New Haven Always Morning Brings The Heat At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a Dereen Shirnekhi 21 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “I Won’t Miss My Human Form” Dying in hospice. Shedding the uniform known as your body. Name-checking Milford. All these topics and more flew through bar after bar of hip hop, as six acts from near Brian Slattery 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA “I Don’t Want To Live Like This, But I Don’t Want To Die” VAMPIRE WEEKEND, ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US TOUR Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles June 11, 2024 When I was 15 years old, I ran away from my hometown of Sonoma, California. Madeline Connors 18 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia As The World Burns, Kim Gordon Thrashes Anew Kim Gordon Union Transfer 1026 Spring Garden St June 14, 2024 “I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man,” 71-year-old Kim Gordon swore on repeat in Nora Grace-Flood 17 Jun 2024 · 7 min read
Hartford Symphony Can Touch “This” Symphony in the Park Bushnell Park Hartford June 15, 2024 I love orchestral music, and I love being outside. Seeing the Hartford Symphony perform Symphony in the Park at Bushnell Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Ebony Hillbillies Hit The Green A pairing of two bands steeped in traditional music — Cécilia and the Ebony Hillbillies — showed the ways in which having deep roots in a particular musical style can lead to Brian Slattery 17 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Night Chappell Roan Came To Town Chappell Roan: Midwest Princess Tour Cain’s Ballroom June 5, 2024 Watch Chappell Roan’s recent videos on social media and you’ll see crowds ballooning: huge and storied attendances Z.B. Reeves 14 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
LA Blorp! Kraft-werks Disney’s Concert Hall KRAFTWERK Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles May 28, 2024 When the Disney Hall usher scanned my e‑ticket, it emitted a cute, space-age tone: “Blorp!” Ah, another way Kraftwerk Jack Skelley 14 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Unsingular Sound: 7th St. Sidewalk Sessions Sidewalk Sessions 7th West 1255 7th St. Oakland May 31, 2024 Small sunglasses, a neon yellow beanie, eye-shocking magenta sporty shorts, pale yellow socks, and black dress shoes: thusly clad, Sarah Bass 13 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Porchfest Pill Provokes Sweats, Shakes And Salsa West Philly Porchfest June 9, 2024 Philadelphia I woke up at noon on Saturday, startled and drenched in sweat, to the sounds of whining guitar riffs escalating into manic chaos: Nora Grace-Flood 10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Summer Starts With An Indie Pop Oakland Weekender Thee Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave. Oakland June 7, 2024 Summer in June is lovely in theory, but every true Bay Area local knows that our mercurial microclimates Robin Lapid 10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl Milling around the floor-level seating area at the Westville Music Bowl on Friday night, I had no particular idea what I was in for. I had come to review a Mark Oppenheimer 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Bus Stop Jam Sesh Jazzes Up Dollar Strollers Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll June 6, 2024 Philadelphia The Dollar Stroll returned to West Philly last week, with businesses along Baltimore Avenue selling goods to the tune of between $1 Lindo Yes 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Screen Savors Dream House: Inside Music + Video Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 3, 2024 At the exhibit Dream House: Inside Music + Video, I found myself surrounded by a Nora Grace-Flood 9 Jun 2024 · 4 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
LA Syd Barrett Roosts In Robyn Hitchock’s Head ROBYN HITCHCOCK Zebulon Los Angeles May 21, 2024 In the end, Pink Floyd was a gigantic rock band. But before that, under founder Syd Barrett, it was a deep and Jack Skelley 7 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Musicians Lend A Hand Chloe, of the Hartford-based band Cvmrats, told stories about deceased friends and the difficulties of being mistaken for a train hopper, but everyone at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night knew Brian Slattery 5 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Open Mic Pigs Out On Talent Surplus Open Mic Ortlieb’s 847 N 3rd St. Philadelphia May 29, 2024 There I was, pigging out on hot dogs, listening to the Viagra Boys, and watching the Phillies move Nora Grace-Flood 4 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
