Hartford Sympathy For The Diavlo Carmine’s Bar, Grill and Stage East Hartford Jan. 17, 2024 I knew Carmine’s Bar, Grill and Stage had good music on that stage. But what about that bar Jamil Ragland 18 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany E‑Block Jams In The Lobby The E‑Block The Palace Theater Albany, N.Y. Jan. 13, 2024 A dense crowd huddled in the lobby of Albany’s Palace Theater Saturday to see local R& RS Benedict 17 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Allen Lowe Hits High Note With New Music, Documentary Allen Lowe, a man of multiple talents — musician, songwriter, author, historian — likes to argue. Luckily for jazz fans, those arguments fuel his creative output. His life is being captured in Karen Ponzio 17 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Ben Garnett Offers Close-Up Preview Of Sophomore Album Ben Garnett Random Sample Nashville, TN Jan. 12, 2024 If my videos and photos make it look like I’m sitting on the floor behind, underneath, or inside a camera Libby Weitnauer 16 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven A New “Star” Rises Guitar strings plucked with grace and care, voices keening in the air, and one of the most attentive audiences seen anywhere in months made for an intense and intimate evening Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville At Dee’s, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes Kicks Off The Off-Season Brownwyn Keith-Hynes Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Nashville, TN Jan. 8, 2024 As I walked in the door, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes was stepping off the mic after taking a solo and Libby Weitnauer 10 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville Bossa Nova Brightens A Blue Room Josh Halper’s Bossa Nova Band The Blue Room Nashville Jan. 4, 2024 I had a headache and noticed a smell of burnt rubber. I discovered I had been driving Libby Weitnauer 7 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Jazz Feels Real At A Fiction Bar Skylar Floe Quartet Fiction Bar Williamsburg, NYC Jan. 6, 2024 Dim lights and original, vintage trim along the walls. The warmth of wood. Mirrors to make it all seem big. K Hank Jost 7 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Kevin Saint James Smokes The Owl Shop It was 9:30 on Wednesday evening at the Owl Shop on College Street and already the Kevin Saint James Band had relaxed into an easy swing. Plumes of smoke Brian Slattery 4 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Vinyl Breathes Anew, With A Whiskey Chaser Bar Shiru Selector Series 1611 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Dec. 20th, 2023 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s poet laureate, closed out season seven of Bar Shiru’s Selector Series by selecting Lisa Gray 3 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Nashville Music City Bar and Grill Makes Another World On Old Ground Nathan Belt Music City Bar and Grill Nashville Dec. 30, 2023 “It’s music from outer space,” my show-going companion Will Johnson said to me. It’s difficult to convey Libby Weitnauer 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
NYC A True Fabel: East Village Turns Out For A Hip-Hop Legend In Hour Of Need Fundraiser Party for Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabone Big Bar East Village, Manhattan Dec. 20, 2023 Lower Manhattan’s Big Bar is a place well known for the being a center K Hank Jost 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Musicians Pay Tribute To Shane MacGowan Gary Mezzi, a.k.a. Buzz Gordo (pictured above), beamed from behind a 12-string guitar on the stage of Cafe Nine Tuesday night. “This is a song about the demise Brian Slattery 21 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Graf Closes Curtain On 20-Year “Cinemagrind” Hardcore Career GRAF ORLOCK with SUPERVOID CHORALE ENSEMBLE, DANGERS, and THOU Echoplex Los Angeles Dec. 15, 202, and Chain Reaction Anaheim Dec. 16, 2023 In 2008, I met Jason Schmidt in an David Diaz 20 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC A Group Effort Toward A Less Lonely World Suicide: An Anthology Release Reading The Red Room East Village, NYC Dec. 17, 2023 (Note: If you or a loved one are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call 988 K Hank Jost 19 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Candy Cain’s: An Evening Of Sheer Joy With JD McPherson JD McPherson’s “Socks: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tour” Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa OK Dec. 9, 2023 “Presents are coming,” JD McPherson said with uncharacteristic austerity, flanked by strings Becky Carman 19 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Chicago Honky Tonk Fills The Empty Bottle Hard Country Honky Tonk The Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave. Chicago Dec. 15, 2023 “And I’ve got swinging doors, a jukebox and a bar stool / And my new Daniel Shoemaker & Allison Hadley 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Nico Hedley Rocks The Pool Nico Hedley Union Pool Brooklyn, N.Y. Dec. 14, 2023 It takes a whole helluva lot to get me to go Williamsburg’s Union Pool, a bar that’s never K Hank Jost 18 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
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