LA Bravery in the Blackness of Punk Soul Glo/ Zulu The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, California Sept. 15, 2023 There is an evergreen discomfort in being a Black punk going to the Roxy Theatre. The venue is Marcus Clayton 27 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven When Kristen Met Ani Watch out Taylor Swift: A DIY one-woman band catches a break, courtesy of her “Righteous Babe” hero, to release a liberation anthem for our times. Paul Bass 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland Ethiopian Musical Ambassadors Bring Down The House Ethiocolor Zanzi 19 Grand Ave., Oakland Sept. 19, 2023 The ensemble Ethiocolor brought an exuberant range of Ethiopian music and dance traditions from Addis Abba to Oakland’s Zanzi — and Lauren Tannenbaum 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA Was That A Sax? Or A Guitar? Pharoah Sanders' acclaimed 2021 album gets its first full live orchestra treatment. FLOATING POINTS PERFORMS PROMISES featuring Floating Points with Shabaka Hutchings, Kieran Hebden, Dan Snaith, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Hinako Emily VanKoughnett 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Messy, Slippery, Smart, Terrifying Jazz Delivers For This Trying Time NOLATET LowDown jazz club Sept. 16, 2023 Last Saturday night, I saw the New Orleans-based NOLATET play at LowDown, the Arts District’s basement jazz club. Made up of Brian Z.B. Reeves 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Greil Marcus Finally Finds, Tells The “Secret History” Legendary culture writer opens up at launch of annual writer-award fest. A rumination on the question of why people write — delivered by legendary culture writer Greil Marcus — that took in Brian Slattery 21 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa An Evergreen Band Finds A Fresh Peach Perch Tom Skinner’s Science Project Thelma’s Peach Aug. 30, 2023 Thelma’s Peach is tiny inside and out. There’s a neon peach emanating a warm glow from above Becky Carman 21 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland At Fairy-Filled Fest, AroMa Emerges At a magical mini festival, an emerging artist takes center stage -- and their place as a sound sensation. Through the Looking Glass: An Evening With SPELLLING and Friends Children’ Sarah Bass 20 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
NYC Vox Populi, Vox Dei Lapsed Lutheran finds his chin trembling, tongue frozen amid the voices of Sacred Harp. Sacred Harp Singing Brooklyn Friends Meeting House 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn Sept. 17, 2023 Shrouded in K Hank Jost 20 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Outsider Sound-Makers Plug In One Aux: An Open Mic for the Sonically Curious Heirloom Rustic Ales Sept. 13, 2023 Tulsa’s experimental music scene has grown steadily over the last decade, becoming a fertile Brad Rose 20 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Monday Night Tootball Hartford Jazz Orchestra Elicit Brewery Manchester, Conn. Sept. 18, 2023 This may have been the first time I’ve gone to a bar on a Monday night for a reason Jamil Ragland 19 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Not The Same As It Ever Was 2 genre-mashing bands invent the future out of the past in a Brooklyn dive bar. LINKS and Imaginary Tricks Gold Sounds Bar 44 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn Sept. 13, 2023 I’ K Hank Jost 18 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA A Fairycore Revelation Unfolds, Vocal On Top Of Layered Vocal Black Country, New Road with Little Wings Downtown Los Angeles August 31, 2023 Ushers and security guards corralled me inside the Regent before Black Country, New Road’s sold out Danielle Clough 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Went To The Super Bowl of Classical Music Tulsa Symphony brings in a guest to shake up an old favorite. Tulsa Symphony Opening Night September 9, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 — the one Z.B. Reeves 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC No One Stole The Show, But … In which a writer discovers why it might be worth showing up at an open mic even though neither he nor a friend is performing. Easy Paradise Open Mic The K Hank Jost 13 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Reno Originals Trump Covers At Folkie Pignic By Karrie O’Neill’s own admittance, it was a weird night at Pignic Pub & Patio in Reno. At one point during her first set, her iPad with her Jose Davila IV 11 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven CT Folk Fest Sweetens The Heart Highway philosophers, bossa nova and a NYC harpist-singer-writer added new texture and kept the mood vibrant at New Haven’s 30th annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo. Karen Ponzio 11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
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