New Haven The Decemberists Make it Better The Decemberists brought May to a magnificent start on Saturday night when they returned to College Street Music Hall for the fourth show of their 2024 A Peaceable Kingdom North Karen Ponzio 6 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Her Tea: The R&B Open Mic Night Brewing In Tulsa Mi Tea + R&B Mi Tea Lounge April 24, 2024 Hip-hop’s dominance on Tulsa’s airwaves and stages has inadvertently created a void for R&B lovers. Ryan Anderson 5 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Melody From Noise HELMET: LOOK LEFT TOUR with CRO-MAGS Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles April 28, 2024 On Sunday in Central Los Angeles, I parked on one of Westlake’s copious skid rows, crunching A.J. Urquidi 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Humble Hip Hop Trumpeter Packs Out The New Parish Takuya Kuroda w/ Isaiah Mostafa & DJ Wonway Posibul The New Parish 1743 San Pablo Ave. Oakland April 25, 2024 Hip hop heads will grant Takuya Kuroda street cred from Stacey Peters 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Metal Goes Mental For Meditation Savage Sisters Metal Meditation with Monks Pond PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia April 28, 2024 *Extra credit: Test your focus (or flexibility) by reading this review while listening to Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Mannequin Pussy Embraces Anger MANNEQUIN PUSSY: I GOT HEAVEN TOUR with SOUL GLO The Fonda Theater Los Angeles April 26, 2024 My millennial algorithm keeps pushing TikToks about the power of listening to nostalgic Emily VanKoughnett 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Melissa White’s Violin Sings Strings of Inspiration! Artists Collective Hartford April 30, 2024 Not to toot my own horn, but I’m not just a band geek — I was band president in high school. Jamil Ragland 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Ceschi Keeps Hope Alive Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. Nor had Paul Bass 28 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Vocal Fest Ignites East Oakland 2nd Annual East Oakland Vocal Festival Phillip Reeder Auditorium at Castlemont High School 8601 MacArthur Blvd Bldg. 300 Oakland April 24, 2024 The energy was frenetic in the spacious Phillip Stacey Peters 28 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia KulfiGirls Swim Deep At The Dolphin KulfiGirls The Dolphin Tavern 1539 S Broad St. Philadelphia April 24, 2024 Amid the fuzz rock, punk and noise music bouncing off the walls of the Dolphin Tavern Wednesday night, Nora Grace-Flood 26 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Tripping The Light Stochastic: Adventures In Ambient Noise ONE AUX: A Night Of Ambience Noise Town April 17, 2024 If you’ve never spent a Wednesday night sitting on a floor in West Tulsa listening to experimental ambient Alicia Chesser 26 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Hip Hop Artists Are No Imitation “Hello several people, rap professionals, and various cool people,” said Sketch Tha Cataclysm from the Three Sheets stage, as he and fellow New Haven hip hop stalwart Mo Niklz hosted Brian Slattery 25 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Dom Flemons Keeps Black Cowboy Music Alive His Way Dom Flemons City Winery Philadelphia April 19, 2024 “Don’t it always seem to go?” former Carolina Chocolate Drop and Black Cowboy Dom Flemons lamented into a City Winery microphone Nora Grace-Flood 21 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Herbie Hancock Can Be Your Grandpa For A Night Herbie Hancock Tulsa Performing Arts Center April 7, 2024 It was a privilege to watch Herbie Hancock cavort around a stage with a keytar. I hope you got to see Z.B. Reeves 19 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
LA Jazz Friends OUTSIDE WORLD 71 Studio Bar Los Angeles April 5, 2024 On my way to the jazz duo Outside World’s release show in Hollywood two Fridays ago, I learned from Tosten Burks 19 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Sam Carlson Plays Right On“Tine” Despite broken string, at the tiniest of tiny desks. Paul Bass 19 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Hipsters Storm Thee Stork For Cindy Lee Cindy Lee, Freak Heat Waves, Now Thee Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave. Oakland April 17th, 2024 On my way to Thee Stork Club, I could tell who was headed there Stacey Peters 18 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
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