New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland How The West Was Wrung Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed Robin Lapid 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Minneapolis Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex Drone Not Drones Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis 1/26 – 1/27, 2024 By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going Alexis Zanghi 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Heaven Can’t Wait, For Luke Herbermann Luke Herbermann Heaven Can Wait East Village, NYC 1/26/24 Just kitty-corner to Tompkins Square Park is a music venue that never once in my four, five, six, or K Hank Jost 29 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking Brian Slattery 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization Ziona Riley, Neil O’Neil, Dylan Whitlow Brown’s Diner Nashville 1/25/24 With a strip of computer paper taped on the shelves behind the bar that reads “booking Libby Weitnauer 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio Cardi Spelling Bee Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 After all these years, I still recall it like it was yesterday: Dan Mini Elementary School. Fourth grade. I’m Robin Lapid 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Drum + Drum + 6 = 1 Jake Richter’s Double Drum Octet Barbès Brooklyn 1/25/24 What would possess a drummer so lighting-limbed as Jake Richter to enlist the aid of second percussionist? I wondered K Hank Jost 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Opening Act Steals The Show Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault, Z.B. Reeves 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA Grandmas Gone Wild YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures Rebecca Giordano 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini The Flying Monkey Newington, Conn. January 24, 2024 Welcome back to my search for the perfect Happy Hour in the Greater Hartford area! This time I found myself on the Jamil Ragland 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome Jazman’s zine sale Pigment Art Supply 304 15th St. Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 I wasn’t aware of how big the graffiti scene is in the Bay Area until Robin Lapid 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
LA Rosemary Mayer, Reconsidered Rosemary Mayer (1943 – 2014) was a New York artist well known in the 1970s for her drawings, large-scale fabric sculptures, and site-specific installations. By the end of her life, her Gillian Sneed 26 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Dark (And Long) Was The Night “They Made Me A Fugitive” and “Aimless Bullet” Noir City 21 Grand Lake Theater Oakland Jan. 23, 2024 Who knew watching films was exhausting? If you’ve ever been to Sarah Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Grab A Kazoo On Your Way Into Knipple’s Moody Barnyard Knipple’s Variety of Games Show Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 16, 2024 Your next free Tuesday night begs to be taken up by the Knipple residency at Thelma’s Z.B. Reeves 25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb The Science Behind Science Fiction with the Gibbs Sisters Chapter 510 Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and Shawnee Gibbs is telling me a real-life ghost Robin Lapid 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Fire Master Quest for Fire Woodbine Queens, N.Y. Jan. 24, 2024 The other night I was arguing with a clown. We’d gotten into the heated weeds on a subject neither K Hank Jost 25 Jan 2024 · 4 min read