Oakland Summer Starts With An Indie Pop Oakland Weekender Thee Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave. Oakland June 7, 2024 Summer in June is lovely in theory, but every true Bay Area local knows that our mercurial microclimates Stacey Peters 10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl Milling around the floor-level seating area at the Westville Music Bowl on Friday night, I had no particular idea what I was in for. I had come to review a Mark Oppenheimer 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Bus Stop Jam Sesh Jazzes Up Dollar Strollers Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll June 6, 2024 Philadelphia The Dollar Stroll returned to West Philly last week, with businesses along Baltimore Avenue selling goods to the tune of between $1 Lindo Yes 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three’s Harmony “Everything’s meant to be broken / Everything’s meant to pass …” Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact Paul Bass 7 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA Syd Barrett Roosts In Robyn Hitchock’s Head ROBYN HITCHCOCK Zebulon Los Angeles May 21, 2024 In the end, Pink Floyd was a gigantic rock band. But before that, under founder Syd Barrett, it was a deep and Jack Skelley 7 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Musicians Lend A Hand Chloe, of the Hartford-based band Cvmrats, told stories about deceased friends and the difficulties of being mistaken for a train hopper, but everyone at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night knew Brian Slattery 5 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA Screamo? You Wouldn’t Understand YOUR RENAISSANCE FEST: JEROMES DREAM, LOMA PRIETA, and friends 1720 Los Angeles May 24, 2024 Screamo is a fickle beast often fawned over by the hard-to-please. As a derivative of David Diaz 3 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Stories Told Through Song The music room in Never Ending Books at 810 State St. was cluttered but homey. A collage of brightly-colored abstract art and painted records decorated the walls, which were lined Eleanor Polak 3 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Natural Wonders: Red Dirt, Bluegrass & Heartbreak With Three Tulsa Songwriters Kalyn Fay, Justin Bloss, Mallory Eagle Belafonte Tulsa May 24, 2024 Belafonte is like your cool friend’s house, a west Tulsa gem of a venue just off Charles Page Jennie The Lloyd 2 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Piaget Crashes Tha Cataclysm Armando Acevedo clicked on a file from his phone. He unrolled a taped-together 10-page scroll. He started rapping the printed lyrics, summoning the insights of a noted 20th century Swiss Paul Bass 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
It Must Be Love Or Madness Madness The Fox Theater 1807 Telegraph Ave. Oakland May 23, 2024 If you ever thought your middle-aged years weren’t meant for raising hell, just say to hell with the Stacey Peters 28 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Pearl Jam Won’t Back Down PEARL JAM: DARK MATTER TOUR with DEEP SEA DIVER Kia Forum Inglewood May 22, 2024 I, a regular concert frequenter, have never encountered anything like the novelty I experienced at A.J. Urquidi 28 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven “Gunge, I Am The Slime” Best Video Film & Cultural Center was alight on Friday night with movies, music, and general merriment. Three acts — Dan Soto’s Natural Fool, Katy Pinke, and Sallow Friend — performed Eleanor Polak 28 May 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Philly Band Brings Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music To Tulsa Philadelphia’s HIRS Collective With Hissom And Diced The Whittier Bar Tulsa May 15, 2024 CARL ANTONOWICZ 26 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Like The Devil’s On Their Back: The HIRS Collective’s Heavy, Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music The HIRS Collective With Hissom And Diced The Whittier Bar Tulsa May 15, 2024 CARL ANTONOWICZ 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford The Mountain Comes Alive With Music Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort Press Conference Middlefield, Conn. May 5, 2023 What do you do at a place like Powder Ridge when there’s no snow on the Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Bittersweet Wednesday Recollections WEDNESDAY with DRAAG The Bellwether Los Angeles May 17, 2024 My mid-twenties were a strange time. I was perpetually poor, carless (and soon, following a theft from the side of David Diaz 24 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Music Al Fresco: There’s A New Sound in Town Tracy Cruz AMP Lunch and Listen Franklin Square 2204 Broadway Ave. Oakland May 15, 2024 The midday sun was bright and strong, but thankfully Franklin Square in Uptown Oakland was Sarah Bass 23 May 2024 · 3 min read