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
NYC Jazz Club Crushed Dollars Performing at Barbés 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn Nov. 2, 2023 Warning: This article is going to read less like a review, and more like a love-letter to K Hank Jost 3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA Gaggle Of Glam Saviors Fly West GEESE with YHWH NAILGUN Constellation Room Santa Ana, Cal. Oct. 26, 2023 “Thanks for coming to a Geese show,” singer Cameron Winter addressed us at Santa Ana’s Constellation Room. A.J. Urquidi 2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Ecstatic Chaos. Not Ambivalent Miss Ambivalent Freddy’s Bar South Slope, Brooklyn Oct. 27, 2023 If you were to belly up to the bar at Freddie’s this past Friday, kicking off Hallo-Weekend surrounded K Hank Jost 31 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Reno Halloween Vibes Get Funky In Reno Freaky Funky Fright Night Phat Mark, R Cade Daddies, Honey Plant The Cypress 761 S. Virginia St., Reno Oct. 27, 2023 A werewolf, a vampire, a skeleton, and Satan (?) step Jose Davila IV 30 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa This Machine Brings Us Together Damion Shade and The Boom Bap Chorus Month-long residency Mercury Lounge Tulsa Oct. 16, 2023 When it comes to music, politics can be a powerful inspiration. Damion Shade knows this Ryan Anderson 30 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Husbands Pop Rocks Husbands The Vanguard Tulsa Oct. 22, 2023 If you inextricably entangled your young adult emotions with the early 2000s Los Angeles pop rock scene — think Rilo Kiley, Phantom Planet, and Becky Carman 27 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Nowhere Lands The Seshen Somewhere New After more than a decade The Seshen deliver their fourth full-length LP, “Nowhere,” their most complete project to date. The Seshen with Boostive “Nowhere” Album Release Party The New Parish Sayre Piotrkowski 27 Oct 2023 · 4 min read