LA Remember World Peace? WORLD PEACE, SCALP, KIND EYES, and friends Bricks Rock Bar Maywood, Cal. Jan. 26, 2024 When I’m an old biddy in a rocking chair on a porch overlooking the David Diaz 8 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Nashville 1/28/24 “Enjoy the bar!” said the bouncer, as he stamped my hand on my way Libby Weitnauer 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Trims Turn Up The Sound And Turn On The Bright Lights Mod80s Disco Presents The Trims Elbo Room Oakland Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I have fond memories of late nights-into-early mornings spent dancing the night away at the Elbo Room in Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Leela James Rocks The Fox Leela James Fox Theater Oakland Jan. 26, 2024 Leela James, aka The Goddaughter of Soul, took the stage at the Fox Theater and, let me tell you, she didn’t Lisa Gray 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Chicago Chicago Brands Mix With Bands As Smashed Plastic Turns 5 Smashed Plastic Undisclosed venue Chicago Feb. 3, 2024 Smashed Plastic’s logo says it all: the Chicago-born vinyl pressing plant’s insignia features one of the ubiquitous red, six-point stars Allison HadleyDaniel Shoemaker 6 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
NYC Brass Busts Into Hidden DIY Spot Fly By Brass Band Rubulad Brooklyn Feb. 4, 2024 In my years in NYC I’ve spent many a Saturday night in Bushwick’s Rubulad — address to remain undisclosed. It’ K Hank Jost 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Roll Over, Steinway Paolo Fazioli Talk on Fazioli Pianos Piedmont Piano Company Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 I was among a few dozen guests milling about Piedmont Piano Company when a bottle of Prosecco Robin Lapid 4 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Dreams Meet Drums As Tulsa Hip-Hop Legends Come Full Circle The Oilhouse Drummer Show Soundpony Tulsa Jan. 27, 2024 Hip-hop has always been a young person’s sport. Unlike in other genres, the pioneers don’t often get the same Ryan Anderson 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Taína Asili Finds The Beat In Climate Crisis Fever Pitch The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Jan. 27, 2024 The most striking feature of Taína Asili’s evolving multimedia concert/performance piece Fever Pitch, RS Benedict 2 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Abandon All Bummers, Ye Who Karaoke Here Karaoke Mondays Whittier Bar Tulsa Jan. 29, 2024 The Whittier Bar’s front door is emblazoned with an all-caps warning: NO BUMMERS. It’s a good reminder for a Monday, Becky Carman 1 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Minneapolis Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex Drone Not Drones Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis 1/26 – 1/27, 2024 By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going Alexis Zanghi 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization Ziona Riley, Neil O’Neil, Dylan Whitlow Brown’s Diner Nashville 1/25/24 With a strip of computer paper taped on the shelves behind the bar that reads “booking Libby Weitnauer 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Opening Act Steals The Show Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault, Z.B. Reeves 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Grab A Kazoo On Your Way Into Knipple’s Moody Barnyard Knipple’s Variety of Games Show Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 16, 2024 Your next free Tuesday night begs to be taken up by the Knipple residency at Thelma’s Z.B. Reeves 25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville Steve Daly Slides In At The Underdog Steve Daly and The Cumberland Sliders The Underdog Nashville 1/23/24 “I wish I woulda quit this shit a long time ago/ but now I’m standing in a Libby Weitnauer 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Barbells, Betty Boop As Bodybuilder: Girl Power On Tour Hit Bargain, Gianna Gianna, Sarah Register Zebulon Los Angeles Jan. 20, 2024 For all the ink spilled over which of the two largest cities in the United States reigns supreme, Jamie Peck 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
