New Haven The Fiddler Was Playing — & Praying Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia. Trouble Paul Bass 20 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Mednick’s Not Going Back Steve Mednick played a song from a new album as well as from his next album — while waiting to see how both the track, and country’s political future, play Paul Bass 13 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Mystery (Train) Revisited A subdued Mystery Train took off Tuesday from WNHH FM’s studio. Veteran blues performer Brandt Taylor offered that quiet, howling-at-the-moon, lament-evoking acoustic version of Paul Butterfield’s hard-driving electric Paul Bass 11 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Sound Waves The History of Sound: Stories By Ben Shattuck Viking July 9, 2024 306 pages It’s ae long story. And 12 short stories. Ben Shattuck tells those dozen stories in Paul Bass 28 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Valauskas Experience Gets Ardent The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums. Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured Paul Bass 4 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Ful Story Omar Rajeh had the slow-cooked fava beans ready to go. A little mashing, pinches of seasoning, a drizzle or two, and a signature dish was ready to go. Paul Bass 26 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Why Angels Cover Their Eyes Seraphim By Joshua Perry Melville House Publishing 262 pages Ben is not Joshua. Ben grew up in a college town in Massachusetts. Joshua grew up in a college town in Paul Bass 25 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Decades Later, Brian Ember Finishes The Song Brian Ember started singing a verse he wrote 22 years ago, to a song he’s just now figuring out how to complete. The song is called “No Radio Inside. Paul Bass 12 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
All Over Brill Battles Bots To Rescue Truth The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Paul Bass 20 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three’s Harmony “Everything’s meant to be broken / Everything’s meant to pass …” Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact Paul Bass 7 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Russian Munsters Swarm Downtown Bar Spooky sounds emanated from Cafe Nine Saturday night. Instead of sending shivers up spines, it kept a crowd smiling and shuffling from side to side for a nonstop hour. The Paul Bass 3 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Piaget Crashes Tha Cataclysm Armando Acevedo clicked on a file from his phone. He unrolled a taped-together 10-page scroll. He started rapping the printed lyrics, summoning the insights of a noted 20th century Swiss Paul Bass 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ceschi Keeps Hope Alive Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. Nor had Paul Bass 28 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Sam Carlson Plays Right On“Tine” Despite broken string, at the tiniest of tiny desks. Paul Bass 19 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Charlie Widmer Finds A Need For“Love” Charlie Widmer didn’t expect people to want to hear “What Do I Need With Love?” Now it’s the first of his songs some people will ever hear. Paul Bass 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Cellist Doesn’t Miss A Beat Johnathan Moore was ready to add a layer of sound. He reached for the Boss RC 600 loop station pedal and … nothing. Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He Paul Bass 5 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven MJ Bones Lives, Unplugged “If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.” Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on Paul Bass 29 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 … Hi Pi Day! To celebrate, you’re invited on a journey in search of patterns in the randomness of the putatively infinitely-expressed ratio of a circle’s circumference to its Paul Bass 14 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
