ✨💫
Music & Culture @48hills.bsky.social

CAHL SEL “all hardware recordings” on #SF imprint started by Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum
Akiko Yano reissue on WEWANTSOUNDS
Crushed on @ghostlyint.bsky.social
Harvey Sutherland's top 5 house records

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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.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 6d

#JAZZ #21Century

We put together 20 Essential Artists from the 21st Century Jazz Renaissance over @treblezine.bsky.social

Keep in mind that this list isn’t all seeing, but it serves as a great introduction to what’s happening in jazz right now.

Enjoy
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Jeff @1000timesjeff.bsky.social · 7d

Big shout out to @padlife.bsky.social for this list on 20 of the most significant names in 21st century jazz

(I did write one blurb tho!)

Treble @treblezine.bsky.social · 7d

20 Essential Artists from the 21st Century Jazz Renaissance

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 7d

🤞 Indeed!

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 7d

#rewind #repost

Talking Heads Remain in Light turns 45 today. Its influence, that residue is evergreen.

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Big suit antics aside, it's Talking Heads that shine in 'Stop Making Sense' - 48 hills

40th anniversary re-release of Jonathan Demme's concert film reminds that the band never got a proper farewell.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 8d

🎹 🥁Rhythm-obsessed purveyors of deviant-pop, Automatic — the three-woman band from #LA who's never afraid of a groove — push post-punk into the coldwave realm with their best yet,
Is It Now?
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Automatic : Is It Now? | Album review | Treble

Daring to dance during an apocalypse on 'Is It Now?', Automatic shrug off the bad vibes in favor of deep grooves

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 9d

Tha homies...

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 9d

DUVALLLLLLL

NFL live at 3 pm ET

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 9d

YES! YES! YES!

The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 9d

“Stevie came in and we showed him the instrument [TONTO] and he put his hands all over it. And then he started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’”

The first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth:

“He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’”: Robert Margouleff on the first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth

Margouleff also says that he had to talk Wonder out of giving Superstition to Jeff Beck

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 10d

Mk.gee make his ACL Fest debut tonight ⭐️⭐️

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 10d

#sunday #rewind #Detroit
"Prog rock, disco, house, techno—all parts of his record collection—made it into his tracks.

Being from Detroit he might have looped up some Anita Baker too, "

We revisit
J Dilla, Welcome 2 Detroit!
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Everything played: Cue the 20th anniversary re-release of J Dilla's 'Welcome 2 Detroit' - 48 hills

The wizard producer changed hip-hop several times over before his early death, and we're all still catching up.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11d

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 12d

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ held a weeklong residency in Brooklyn — and became an unlikely free-speech rally, writes Rebecca Alter.

The Kimmel Resistance Comes to Fort Greene

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ held a weeklong residency in Brooklyn — and became an unlikely free-speech rally, writes Rebecca Alter.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 12d

HEY! ✅ @48hills.bsky.social SF Arts & Culture-Music Column
Under The Stars!
Amelia Ray-All Day
#SML returns to #SFJAZZ + New album
Nightmares on Wax + Yasiin Bey
#K7Records / #DJKICKS join the Eris Drew Motherbeat
+ more

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Under the Stars: Amelia Ray puts us under the right 'Soulveillance' - 48 hills

Plus: Eris Drew 'Kicks' ass, Mal Waldron calls in from 1975, Peki Momés' Anatolian rare groove vibes, more great music.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 13d

friendly reminders help....everybody

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 13d

#rewind 💽
Music venues in SF/Bay Area are always evolving
But you can always count on @slumberlandrecords.com
to stay current with the regions indie music scene.
Here are 13 standout records from that imprint we outlined in 2024 for @treblezine.bsky.social

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13 of the Best Slumberland Records Albums - Treble

A look back at more than three decades of jangle, fuzz and hooks.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 15d

Kassa Overall’s Cream project goes light-years past traditional remaking hip-hop into jazz tropes; he’s inserted the notion both must be in conversation with one another to march into the future collectively.
@warprecords.bsky.social

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Kassa Overall : Cream - Treble

Thirty six minutes of jazz in conversation with hip-hop

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 15d

oof

Jeff @1000timesjeff.bsky.social · 16d

lol at the seller who has the Castle Rat album priced at $2,000 on Discogs when you can buy a copy directly from the band/label for $25 on Bandcamp

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 17d

#rewind
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“Oh Say Can You See”: It’s probably the unsexiest song on the planet, but not in Marvin’s hands.

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That one time Marvin Gaye sexed up the national anthem - 48 hills

As a 50th anniversary Deluxe Edition of the great soul artist's 'Let's Get It On' is released, we recall another hot moment

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 18d

LCD Soundsystem and Pulp covered Heaven 17’s “(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” together at the Hollywood Bowl

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