Hartford Travelers Come Out At Night — & Hit the Right Note Over The Rainbow: A Free Concert Presented by the Travelers Chorale Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford May 16, 2024 Life is full of surprises, and I experienced an excellent Jamil Ragland 17 May 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Groundwaves: Underground Music’s Solution To Artist Development Groundwaves Skyline Mansion Tulsa May 9, 2024 The music industry is in shambles. Music labels across the nation are either closing up shop or consolidating departments in an effort to Ryan Anderson 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Love n’Co Brings The Love In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands Dereen Shirnekhi 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “What, You Don’t Like Keyboards?” Fantastic Negrito & Friends Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland May 10, 2024 Seeing Fantastic Negrito & Friends at the latest Friday night event at Oakland Museum of Breezy Bratton 15 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Dave Cope Crafts A “Hidden World” Dave Cope and the Sass Dawson St. Pub 100 Dawson St. Philadelphia May 10, 2024 Shadows of cigarette smoke cha-cha’d alongside smooth-moving middle-agers on the makeshift dance floor of Nora Grace-Flood 14 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford “The Hartford Sound” Is A Real Thing Jazz 201: Unsung Legends and the Hartford Jazz Scene Hartford Public Library Hartford May 13, 2024 There’s a special sound that only jazz musicians trained in Hartford can perform. Jamil Ragland 14 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Punk’s Promise PUNKCON 3 California State University Fullerton, Cal. May 4, 2024 It’s been a landmark week for US universities dusting off their suppression manuals and calling for armed backup to A.J. Urquidi 12 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Moms In Bands, Outnumbered By Dads In Bands, Chase Rockstar Dreams Grace Yukich picked up her first acoustic guitar in high school, in Opelika, Alabama, in the mid 1990s. Women like Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love ruled the burgeoning alt-rock music Marisa Torrieri Bloom 10 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Talking To God In A Tulsa Jazz Club The John Hanrahan Quartet Performs “A Love Supreme” LowDown May 4, 2024 The liner notes to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme are sublime. Coltrane describes his album as a Z.B. Reeves 10 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia “Attack Dog” Delivers Puppy Love Attack Dog PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia May 2, 2024 Attack Dog ambushed an avant-garde audience inside PhilaMOCA — not with snarling words or slobbery chops, but with catchy riffs Nora Grace-Flood 7 May 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia Live Band Ups The Karaoke Game Live Band Karaoke Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia May 4, 2024 Backed by a guitarist, bassist, drummer and a harmonizing hostess, the pony-tailed sequined woman who had introduced Nora Grace-Flood 6 May 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven The Decemberists Make it Better The Decemberists brought May to a magnificent start on Saturday night when they returned to College Street Music Hall for the fourth show of their 2024 A Peaceable Kingdom North Karen Ponzio 6 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Her Tea: The R&B Open Mic Night Brewing In Tulsa Mi Tea + R&B Mi Tea Lounge April 24, 2024 Hip-hop’s dominance on Tulsa’s airwaves and stages has inadvertently created a void for R&B lovers. Ryan Anderson 5 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Melody From Noise HELMET: LOOK LEFT TOUR with CRO-MAGS Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles April 28, 2024 On Sunday in Central Los Angeles, I parked on one of Westlake’s copious skid rows, crunching A.J. Urquidi 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Humble Hip Hop Trumpeter Packs Out The New Parish Takuya Kuroda w/ Isaiah Mostafa & DJ Wonway Posibul The New Parish 1743 San Pablo Ave. Oakland April 25, 2024 Hip hop heads will grant Takuya Kuroda street cred from Breezy Bratton 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Metal Goes Mental For Meditation Savage Sisters Metal Meditation with Monks Pond PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia April 28, 2024 *Extra credit: Test your focus (or flexibility) by reading this review while listening to Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Mannequin Pussy Embraces Anger MANNEQUIN PUSSY: I GOT HEAVEN TOUR with SOUL GLO The Fonda Theater Los Angeles April 26, 2024 My millennial algorithm keeps pushing TikToks about the power of listening to nostalgic Emily VanKoughnett 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
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