New Haven Waxahatchee Rises Waxahatchee Toad’s Place New Haven April 25, 2024 “I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.” It was a refrain I’d heard maybe Dereen Shirnekhi 26 Apr 2024 · 1 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
New Haven Artists Create Connection Amid Struggle “Observe,” Omola Studio’s second installment of APRiL (Artists Prospering Really is Limitless), features works by De, Kulimushi Barongozi, Kaelynne Hernandez, Miguel Mendoza, and Rex Morris. The first iteration happened Brian Slattery 22 Apr 2024 · 1 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
New Haven Split Coils Grinds The Hookah Lounge After a day of driving heavy machinery, Joe Ballaro plugged in his bass, and the show began. “We are lost and a long way from found,” sang J. Russell, lead Dereen Shirnekhi 18 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Charlie Widmer Finds A Need For“Love” Charlie Widmer didn’t expect people to want to hear “What Do I Need With Love?” Now it’s the first of his songs some people will ever hear. Paul Bass 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Finds Holiness In The Ruins It’s the shape of an ancient Middle Eastern cityscape, verandahs and towers, arched doorways and windows like peeping eyes. But it’s not anywhere near the Middle East; it’ Brian Slattery 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Orange Street Goes To Hell In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too. Hell Fairy is made Dereen Shirnekhi 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ghost Funk Orchestra, Marco Benevento Achieve Liftoff In front of a packed house that was ready to have fun, two touring acts — the New York City-based Ghost Funk Orchestra and the Woodstock, N.Y.-based Marco Benevento Brian Slattery 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Deadpan Yoga La Práctica (The Practice) — the latest from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman — is the story of a yoga instructor’s interactions with students old and new as he maneuvers his Karen Ponzio 9 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven From Cameroon, With Futuristic Hope A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night featured a stunning set of music from Blick Bassy. Born in Cameroon and now living in France, the 50-year-old Bassy has Brian Slattery 8 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Cellist Doesn’t Miss A Beat Johnathan Moore was ready to add a layer of sound. He reached for the Boss RC 600 loop station pedal and … nothing. Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He Paul Bass 5 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Local” Lunch At IKEA After a single bite, I realized I had ordered the wrong entree at IKEA. The “veggie balls” were a blank slate: a mush of chickpeas, carrots, peppers, and other veggies Laura Glesby 5 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave The jury is still out on whether American culture, or the music industry, can create another superstar, like Michael Jackson or Prince, like Madonna or Bruce Springsteen. Maybe Beyoncé, now Brian Slattery 4 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Songwriter Series Comes To Cafe Nine Pete Greco had a series of requests for the audience at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night. Did anyone know how to tune a guitar? Did anyone have any tattoos? The Brian Slattery 3 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Earth Is Breaking Beautifully Susan Hoffman Fishman’s painting seems at first to be an abstract, full of brilliant colors and bold lines. Soon, though, one can see how it’s derived from natural Brian Slattery 2 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven MJ Bones Lives, Unplugged “If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.” Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on Paul Bass 29 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Kids Ring In iPeabody Era The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones. Nora Grace-Flood 27 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
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