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Under the Stars: Thank you and goodbye, Sr. Willie Colón - 48 hills Plus: March gigs from The Kitchenettes and Maria BC, Satya bids adieu, John Tejada's latest interlocking rhythms.

👀 @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

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Under the Stars: Goldie's 'Timeless'—and what it meant for 1990s Bay Area drum and bass - 48 hills Plus: The time has come for local vibe merchants 37 Houses, Lolo Zouaï's Sunset sensibilities, more.

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 Diary: Illuminati Hotties caped for BOTH, Orcutt Shelley Miller thrilled the dudes - 48 hills Free show from tenderpunk faves erased the condos closing in; avant-rock trio took the beards on wild rides at GAMH.

Noise Pop Report from @48hills.bsky.social
Illuminati Hotties wear capes, too.

Orcutt Shelley Miller avant-rock buzzsaw

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The Best Jazz Albums of 2024 | Treble Our year-end coverage dives into the work of veteran players and young lions alike in our list of the best jazz albums of 2024

#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

Noise Pop Diary: SML cooked at SFJAZZ—all sauce, no Butterss - 48 hills One key player was missing, but the LA-based future jazz outfit heated up Joe Henderson Lab just fine.

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

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Momoko Gill : Momoko | Album review | Treble Following up an excellent collaboration with Matthew Herbert on 'Momoko', Momoko Gill delivers a stellar and eclectic debut

#album #review

Momoko Gill pairs a subtle emotional approach with masterful jazz musicianship on Momoko

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

6 Great Vinyl Reissues from Winter 2026 - Treble Heavily sampled grooves, new wave obscurities, and more

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.

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Under the Stars: Carlos Niño & Friends deliver a glad-to-be-alive moment - 48 hills Plus: Celebrate 50 years of San Francisco punk at Mabuhay Gardens, DJ Sep hits The Riptide, more.

Bevy of textures
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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

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Noise Pop Diary: Cindy scored the reconnections, New Jazz Underground went for gold - 48 hills 33rd indie music fest kicked off on a Bay Area high note, with friendly vibes and winning sounds.

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

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Under the Stars: Miles Davis centennial celebrations blow into the Bay - 48 hills Plus: Drum and bass contemporaries can't catch Calibre, The Necessaries anthology pays homage to prescient indie rock, more.

"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

Under the Stars: Miles Davis centennial celebrations blow into the Bay - 48 hills Plus: Drum and bass contemporaries can't catch Calibre, The Necessaries anthology pays homage to prescient indie rock, more.

#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💫
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Happy hours, hometown heroes: Our essential guide to the 33rd annual Noise Pop - 48 hills An especially tender year, with adieus to iconic venues, avant-rock supergroups, and after-hours local legends.

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

Happy hours, hometown heroes: Our essential guide to the 33rd annual Noise Pop - 48 hills An especially tender year, with adieus to iconic venues, avant-rock supergroups, and after-hours local legends.

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"

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Under the Stars: lovetempo's debut makes our disco heart beat faster - 48 hills Plus: Valentine's Day won't suck with Mae Powell and Dinner Date, and a crispy Takuya Kuroda repress.

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

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All Day, Son.
All Day......👇

Four ways Roberta Flack expressed her creative versatility - Treble A tribute to the late singer/songwriter and R&B legend

#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

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Indeed✅

Prince : Parade | The end of the Revolution trilogy | Treble Closing out his trilogy of albums with The Revolution on 'Parade,' Prince backed an indulgent film project with a killer soundtrack

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'

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Prince : Parade | The end of the Revolution trilogy | Treble Closing out his trilogy of albums with The Revolution on 'Parade,' Prince backed an indulgent film project with a killer soundtrack

#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

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Various Artists : Naive Melodies - Treble A tribute to the Talking Heads that showcases the post-punk legends' influence on Black music

'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

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The Dreamer YouTube video by Marc Mac - Topic

> the dreamer <

marc mac

#4hero
#bossa
#soulsky

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East bay, we've got a super fun show happening at the Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito on Saturday night. Oakland Weekender presenting Tony Jay (sick solo set) and the mysterious Peppercorns, featuring what we think you'll find to be some familiar faces. KALX's Poindexter on the decks. 8pm, and FREE

Salute!💫

Under the Stars: Pardon us while we gush over R.E. Seraphin's baroque pop cool - 48 hills Plus: 'Pretty in Pink' makes a great V-Day soundtrack and SF Bay Popfest is determined to rock, even as local venues bid adieu.

Thee Parkside is gone end of the year.....
Pretty in Pink for Valentine's
SF Bay Popfest at Bottom of The Hill in August
Xiu Xiu is a Psycho Killer
And R.E. Seraphin's double reissue feels like a mystery going backward
It's Under The Stars....

✒️ @48hills.bsky.social

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A promotional event flyer for "Felt Frequencies," a record and tape fair happening on Saturday, January 31, from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM at El Rio, located at 3158 Mission Street.

Unfortunately I have some unexpected, last-minute travel plans and I can’t set-up at the Felt Frequencies record fair at El Rio inn SF on Saturday, but Contact will have some SLR stuff for you, and you know there’ll be a ton of great records *everywhere*!

Don't fear the Zappa: Richmond fusion quartet Pateka swings wild and hit - 48 hills Singer Eli Knowles talks Mingus and art-rock influences, deep Bay connections, debut LP before Bottom of the Hill gig.

#repost
Tonite at Bottom of the Hill SF Peeps.....

Pateka, Richmond, Ca based art-rock, jazz fusion quartet
plays tonite with clever architecture and witty visuals....

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