Tulsa Messy, Slippery, Smart, Terrifying Jazz Delivers For This Trying Time NOLATET LowDown jazz club Sept. 16, 2023 Last Saturday night, I saw the New Orleans-based NOLATET play at LowDown, the Arts District’s basement jazz club. Made up of Brian Z.B. Reeves 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa An Evergreen Band Finds A Fresh Peach Perch Tom Skinner’s Science Project Thelma’s Peach Aug. 30, 2023 Thelma’s Peach is tiny inside and out. There’s a neon peach emanating a warm glow from above Becky Carman 21 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland At Fairy-Filled Fest, AroMa Emerges At a magical mini festival, an emerging artist takes center stage -- and their place as a sound sensation. Through the Looking Glass: An Evening With SPELLLING and Friends Children’ Sarah Bass 20 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
NYC Vox Populi, Vox Dei Lapsed Lutheran finds his chin trembling, tongue frozen amid the voices of Sacred Harp. Sacred Harp Singing Brooklyn Friends Meeting House 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn Sept. 17, 2023 Shrouded in K Hank Jost 20 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Outsider Sound-Makers Plug In One Aux: An Open Mic for the Sonically Curious Heirloom Rustic Ales Sept. 13, 2023 Tulsa’s experimental music scene has grown steadily over the last decade, becoming a fertile Brad Rose 20 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Monday Night Tootball Hartford Jazz Orchestra Elicit Brewery Manchester, Conn. Sept. 18, 2023 This may have been the first time I’ve gone to a bar on a Monday night for a reason Jamil Ragland 19 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Not The Same As It Ever Was 2 genre-mashing bands invent the future out of the past in a Brooklyn dive bar. LINKS and Imaginary Tricks Gold Sounds Bar 44 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn Sept. 13, 2023 I’ K Hank Jost 18 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA A Fairycore Revelation Unfolds, Vocal On Top Of Layered Vocal Black Country, New Road with Little Wings Downtown Los Angeles August 31, 2023 Ushers and security guards corralled me inside the Regent before Black Country, New Road’s sold out Danielle Clough 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Went To The Super Bowl of Classical Music Tulsa Symphony brings in a guest to shake up an old favorite. Tulsa Symphony Opening Night September 9, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 — the one Z.B. Reeves 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Reno Originals Trump Covers At Folkie Pignic By Karrie O’Neill’s own admittance, it was a weird night at Pignic Pub & Patio in Reno. At one point during her first set, her iPad with her Jose Davila IV 11 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven CT Folk Fest Sweetens The Heart Highway philosophers, bossa nova and a NYC harpist-singer-writer added new texture and kept the mood vibrant at New Haven’s 30th annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo. Karen Ponzio 11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford Bella’s Bartok Beats The Post-Pandemic Blues It was an interesting concert — and that was before Jack Skellington showed up. But allow me to take a few steps back. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Jamil Ragland 8 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Toad’s Place Rocks In Memory Of Rohn Lawrence Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, Lisa Gray 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Anemic Queer Femmes Rock Mommy Mommy, comprised of four UC Berkeley students, is all about spreading sad gurl rock: They’re queer, they’re loud, they’re sad, and they want you to know Sarah Bass 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch “Crime Wave” Tour Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical Karen Ponzio 5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read