Philadelphia Dom Flemons Keeps Black Cowboy Music Alive His Way Dom Flemons City Winery Philadelphia April 19, 2024 “Don’t it always seem to go?” former Carolina Chocolate Drop and Black Cowboy Dom Flemons lamented into a City Winery microphone Nora Grace-Flood 21 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Herbie Hancock Can Be Your Grandpa For A Night Herbie Hancock Tulsa Performing Arts Center April 7, 2024 It was a privilege to watch Herbie Hancock cavort around a stage with a keytar. I hope you got to see Z.B. Reeves 19 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
LA Jazz Friends OUTSIDE WORLD 71 Studio Bar Los Angeles April 5, 2024 On my way to the jazz duo Outside World’s release show in Hollywood two Fridays ago, I learned from Tosten Burks 19 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Sam Carlson Plays Right On“Tine” Despite broken string, at the tiniest of tiny desks. Paul Bass 19 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Hipsters Storm Thee Stork For Cindy Lee Cindy Lee, Freak Heat Waves, Now Thee Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave. Oakland April 17th, 2024 On my way to Thee Stork Club, I could tell who was headed there Breezy Bratton 18 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Pearl Jam Album Bombs As A Movie Pearl Jam: Dark Matter in the Dark Landmark’s Ritz 5 214 Walnut St. Philadelphia April 16, 2024 The theater lights faded until nothing remained but the pixelated heads of Nora Grace-Flood 18 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
Oakland St. Juste Blooms At the Moxy Lalin St. Juste Live Bandcamp @ the Moxy Hotel 2225 Telegraph Ave. Oakland April 12, 2024 As folks filtered into the lobby of the Moxy Hotel to see local musician Lalin Lisa Gray 17 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
LA Modern Blur Is Not Rubbish BLUR: COACHELLA WARM-UP SHOW The Fox Theater Pomona April 10, 2024 Last Wednesday morning, I emerged from the supermarket with a two-liter bottle of electrolyte water and three energy bars, Brittany Menjivar 17 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa “We Have Arrived”: Envisioning Sovereign Futures Sovereign Futures Various locations April 4 – 7, 2024 Sovereign Futures, a multi-day program from the University of Tulsa, brought artists, academics, and others together for performances, exhibits, communal meals, chartered Alicia Chesser 15 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
LA Are You Receiving Her Psychic Messages? KENZY PEACH’S BRIC A BRAC BABY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW The Virgil Los Angeles April 6, 2024 Look up Kenzy Peach on Spotify, and you’ll find this bio: “Kenzy Brittany Menjivar 14 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Charlie Widmer Finds A Need For“Love” Charlie Widmer didn’t expect people to want to hear “What Do I Need With Love?” Now it’s the first of his songs some people will ever hear. Paul Bass 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Cold Brew Black Coffee and Friends Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland April 6, 2024 What is the juncture of house music fans, Afrobeats, West Coast culture, and a chilly April Saturday, you might Sarah Bass 12 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Jazz Jammer Takes A Bite Of Apple The Nicole Saphos Band Ortlieb’s April 8, 2024 Crammed around a three-person table at Ortlieb’s, I was listing to seven of my pals jokingly critique the “notes” of Nora Grace-Flood 11 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
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
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