LA 40 Years Later, Violent Femmes Lean Into The Experimental VIOLENT FEMMES The Novo Los Angeles Nov. 16, 2023 This wasn’t just any old Violent Femmes show. It was the 40th anniversary celebration of their self-titled first album — the Brittany Menjivar 27 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford Music Smothers A Musical Moulin Rouge: The Musical Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford Nov. 25, 2023 Beautiful people parading around half-dressed. A score of certified hits. Eye-popping sets and world class performers. What Jamil Ragland 27 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven FiFac’s House Makes A Home On the day after Thanksgiving, many scattered through stores to find the best prices on holiday presents. Others settled into couches to catch college football. A select few found themselves Karen Ponzio 27 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Kicking Off Tour, 6lack Connects With Crowd 6lack, QUIN, Jordan Ward “Since I Have A Lover” World Tour The Ritz Raleigh, N.C. Nov. 18, 2023 The beat dropped, the live band began to play, and the Synclaire Cruel 21 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford A Blues Gale Wind Blows Through Infinity Music Hall Eric Gales Infinity Music Hall Hartford Nov. 19th, 2023 I’ve been surprised by the lack of pandemic-inspired media over the last couple of years. I expected several television shows, Jamil Ragland 20 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven 4 Bands Converge On 9 Brooklyn’s Silver Liz and Connecticut’s Private Liz, Audio Jane, and Cabins! East poured into a packed Cafe 9 Saturday night — and poured on the energy. Brian Slattery 20 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Big Girls Don’t Shy Big Girl Baby’s All Right 146 Broadway Williamsburg, Brooklyn Nov. 17, 2023 There’s nothing bare bones about Big Girl. Kaitlin Pelky’s femme-maximalist rock outfit commanded Baby’s K Hank Jost 19 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford The Trombone Sings at Black Eyed Sally’s Dr. Emmett Goods Black Eyed Sally’s Hartford Nov. 15, 2023 The trombone is not the first instrument I associate with jazz music. I’d seen trombones as part of Jamil Ragland 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa “Nobody Smokes Anymore” And Other Observations From Robert Ellis’s Visit To The Mercury Lounge Robert Ellis Mercury Lounge Tulsa Nov. 10, 2023 Live, songwriter and instrumentalist Robert Ellis zigs and zags between silly and poignant, gentle and effusive, bantering with the laugh of a Becky Carman 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Jazz Spacesters Bring Light To Dive Bar Tim Dahl, Matt Nelson, Alexis Marcelo, and Richard Edson Mama Tried 787 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NYC Nov. 15, 2023 Save for Chicago, New York City seems to me to be K Hank Jost 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford A Trip to the Emerald Isle, by Way of Hartford Music Mondays: Celtic Sounds Parkville Market, Hartford Nov. 13, 2023 “Make sure you come back, if you want to go even further down the rabbit hole.” That’s what Carol Jamil Ragland 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Look Out For Ian Taylor Sisters (feat. guitarist Ian Taylor) Park Side Lounge East Village, NYC Nov. 3, 2023 “It’s funny you say playing, because it’s all just that … It’s all playing. K Hank Jost 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Serious — Or Not — Petey Guns For The Crescendo Petey Warsaw Greenpoint, Brooklyn Nov. 10, 2023 “I read the Bible sometimes/ Please don’t make fun of me!” sang Petey’s front man, who I assumed goes by Pete. K Hank Jost 12 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Festival That Started With A Dream Dreamland Festival Guthrie Green Nov. 4, 2023 “If you build it, they will come”: This could be Steph Simon’s mantra. The Dreamland Festival (originally the World Culture Music Festival) Ryan Anderson 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA “King Of The Lesbians” Takes The Hollywood Bowl To Church HOZIER with MADISON CUNNINGHAM, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, November 4, 2023. From the sun-bleached stands of the Hollywood Bowl, the Hollywood Cross looms over the skyline, shiny as a warning. Avery Poznanski 9 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford A Gipsy (Kings) Journey At The Bushnell Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford Nov. 7 There’s a difference between thinking you don’t know something, and knowing you don’t know Jamil Ragland 8 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA boygenius Reviewer Succumbs To Crying Virus BOYGENIUS with 100 GECS and SLOPPY JANE Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles Oct. 31, 2023 Emo-folk supergroup boygenius joined hyperpop scoundrels 100 gecs and cinematic chamber-rockers Sloppy Jane for a Halloween A.J. Urquidi 6 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford 50 Years Down: Wadsworth Celebrates Hip-Hop Gardens and Galleries | Celebrating Hip-Hop at 50 The Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Nov. 2, 2023 When “Ms. Fat Booty” by Mos Def came on, I knew it was my type of Jamil Ragland 3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
