New Haven Orange Street Goes To Hell In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too. Hell Fairy is made Dereen Shirnekhi 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
LA Mitksi Blows Past Fans’ (9 PM) Curfew MITSKI with JULIA JACKLIN Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles March 29, 2024 As countless critics have observed, the attention-based economy is killing live music. Case in point: Mitski’s concerts represent Rory Hayes 10 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Neko Case Storms The Barn Neko Case Redwood Barn Gundlach Bundschu Winery Somona, Cal. March 26, 2024 (Advice: Pinch and zoom the images below to read more easily.) Frederick Noland 9 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven From Cameroon, With Futuristic Hope A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night featured a stunning set of music from Blick Bassy. Born in Cameroon and now living in France, the 50-year-old Bassy has Brian Slattery 8 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Global Metal “Family” Unites, 2 Minutes To Tulsa 2 Minutes to Tulsa The Vanguard & Cain’s Ballroom March 29 – 31, 2024 A few years back, Swedish old-school metallers Screamer popped into Tulsa, and my band, Blind Oath, Mitch Gilliam 7 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
LA Sierra Ferrell Shoots For The Moon SIERRA FERRELL: SHOOT FOR THE MOON TOUR The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles April 3, 2024. While I don’t exactly know what a honky-tonk is, I’ve always wanted to Kate Sadoff 7 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Woody Guthrie Lives In Beat Root Revival Beat Root Revival Mercury Lounge March 28, 2024 England’s Ben Jones and Ireland’s Andrea Magee make up Beat Root Revival, an acoustic duo that combines the best of Z.B. Reeves 7 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Cellist Doesn’t Miss A Beat Johnathan Moore was ready to add a layer of sound. He reached for the Boss RC 600 loop station pedal and … nothing. Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He Paul Bass 5 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Weird Sounds Hit Right At Home In West Oakland West Oakland Sound Series 2201 Poplar Street March 30, 2024 I left the West Oakland Sound Series on Sunday night absolutely tickled with the write-up I knew I had ahead Sonya Harway 4 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave The jury is still out on whether American culture, or the music industry, can create another superstar, like Michael Jackson or Prince, like Madonna or Bruce Springsteen. Maybe Beyoncé, now Brian Slattery 4 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland “Time Won’t Wait” for Piedmont Jazz Bands Piedmont Middle and High School Jazz Bands Yoshi’s 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland April 1, 2024 Jack London Square buzzed with Piedmont Middle and High School jazz band students and Breezy Bratton 3 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Songwriter Series Comes To Cafe Nine Pete Greco had a series of requests for the audience at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night. Did anyone know how to tune a guitar? Did anyone have any tattoos? The Brian Slattery 3 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
LA Innocent Until Proven Guilty of Shoegazing SLIDE AWAY FEST featuring NOTHING PERFORMING GUILTY OF EVERYTHING and friends The Belasco Los Angeles March 31, 2024 Members of the jury, I understand you have a verdict in the A.J. Urquidi 2 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
LA Kim Gordon Sells Out The Regent — But Never The Chaos KIM GORDON with TWIG HARPER The Regent Theater Los Angeles March 27, 2024 Sometimes when I’m trying to fall asleep, I imagine I’m a ghost in a strange Greg Dillon 1 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
NYC harf. Will Get There Review of harf. Mercury Lounge NYC 3/28/24 My little brother is in town, his first time in NYC. Ahead of his visit I asked him to search around K Hank Jost 29 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven MJ Bones Lives, Unplugged “If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.” Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on Paul Bass 29 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Songs Swapped As A Hideaway Turns Into A Writer’s Kitchen Writer’s Kitchen Jane’s Hideaway Nashville 3/26/24 As soon as the first writer started singing, Jane’s Hideaway changed from a full restaurant to a listening room, Libby Weitnauer 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford All-Women Jazz Trio Breaks Sound Barriers GATHER Women in Jazz: Interview and Concert with Mimi Jones Hartford Public Library Center for Contemporary Culture Hartford March 26, 2024 I’d never seen an all-women jazz performance before, Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
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