LA As Dark As It Can Be: billy woods and Elucid team up, and the lights go down ARMAND HAMMER (billy wood and Elucid) with OPEN MIKE EAGLE The Echo Los Angeles Oct. 13, 2023 On his most recent solo album — this spring’s Maps, produced entirely by Paul Thompson 16 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Don’t Look Now: Dad’s A … Metalhead? Bullet for My Valentine featuring Of Mice and Men and Vended Palladium Theater, Worcester, Mass. Oct. 10, 2023 Am I a metalhead now? I ask this question because I found Jamil Ragland 12 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven TV Girl Leaps From Viral Web To Sold-Out Stage The TV Girl All-Star Traveling Band, a California-based indie pop group that took TikTok by storm this year with a series of viral hits, landed at New Haven’s Toad’ Asher Joseph 12 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
NYC The New Was Still Happening George Lewis: Hearing Voices Performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble Roulette, Brooklyn Oct. 5, 2023 “This seems to happen more and more during my pieces,” George Lewis said with good K Hank Jost 6 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
LA Brexitcore Revelation: The Greatest Rock-Adjacent Song of the Century-in-Progress FONTAINES D.C. with BEEN STELLAR The Wiltern Los Angeles Oct. 3, 2023 Ambassadors of a new guard of post-punk revivalists — a wave referred to affectionately in forums as post-Brexitcore— A.J. Urquidi 6 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Noise Trumps Genre Neckbolt, Hissom, and Ivory Tusk Whittier Bar Oct. 2, 2023 Oklahoma music is broadly famous for its country megastars, for Red Dirt and Woody Guthrie, for Leon Russell and his Becky Carman 6 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA Want Inclusivity? Mosh LIFE SUXX HARDCORE FUCKS VOL. 6 Featuring NÜTT and BIG TECH Bad Dogg Compound South Los Angeles Sept. 30, 2023 As essential as Dodgers baseball and French dipped sandwiches at David Diaz 5 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Reno Chaos. Repeat. Chaos. Repeat … Fertilizer Fest The Holland Project 140 Vesta St, Reno, NV Sept. 30, 2023 Saturday’s Fertilizer Fest at the all-ages art space The Holland Project fried my brain so much Jose Davila IV 4 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Sometimes the Coolest Thing You Can Do is Write a 40-Minute Classical Piece About One of the Worst Things That’s Ever Happened Barron Ryan’s Debut of “There Arises Light (in the Darkness)” Sept. 29, 2023 Guthrie Green Tulsa pianist Barron Ryan’s work, indeed his general vibe as a performer, has Z.B. Reeves 4 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven boygenius Bowls Over New Haven Westville Music Bowl said so long to the summer and another full season of outdoor concerts with their closing show last night, headlined by none other than boygenius, a band Karen Ponzio 2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland A Whole Hella Love Danielle Helena in concert Towne Cycles Adeline Street, Oakland, Cal. Sept. 22, 2023 The backyard of Towne Cycles on Oakland’s Adeline Street hummed with clinking cans and whispered pleasantries Lauren Tannenbaum 2 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven New Haven Symphony Opens Season Triumphantly Towering C major chords from organ and orchestra in unison. Dazzling rhythmic interplay between soloist Joyce Yang and the orchestra. An energetic rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” resuming a tradition Adam Matlock 2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Old Farts Rock Still In Tuna: On "Last" Electric Tour, Jorma Kaukonen Shows Why Octogenarians Still Tour & Boomers Still Buy Tix Hot Tuna College Street Music Hall Sept. 27, 2023 Paul Bass 29 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
LA Bravery in the Blackness of Punk Soul Glo/ Zulu The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, California Sept. 15, 2023 There is an evergreen discomfort in being a Black punk going to the Roxy Theatre. The venue is Marcus Clayton 27 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven When Kristen Met Ani Watch out Taylor Swift: A DIY one-woman band catches a break, courtesy of her “Righteous Babe” hero, to release a liberation anthem for our times. Paul Bass 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland Ethiopian Musical Ambassadors Bring Down The House Ethiocolor Zanzi 19 Grand Ave., Oakland Sept. 19, 2023 The ensemble Ethiocolor brought an exuberant range of Ethiopian music and dance traditions from Addis Abba to Oakland’s Zanzi — and Lauren Tannenbaum 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA Was That A Sax? Or A Guitar? Pharoah Sanders' acclaimed 2021 album gets its first full live orchestra treatment. FLOATING POINTS PERFORMS PROMISES featuring Floating Points with Shabaka Hutchings, Kieran Hebden, Dan Snaith, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Hinako Emily VanKoughnett 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read