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Feb 24, 2025 12:55 pm
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Allie Burnet.
Midway through her set with her band, the Proven Winners, Allie Burnet asked to do one song by herself. In a break from her original material, she launched into a cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds,” a 1990 song about police brutality that has aged all too well.
To give the song a final twist, Burnet changed one line. In 1990, O’Connor sang, “These are dangerous days / to say what you feel is to dig your own grave.” Burnet altered the second half of that line: “To be who you are is to stand in your grave.”
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Jisu Sheen |
Feb 24, 2025 10:03 am
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LÉA THE LEOX with guitarist Graham Bhuyan.
When asked to describe how he felt about the set he played at Hamden’s Space Ballroom Saturday night, LÉATHELEOX’s guitarist, Graham Bhuyan, smiled and said, “It kind of felt like hugging your favorite color.” An up-and-coming soul, pop, and R&B act out of LA, LÉATHELEOX and Bhuyan wasted no time stealing hearts on Hamden soil. It’s safe to say whatever the color was, it hugged back hard.
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Chris Randall |
Feb 17, 2025 10:21 am
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Guitarist and composer Hiroya Tsukamoto played an amazing show at Fair Haven Furniture, turning the cozy, intimately-lit space into a personal mini-concert hall. His mix of detailed fingerpicking and heartfelt storytelling made for a captivating night, with every note filling the unique setting with warmth and emotion.
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Jisu Sheen |
Feb 14, 2025 12:40 pm
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I-SHEA on the Conga, Seny Camara on Jembe, and Douglas Wilson III on guitar.
“The telepathy up here is crazy.”
Jocelyn Pleasant, leader of Connecticut’s well-loved Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe, might have been talking about communication between band members, but she also set the stage for an intimate connection between the band and the audience at a performance Thursday night at NXTHVN in Dixwell.
Killer Kin, Intercourse, Dissolve, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Space Ballroom Hamden Feb. 9, 2025
On Super Bowl Sunday, thousands of viewers across the United States tuned in to Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans to share the wonder and excitement of the biggest sports evening of the year.
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Adam Matlock |
Feb 10, 2025 12:09 pm
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Music’s ability to offer hope or resilience, to soothe or to bolster, is often a feature of the conversation around public performance of classical music. In Woolsey Hall on Sunday afternoon, washed entirely in natural light, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra amplified that message.
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Leo Slattery |
Feb 6, 2025 2:31 pm
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Rachel Goswell of Slowdive at CSMH.
Slowdive College Street Music Hall New Haven Feb. 4, 2025
There was a slow, two-minute build. The drums began to accelerate and subdivide. The bass switched its pattern, following the drums’ rhythm. The sung melody soared over it all, an angelic wordless wail. Other lines moved in and out, from guitars and electronics, somehow both floating and gathering energy. The lights around the crowd and stage slowly multiplied and became more colorful.
Finally, it erupted. The lights started flashing, impossibly fast. The music consumed itself, becoming an onslaught of noise that pummeled bobbing heads and waving arms in the audience. All the while, the line of musicians at the front of the stage — Slowdive members Rachel Goswell (vocal, guitar, synth), Neil Halstead (vocal, guitar), Christian Savill (guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), and Simon Scott (drums) — were motionless, staring out at the crowd or down at the row of pedals and flashing lights by their feet.
Edward Beverly (above) and Killian Dobroth (below) performing Thursday night at Musical Intervention Studios.
“You gotta be who you are,” Edward Beverly sang Thursday night in an alcove retail space beneath the suspended concrete planet known as the Temple Street Garage, “because that’s who you are.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 30, 2025 10:28 am
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Chris Brunetti of Trench CT.
Rage found an outlet in voices and beats as three Connecticut bands — Remedies, Trench CT, and Psycho Brat — took to the stage at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night. With newspaper headlines full of political tension, the bands’ sets of hardcore and punk made a place for release.
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Mickey Mercier |
Jan 27, 2025 1:30 pm
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From an Askew album cover.
Ed Askew, a Yale-educated painter who achieved wider renown as a singer-songwriter, died in New York City on Jan. 4 at age 84. The venerable music publication NME described him as a “psychedelic folk musician.” People magazine called him a cult figure.
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Etai Smotrich-Barr |
Jan 27, 2025 10:46 am
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Cécile McLorin Salvant Yale Schwarzman Center New Haven Jan. 25, 2025
Cécile McLorin Salvant, perhaps the jazz vocalist of the last decade, performed in New Haven Saturday in what she described as an evening of “pure fantasy.”
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Chris Randall |
Jan 24, 2025 11:09 am
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Destroy Lonely & lil88 Toad’s Place New Haven Jan. 24, 2025
Atlanta rapper Destroy Lonely stood elevated on the Toad’s stage Thursday night, illuminated by dramatic beams of light that cut through the haze, creating a cinematic atmosphere. From the audience, the experience was an all-encompassing sensory overload — the pounding bass, the vivid flashes of light, and the unrelenting energy of the crowd.
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Jamil Ragland |
Jan 24, 2025 7:00 am
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Ali Kat and Gene Donaldson perform at the Old State House Food Court.
Ali Kat feat. Gene Donaldson Old State House Food Court Hartford Jan. 22, 2025
The word that I would use to describe Ali Kat’s musical style is “soothing.” I don’t mean that it’s easy listening; she brought a level of intensity to “Midnight Rider” by the Allman Brothers Band with her gravelly voice, transforming the usually upbeat road song into a more contemplative reflection on the surprisingly dour lyrics.
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Etai Smotrich-Barr |
Jan 20, 2025 9:31 am
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Eneji Alunbe and Dyland Rowland performing at Three Sheets.
The Clutchtet Three Sheets Jan. 17, 2025
Elm Street was awash Friday night in the warm sounds of “The Clutchtet,” a jazz piano trio that is a semi-regular feature of the bandstand at Three Sheets.
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Jamil Ragland |
Jan 17, 2025 8:00 am
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Brandt Taylor performs at the Old State House Food Court as part of the Winter Blues concert series
Brandt Taylor Connecticut Old State House Food Court Hartford Jan. 16, 2025
The blues is a fascinating art form, because its conventions point to suffering and pain; it is called the “blues,” after all. But the individual styles of the artists who perform it draw out different emotions for the audience. While listening to Brandt Taylor, a regular on the state blues circuit, performing at the The Winter Blues series at the Connecticut Old State House Food Court, I felt a sense of longing in his music that gave the requisite bluesy emotional anchor, but with joyful and bright singing.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jan 13, 2025 12:46 pm
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Wes Lewis, composer of "Dimensionality Reduction," performing Saturday night at Jazzy's.
High up the neck, by the body of the bass, there was nowhere left to go. The notes rose with the tension until they couldn’t go any higher, until a growling sax came to take it away.
