New Haven “Humans Is On The Fritz” Surviving techno-dystopia, with the help of New Haven-based Sotolish’s new EP Neon Black. Brian Slattery 22 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Willi Carlisle Hits Close To Home Willi Carlisle: The Critterland! Tour Mercury Lounge Tulsa July 11, 2024 In Willi Carlisle’s song “Tulsa’s Last Magician,” an aspiring trickster lives and dies on the side streets Z.B. Reeves 21 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland A Mesmerizing Immersion Into Light And Darkness “12 Symbols” directed by Christoper Robin Duncan “Where You Need to Be: Teleportation Studies” by Solée Darrell “The Space Between Years” by Christopher Robin Duncan Pt.2 Gallery 1523b Webster Agustín Maes 18 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven “You Smell Too Good” 4 bands keep it tight at 3 Sheets. Brian Slattery 15 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Doomgazing Under The Post-Hardcore Umbrella Nightosphere / Porcelain / Facet / Sun Vow Whittier Bar Tulsa July 3, 2024 If you’ve been reading our reviews from Tulsa for a minute, you’ll know Whittier Bar is as Mitch Gilliam 15 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Decades Later, Brian Ember Finishes The Song Brian Ember started singing a verse he wrote 22 years ago, to a song he’s just now figuring out how to complete. The song is called “No Radio Inside. Paul Bass 12 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Lunch, Not A Lady, Tonight Lydia Lunch and the Big Sexy Noise PhilaMOCA 531 N 12th St. Philadelphia July 8, 2024 “I think I wanna start wearing a burqa,” my friend, dressed in short-shorts and Nora Grace-Flood 11 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
Hartford Funk Felt In The Feet Funk Night Arch Street Tavern Hartford July 10, 2024 By the time the band BooYah finished their first song of the evening, the dance floor at Arch Street Tavern was Jamil Ragland 11 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven West African Kora Master Hypnotizes Cafe 9 The chitchat at Cafe Nine on Wednesday might have been getting a little intense, but a flourish of notes from the 21-string kora of Madou Sidiki Diabaté was enough to Brian Slattery 11 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Musical Juices Squeezed At Sweet Fest Sweet Juice Festival 1 Awbury Rd. Philadelphia July 6, 202 Deadline Poet LindoYes checked out the Sweet Juice Fest in Germantown last weekend, featuring bands like Noun, Sam Rise, Honeychile, Lindo Yes 9 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Jazz Sax Floats Like A Feather, Slams Like Thunder Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz Featuring the Billy Harper Quintet Bushnell Park Hartford July 8, 2024 Monday Night Jazz is an institution in Hartford and beyond. It’s even been Jamil Ragland 9 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven “Apology From Hades”: Three Bands Make Sunday Sweeter Sunday nights find most people in the throes of anticipation of the week ahead, often lamenting the freedom of the weekend that they are leaving behind. Last night at Best Karen Ponzio 8 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
LA I Had the Time of My Afterlife WENZDAY’S PARTY Boardner’s Los Angeles Every Wednesday Los Angeles is goth the way apple pie is American. From the Old Hollywood fashions that influenced the modern goth aesthetic Brittany Menjivar 7 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Pharcyde: Vintage Vibes on the East Cyde The Pharcyde HiiiWAV Fest 2781 Telegraph Ave. June 8, 2024 Fred Noland 3 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Electric Jazz For Lunch David Lechuga AMP/Oakland Central Lunch and Listen Latham Square 1500 Broadway Ave. Oakland June 20, 2024 Intermittent sunshine broke through, illuminating four men in varying states of dress for Stacey Peters 2 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia “Gifted” Schools Crowd On Hip-Hop The School of the Gifted World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut St. Philadelphia June 25, 2024 The School of the Gifted — a Philly-based hip hop troupe composed of eight members — performed Lindo Yes 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Salsa & Afropop Find Unity In Rhythm At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice, Brian Slattery 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa For The East, By The East Face The East Lil Brown’s Bar Tulsa June 18 – 19, 2024 Everybody thinks of the north side when they think about Tulsa hip-hop. But it’s a little known Ryan Anderson 30 Jun 2024 · 4 min read