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
Oakland Anything Goes Chorus Rings in Spring Anything Goes Chorus 2024 Spring Concert First Unitarian Church 695 14th St. Oakland March 24, 2024 I didn’t expect the First Unitarian Church downtown on the corner of 14th Breezy Bratton 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland The Battle Of The Lanky British Frontmen The Vaccines and The Kooks The Fox Theater Oakland March 22, 2024 It was the unofficial early aughts battle of the lanky British frontmen this past Friday night at The Robin Lapid 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Composer-Performer Welps Across Genres H.G. Welp Heaven Can Wait LES, NYC March 23, 2024 I’ve said it once before, and I’ll say it again — I cannot stand the venue Heaven Can K Hank Jost 25 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Shandy Lawson Sings Stories A chair and a guitar. A table holding an old-fashioned radio. A vase full of purple flowers. A teacup and saucer. Was this a scene from an oft-told tale or Karen Ponzio 25 Mar 2024 · 1 min read