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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 14d

🚨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 · 4h

🤞 Indeed!

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 5h

#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 · 1d

🎹 🥁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 · 1d

Tha homies...

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

DUVALLLLLLL

NFL live at 3 pm ET

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 2d

YES! YES! YES!

The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 2d

“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 · 2d

Mk.gee make his ACL Fest debut tonight ⭐️⭐️

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 3d

#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 · 4d

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 · 4d

‘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 · 5d

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

48hills.org/2025/10/unde...

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 · 6d

friendly reminders help....everybody

sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 6d

#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 · 8d

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 · 8d

oof

Jeff @1000timesjeff.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

#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 · 11d

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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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 12d

Kermit feels it
Is it a sound....or more like “Khruangbin vibes”?
A genre started by the tiny band with a big name everybody can’t pronounce. Here are four bands that push this “psychedelic mood music” (or whatever…).
Yeah, it’s a thing.........

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kermit the frog is dancing in a room with a box video downloader in the corner

ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in a room with a box video downloader in the corner

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 12d

Let’s check out this “psychedelic mood music” (or whatever…)
4 bands high on that Khruangbin "vibe"

BALTHVS
Yuuf
Glass Beams
Los Bitchos

Ooooh.....It's a thing

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Four bands that capture psychedelic mood music - Treble

(or whatever...)

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13d

Black women’s contributions to human’s rights history are too often overlooked in our nation’s history books. Yet these women played a vital role in the fight to secure rights and protections for all people—regardless of race, gender, class, and nationality.

The Black Women Who Knew That Civil Rights Were Human Rights

Black women's work linking U.S. and international rights is often overlooked.

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48 Hills @48hills.bsky.social · 13d

"@saulwilliams.bsky.social is tapping back into the oral tradition here—talking, preaching, discussing, trying to make sense of the insane, delivering brain food to a fast-food society that’s lost its way" #UnderTheStars with the new releases and upcoming local gigs @padlife.bsky.social

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

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 14d

“Funaná is believed to have taken root in Santiago’s mountainous interior, a remote rural area mostly isolated from colonial control and home to the Badius...[who] remained strongly connected to their West African heritage…” 🇨🇻

The Radical Rhythms of Funaná

Once banned by colonizers, its rhythms now drive dance floors around the world.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 16d

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

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Liisa Lee @liisalee.bsky.social · 16d

To: Lorne Michaels
Re: #SNL Host
Please have Jimmy Kimmel host the first episode of the 51st season.

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sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social · 17d

🚨Hey there! @48hills.bsky.social
SF's Arts + Music Column: Under the Stars!
Richmond's cool experimental quartet, Pateka.
The Fillmore's local art
BASTIENGOAT's electronic SAFE.
DIS at 540 Bar 9/26!
Kenny Dope covers "Born Under Punches" for BBE Records
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Under the Stars: Debut from Richmond's Pateka calls on Bay Area experimental legacy - 48 hills

Plus: The Fillmore sticks it to a storied history, bastiengoat's prime genre-shifting, and an ode to 'Alien: Earth.'

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