New Haven “Gunge, I Am The Slime” Best Video Film & Cultural Center was alight on Friday night with movies, music, and general merriment. Three acts — Dan Soto’s Natural Fool, Katy Pinke, and Sallow Friend — performed Eleanor Polak 28 May 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Philly Band Brings Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music To Tulsa Philadelphia’s HIRS Collective With Hissom And Diced The Whittier Bar Tulsa May 15, 2024 CARL ANTONOWICZ 26 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Like The Devil’s On Their Back: The HIRS Collective’s Heavy, Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music The HIRS Collective With Hissom And Diced The Whittier Bar Tulsa May 15, 2024 CARL ANTONOWICZ 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford The Mountain Comes Alive With Music Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort Press Conference Middlefield, Conn. May 5, 2023 What do you do at a place like Powder Ridge when there’s no snow on the Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Bittersweet Wednesday Recollections WEDNESDAY with DRAAG The Bellwether Los Angeles May 17, 2024 My mid-twenties were a strange time. I was perpetually poor, carless (and soon, following a theft from the side of David Diaz 24 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Music Al Fresco: There’s A New Sound in Town Tracy Cruz AMP Lunch and Listen Franklin Square 2204 Broadway Ave. Oakland May 15, 2024 The midday sun was bright and strong, but thankfully Franklin Square in Uptown Oakland was Sarah Bass 23 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Julia’s War Fest Plays Hooky Hooky at Julia’s War Fest Ukie Club 847 N. Franklin St. Philadelphia May 19, 2024 Two-person indie electronica band Hooky adapted their lo-fi recorded tracks for live listening Saturday Nora Grace-Flood 21 May 2024 · 5 min read
LA Squawking, As A Symptom THE STRINGS/KEYS REINCIDENCE: A RESIDENCY WITH JOANNA NEWSOM The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever May 15 – 19 + May 26 – 27, 2024 The first sound I heard on Thursday night Dandi Meng 21 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland The Sound Of Hearts On A Gravel Road Waxahatchee The Fox Theater 2807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland May 18, 2024 To hear Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee wallop a crowd with her full-bodied wail of a voice and her plaintive, Robin Lapid 21 May 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven This Is How To Rock A Monday New Haven-based artist Michael Miglietta has a visual style that leans into the surreal and the cosmic, creating dizzying, shape-shifting images with bold linework and vivid color. Under the moniker Brian Slattery 21 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Pop Dance Party For The Proletariat Belle and Sebastian The Fox Theater 1807 Telegraph Ave. Oakland May 16, 2024 In the world of Scottish indie pop, Belle and Sebastian surely must be the hardest working band Robin Lapid 21 May 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa My Dating Life Is Going Great, In Part Thanks To Classical Music In Tulsa Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Mahler’s Fifth Tulsa Performing Arts Center May 11, 2024 Since I moved to Tulsa last year, I’ve paired up with one of this city’s Yvonne Hazelton 19 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Travelers Come Out At Night — & Hit the Right Note Over The Rainbow: A Free Concert Presented by the Travelers Chorale Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford May 16, 2024 Life is full of surprises, and I experienced an excellent Jamil Ragland 17 May 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Groundwaves: Underground Music’s Solution To Artist Development Groundwaves Skyline Mansion Tulsa May 9, 2024 The music industry is in shambles. Music labels across the nation are either closing up shop or consolidating departments in an effort to Ryan Anderson 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Love n’Co Brings The Love In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands Dereen Shirnekhi 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “What, You Don’t Like Keyboards?” Fantastic Negrito & Friends Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland May 10, 2024 Seeing Fantastic Negrito & Friends at the latest Friday night event at Oakland Museum of Breezy Bratton 15 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Dave Cope Crafts A “Hidden World” Dave Cope and the Sass Dawson St. Pub 100 Dawson St. Philadelphia May 10, 2024 Shadows of cigarette smoke cha-cha’d alongside smooth-moving middle-agers on the makeshift dance floor of Nora Grace-Flood 14 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford “The Hartford Sound” Is A Real Thing Jazz 201: Unsung Legends and the Hartford Jazz Scene Hartford Public Library Hartford May 13, 2024 There’s a special sound that only jazz musicians trained in Hartford can perform. Jamil Ragland 14 May 2024 · 3 min read