Nashville Bossa Nova Brightens A Blue Room Josh Halper’s Bossa Nova Band The Blue Room Nashville Jan. 4, 2024 I had a headache and noticed a smell of burnt rubber. I discovered I had been driving Libby Weitnauer 7 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Jazz Feels Real At A Fiction Bar Skylar Floe Quartet Fiction Bar Williamsburg, NYC Jan. 6, 2024 Dim lights and original, vintage trim along the walls. The warmth of wood. Mirrors to make it all seem big. K Hank Jost 7 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Kevin Saint James Smokes The Owl Shop It was 9:30 on Wednesday evening at the Owl Shop on College Street and already the Kevin Saint James Band had relaxed into an easy swing. Plumes of smoke Brian Slattery 4 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Vinyl Breathes Anew, With A Whiskey Chaser Bar Shiru Selector Series 1611 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Dec. 20th, 2023 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s poet laureate, closed out season seven of Bar Shiru’s Selector Series by selecting Lisa Gray 3 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Nashville Music City Bar and Grill Makes Another World On Old Ground Nathan Belt Music City Bar and Grill Nashville Dec. 30, 2023 “It’s music from outer space,” my show-going companion Will Johnson said to me. It’s difficult to convey Libby Weitnauer 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
NYC A True Fabel: East Village Turns Out For A Hip-Hop Legend In Hour Of Need Fundraiser Party for Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabone Big Bar East Village, Manhattan Dec. 20, 2023 Lower Manhattan’s Big Bar is a place well known for the being a center K Hank Jost 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Musicians Pay Tribute To Shane MacGowan Gary Mezzi, a.k.a. Buzz Gordo (pictured above), beamed from behind a 12-string guitar on the stage of Cafe Nine Tuesday night. “This is a song about the demise Brian Slattery 21 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Graf Closes Curtain On 20-Year “Cinemagrind” Hardcore Career GRAF ORLOCK with SUPERVOID CHORALE ENSEMBLE, DANGERS, and THOU Echoplex Los Angeles Dec. 15, 202, and Chain Reaction Anaheim Dec. 16, 2023 In 2008, I met Jason Schmidt in an David Diaz 20 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC A Group Effort Toward A Less Lonely World Suicide: An Anthology Release Reading The Red Room East Village, NYC Dec. 17, 2023 (Note: If you or a loved one are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call 988 K Hank Jost 19 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Candy Cain’s: An Evening Of Sheer Joy With JD McPherson JD McPherson’s “Socks: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tour” Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa OK Dec. 9, 2023 “Presents are coming,” JD McPherson said with uncharacteristic austerity, flanked by strings Becky Carman 19 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Chicago Honky Tonk Fills The Empty Bottle Hard Country Honky Tonk The Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave. Chicago Dec. 15, 2023 “And I’ve got swinging doors, a jukebox and a bar stool / And my new Daniel Shoemaker & Allison Hadley 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Nico Hedley Rocks The Pool Nico Hedley Union Pool Brooklyn, N.Y. Dec. 14, 2023 It takes a whole helluva lot to get me to go Williamsburg’s Union Pool, a bar that’s never K Hank Jost 18 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
NW Arkansas The Transfiguration of Sawyer Hill Sawyer Hill Meteor Guitar Gallery Bentonville, Ark. Dec. 8, 2023 Alt-rock singer Sawyer Hill has a new band, new songs and 70,000 followers on TikTok. Headlining a near-capacity concert Mickey Mercier 15 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA Holy Strike: Carolers Crash The Inn A WORKER’S POSADA Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Dec. 8, 2023 The first thing I saw upon approaching the Sheraton Gateway was a swarm of hotel workers in red T‑ Claire Lewandowski 15 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA I Fell In Love With Jenny Lewis All Over Again Jenny Lewis Joy’all Ball Tour Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles Dec. 8, 2023 The soap dispenser in the women’s bathroom was malfunctioning at the Jenny Lewis concert at the Madeline Connors 13 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Kapelye Makes It“Nu Haven Style” “Turetskaya,” the opening number on the Nu Haven Kapelye’s new album, Nu Haven Style — to be officially released the day of the klezmer orchestra’s annual concert at Congregation Brian Slattery 13 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Long Live The Beehive Queen There are three things you can count on in December: stores jammed with holiday shoppers, roads jammed with holiday travelers, and Christine Ohlman jamming though The Beehive Holiday Blowout at Karen Ponzio 11 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Nashville Nashville’s Musician Test Kitchen Bubbles Kaitlyn Raitz Bowery Vault Nashville Dec. 5, 2023 Kaitlyn Raitz looked down at her cello and the pedal board to the right of her right foot and said to the Libby Weitnauer 11 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
