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Steering Clear of Bad Sound... Philadelphia

Steering Clear of Bad Sound...

Three bands brought shades of Sheryl Crowe, Paul Simon and Richard Thompson to Nikki Lopez last week — and got the crowd dancing despite chronic sound problems at the venue.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
19 Nov 2025 · 1 min read
A “Midnight Visitor” Haunts Public-Access TV New Haven

A “Midnight Visitor” Haunts Public-Access TV

A new local hit brings spooky stories to life.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
19 Nov 2025 · 6 min read
Are You A Bop Or A Swap? Detroit

Are You A Bop Or A Swap?

The Last Chance Saloon becomes a Thursday night digital democracy.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
18 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
Mike Flanagan on the Humanity in Horror at Motor City Comic Con Detroit

Mike Flanagan on the Humanity in Horror at Motor City Comic Con

As broken down by Mike Flanagan, at Motor City Comic Con

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
18 Nov 2025 · 3 min read
Rolling Into The Fall Philadelphia

Rolling Into The Fall

The Chad Taylor Quintet teaches a live audience what real jazz improvisation is all about.

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
18 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
Car Seat Headrest Brings  Anthemic Indie Rock to Oakland’s Fox Theater Oakland

Car Seat Headrest Brings Anthemic Indie Rock to Oakland’s Fox Theater

Car Seat Headrest’s brand of self-aware, anthemic indie rock has cross-cultural appeal

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
18 Nov 2025 · 4 min read
A Bloodbath With A Message All Over

A Bloodbath With A Message

Despite a hypocritical product placement, "The Running Man" tackles corporate control over our lives.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
18 Nov 2025 · 4 min read
Please Touch Baton Rouge

Please Touch

At Glassell Gallery, an intimate opportunity to experience wheel throwing.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
17 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
Burlesque Goes All Out New Haven

Burlesque Goes All Out

At first installment of “Out at the Nine,” at Cafe Nine.

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
17 Nov 2025 · 4 min read
Light Takes Shape Hartford

Light Takes Shape

And explodes with color in "Luminous" Windsor Art Center show.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
17 Nov 2025 · 3 min read
Interplanetary Sisterhood Saves The Play Philadelphia

Interplanetary Sisterhood Saves The Play

A show about space travel uses family to confront the question of what constitutes home.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
16 Nov 2025 · 4 min read
DJ Ryan's New Release of the Week: Celeste, "Woman of Faces" Detroit

DJ Ryan's New Release of the Week: Celeste, "Woman of Faces"

I hear the warm grooves of analog records coming back.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
16 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
Why I Would Brave The Wait Time At Bin77 Again

Why I Would Brave The Wait Time At Bin77 Again

Don and Jenna's covers sent me back to middle-school dance classes and screaming into a hairbrush microphone.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
16 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
Partnership Over Domination

Partnership Over Domination

At the end of a celebrated career, author and futurist Riane Eisler sees a way out of systems of violence

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
14 Nov 2025 · 3 min read
Hew Locke Travels Between Worlds New Haven

Hew Locke Travels Between Worlds

3 ships found gliding through the Yale British art museum.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
13 Nov 2025 · 5 min read
Psych Rock In The Possum House Tulsa

Psych Rock In The Possum House

Japanese legends Acid Mothers Temple took an interplanetary trip at Mercury Lounge

  • Go to the profile of  Mitch Gilliam
Mitch Gilliam
13 Nov 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Pool Culture Detroit

Detroit Pool Culture

Gets the spotlight Donald Frith's book "Rack & Ruin."

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
12 Nov 2025 · 2 min read
The Hawk Has Landed Philadelphia

The Hawk Has Landed

Mallory Hawk keeps Ortlieb's bar hoppers guessing while bobbing and weaving from barre-chord rock through sludgey-slow grunge.

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
12 Nov 2025 · 4 min read
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