New Haven “Apology From Hades”: Three Bands Make Sunday Sweeter Sunday nights find most people in the throes of anticipation of the week ahead, often lamenting the freedom of the weekend that they are leaving behind. Last night at Best Karen Ponzio 8 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
LA I Had the Time of My Afterlife WENZDAY’S PARTY Boardner’s Los Angeles Every Wednesday Los Angeles is goth the way apple pie is American. From the Old Hollywood fashions that influenced the modern goth aesthetic Brittany Menjivar 7 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Pharcyde: Vintage Vibes on the East Cyde The Pharcyde HiiiWAV Fest 2781 Telegraph Ave. June 8, 2024 Frederick Noland 3 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Electric Jazz For Lunch David Lechuga AMP/Oakland Central Lunch and Listen Latham Square 1500 Broadway Ave. Oakland June 20, 2024 Intermittent sunshine broke through, illuminating four men in varying states of dress for Sarah Bass 2 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia “Gifted” Schools Crowd On Hip-Hop The School of the Gifted World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut St. Philadelphia June 25, 2024 The School of the Gifted — a Philly-based hip hop troupe composed of eight members — performed Lindo Yes 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Salsa & Afropop Find Unity In Rhythm At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice, Brian Slattery 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa For The East, By The East Face The East Lil Brown’s Bar Tulsa June 18 – 19, 2024 Everybody thinks of the north side when they think about Tulsa hip-hop. But it’s a little known Ryan Anderson 30 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Every Song Has To Start Somewhere I Can’t… Write a Song! Workshop TCC McKeon Center for Creativity Tulsa June 22, 2024 Songwriting is a strange art, hard to explain, harder to practice. The art of Z.B. Reeves 30 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed Robin Lapid 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Bossa Nova Energizes, As Arts & Ideas Fest Nears Finish The evening was warm but not too warm, the New Haven Green was packed full of people, and the sweet sounds of Brazilian bossa nova perfumed the air. Caro Pierotto, Eleanor Polak 28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia People I Love Embrace Imperfection People I Love PhilaMoca 531 N 12th St. Philadelphia June 26, 2024 Dan Poppa winced during the soundcheck as he requested some fine-tuning on the guitar levels. From my front Nora Grace-Flood 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Joy Resounds Samara Joy wowed the crowd at College Street Music Hall Wednesday night with her powerhouse vocal stylings aspart of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. A rising star in Karen Ponzio 27 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford J‑Lab Rocks The Red Brick Road Mic Amplify Under 21 Open Mic Pratt Street Hartford June 25, 2024 The Amplify Open Mic held on the famous red bricks of Pratt Street in Hartford Tueday night was the Jamil Ragland 26 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Jazzed for Brunch Jazz Brunch with Future Standard The Cook and Her Farmer 510 9th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 You know the vibes at a jazz brunch are immaculate when a diner Robin Lapid 24 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Rhythms Cross Continents As Ukrainian, Haitian musicians perform on the New Haven Green for the Festival of Arts & Ideas. Brian Slattery 21 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
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
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