Philadelphia Julia’s War Fest Plays Hooky Hooky at Julia’s War Fest Ukie Club 847 N. Franklin St. Philadelphia May 19, 2024 Two-person indie electronica band Hooky adapted their lo-fi recorded tracks for live listening Saturday Nora Grace-Flood 21 May 2024 · 5 min read
LA Squawking, As A Symptom THE STRINGS/KEYS REINCIDENCE: A RESIDENCY WITH JOANNA NEWSOM The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever May 15 – 19 + May 26 – 27, 2024 The first sound I heard on Thursday night Dandi Meng 21 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland The Sound Of Hearts On A Gravel Road Waxahatchee The Fox Theater 2807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland May 18, 2024 To hear Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee wallop a crowd with her full-bodied wail of a voice and her plaintive, Stacey Peters 21 May 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven This Is How To Rock A Monday New Haven-based artist Michael Miglietta has a visual style that leans into the surreal and the cosmic, creating dizzying, shape-shifting images with bold linework and vivid color. Under the moniker Brian Slattery 21 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Pop Dance Party For The Proletariat Belle and Sebastian The Fox Theater 1807 Telegraph Ave. Oakland May 16, 2024 In the world of Scottish indie pop, Belle and Sebastian surely must be the hardest working band Stacey Peters 21 May 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa My Dating Life Is Going Great, In Part Thanks To Classical Music In Tulsa Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Mahler’s Fifth Tulsa Performing Arts Center May 11, 2024 Since I moved to Tulsa last year, I’ve paired up with one of this city’s Yvonne Hazelton 19 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Travelers Come Out At Night — & Hit the Right Note Over The Rainbow: A Free Concert Presented by the Travelers Chorale Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford May 16, 2024 Life is full of surprises, and I experienced an excellent Jamil Ragland 17 May 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Groundwaves: Underground Music’s Solution To Artist Development Groundwaves Skyline Mansion Tulsa May 9, 2024 The music industry is in shambles. Music labels across the nation are either closing up shop or consolidating departments in an effort to Ryan Anderson 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Love n’Co Brings The Love In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands Dereen Shirnekhi 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “What, You Don’t Like Keyboards?” Fantastic Negrito & Friends Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland May 10, 2024 Seeing Fantastic Negrito & Friends at the latest Friday night event at Oakland Museum of Stacey Peters 15 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Dave Cope Crafts A “Hidden World” Dave Cope and the Sass Dawson St. Pub 100 Dawson St. Philadelphia May 10, 2024 Shadows of cigarette smoke cha-cha’d alongside smooth-moving middle-agers on the makeshift dance floor of Nora Grace-Flood 14 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford “The Hartford Sound” Is A Real Thing Jazz 201: Unsung Legends and the Hartford Jazz Scene Hartford Public Library Hartford May 13, 2024 There’s a special sound that only jazz musicians trained in Hartford can perform. Jamil Ragland 14 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Punk’s Promise PUNKCON 3 California State University Fullerton, Cal. May 4, 2024 It’s been a landmark week for US universities dusting off their suppression manuals and calling for armed backup to A.J. Urquidi 12 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Moms In Bands, Outnumbered By Dads In Bands, Chase Rockstar Dreams Grace Yukich picked up her first acoustic guitar in high school, in Opelika, Alabama, in the mid 1990s. Women like Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love ruled the burgeoning alt-rock music Marisa Torrieri Bloom 10 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Talking To God In A Tulsa Jazz Club The John Hanrahan Quartet Performs “A Love Supreme” LowDown May 4, 2024 The liner notes to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme are sublime. Coltrane describes his album as a Z.B. Reeves 10 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia “Attack Dog” Delivers Puppy Love Attack Dog PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia May 2, 2024 Attack Dog ambushed an avant-garde audience inside PhilaMOCA — not with snarling words or slobbery chops, but with catchy riffs Nora Grace-Flood 7 May 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia Live Band Ups The Karaoke Game Live Band Karaoke Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia May 4, 2024 Backed by a guitarist, bassist, drummer and a harmonizing hostess, the pony-tailed sequined woman who had introduced Nora Grace-Flood 6 May 2024 · 5 min read