Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Anemic Queer Femmes Rock Mommy Mommy, comprised of four UC Berkeley students, is all about spreading sad gurl rock: They’re queer, they’re loud, they’re sad, and they want you to know Sarah Bass 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch “Crime Wave” Tour Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical Karen Ponzio 5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NW Arkansas Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart At the Meteor Guitar Gallery, an up-and-coming music venue in Northwest Arkansas, I was hoping to see a Lou Reed tribute act. The act, a local band audaciously named Blew Mickey Mercier 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Sofar Sounds So Good at Boston HQ The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there’s Sasha Patkin 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Tulsa Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Delaney Silvernell Gives All Clear To Dance Pop musicians have a reputation for artificiality, but there was nothing manufactured about Delaney Silvernell’s show at Albany’s Fuze Box last Friday. The former contestant of The Voice RS Benedict 30 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford A Little Rain Can’t Ruin A Great Surprise At last, the summer heat seemed to have broken. That influenced my decision to take the bus to my latest review instead of an Uber. The heat had been so Jamil Ragland 28 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Three Bands Bare Their Gritty Hearts On Wednesday three rock bands — Cabins, East!, Pyramid Rose Band, and headliner Laney Jones — brought loud guitars, driving drums, strong vocals, and a lot of heart to a rapturous audience Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Hannah Dasher’s Country Rock Is Large And In Charge If you like country music and haven’t heard of Hannah Dasher, I’d bet some honey-buttered biscuits on that fixing to change. Seeing is believing, and I bore witness Mitch Gilliam 25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Honky Tonk Hero Serves Up Country Crooning If you have, as Junior Brown sang, spent “too many nights in a roadhouse,” you can now get your fill of country music and cold drinks during daylight hours on Becky Carman 23 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Raucous Bluegrass Flows From Missouri To New Haven As Lindley Creek takes the stage at Cafe Nine. Click here to continue reading Brian’s review. Brian Slattery 17 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Emcees on Main: Tulsa Veterans & Rookies Mix It Up For Hip Hop’s 50th Culture Over Everything Presents: Happy Birthday To H.E.R. Aug. 11, 2023 Soundpony “You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far.” This iconic line from The Notorious Ryan Anderson 16 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Three Bands Rock It Easy Three New Haven-based bands took the stage at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown Tuesday night to share new songs, try out new ideas, and ease into Brian Slattery 16 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Troy/Albany Powwow Drums Set Heartbeat For Wild Musical Ride At a Medicine Singers show, barriers are loose suggestions, meant to be crossed: barriers between music styles, and cultures, and time. The group’s sound combines powwow drumming with psychedelic RS Benedict 15 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford 50 Cent Goes 50 – 50 “Excuse me, what are you writing?” I looked up from my notepad. A short Latina with bright eyes and wavy brown hair was standing over me. I was sitting on Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Moshing To The Smiths Math-punkers Shed Life kicked off a four-band, 17-person blow-out that made the Gather coffeehouse on State Street feel like it could burst at the seams. Instead of exploding outward, the Eleanor Polak 14 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
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