| Apr 18, 2024 12:19 pm | After a day of driving heavy machinery, Joe Ballaro plugged in his bass, and the show began.  ‘Split Coils Rocks The Hookah Lounge ..read more

| Apr 19, 2024 9:04 am | Sam Carlson broke a string as he tuned up his Guild D‑50 acoustic guitar to perform live on radio. But no worries — he had a backup Guild M‑20 with him as well. ‘Sam Carlson Plays Right On "Tine ..read more

| Apr 22, 2024 1:11 pm | Composer and violinist Alyssa Chetrick was taking a solo as part of her vertiginous piece, sardonically titled Equilibrium.” If some of the previous passages had offered a sense of calm, Chetrick was now going for chaos, spurring the ensemble around her to join her. Her phrasing pushed the musicians around her to dig deeper into the music she’d written, as if they were looking to break it. Would they ..read more

| Apr 4, 2024 9:10 am | 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 42 years old, and Taylor Swift, 34, are the last of their kind. But if future superstars are still possible, one of its more likely candidates — Chappell Roan — played at College Street Music Hall on Wednesday night to an ecstatic, sold-out crowd that couldn’t get enough. ‘Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave ..read more

600 loop station pedal and … nothing. Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He kept the beat going. He pivoted to a new plan — and the music played on. ‘Johnathan Moore Doesn't Miss A Beat ..read more

a 1920 film written, produced, and directed by Oscar Micheaux; it’s the oldest known surviving film with a Black director. One more bonus: both films on this evening were accompanied by live music, played by pianist The first, presented in conjunction with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, was a selection of Solomon Sir Jones Films from 1924 to 1928 that are currently a part of the library’s holdings. The second was a showing of ‘Yale Film Archive Adds Sound to Silents ..read more

| Apr 8, 2024 9:06 am | Voices filled the space of Bethesda Lutheran Church on Sunday afternoon, raised in song. But the harmonies weren’t what many may have been used to in a church; they were sharper, more angular, provoking of thought. Nor was the text from the Bible; it was a dispatch from halfway around the world, from the present day.  ‘Choir Sings The Fragility Of Refuge’ The land we tilled for generations is shrinking; salt water poisons what’s left of our fields. Many people have gone, displacement and death everywhere.”  ..read more

| Apr 8, 2024 12:45 pm | A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night headlined by Cameroonian touring artist Blick Bassy featured two younger New Haven acts who tipped their hats to those older than they were, even as they showed everyone in the room that the future of music in the Elm City is in safe hands ..read more

| Apr 11, 2024 12:36 pm | 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.  ..read more

| Apr 12, 2024 9:13 am | 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. ‘Charlie Widmer Finds A Need For "Love ..read more