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“Scaryoke” Haunts A New Hartford Haunt

by | Oct 27, 2024 2:20 pm | Comments (0)

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Halloween Karaoke Party
Sunberry Cafe and Catering
Hartford
Oct. 25, 2024

Sunberry is one of several newer restaurants and bars on Pratt Street. part of a revitalization of the red brick road in the center of Hartford. It hosted a special Halloween Karaoke Party to kick off a week-long celebration of the spooky holiday.

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Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

by | Oct 18, 2024 3:58 pm | Comments (0)

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Aaron Sawyer, Big City, and Shyheim Nwadiei at Rapper's Delight.

Rapper’s Delight
Living Arts of Tulsa
Tulsa
October 12, 2024

Go big or go home. That’s the sentiment I always get watching an Aaron Sawyer performance. The emcee, battle rapper, and mental health advocate has performed on many Tulsa stages throughout his career, all while helping to build platforms and cultivate relationships within Tulsa hip-hop. This time the platform was his own: he called it Rapper’s Delight, which is also the name of one of the most famous songs in hip-hop, so you can imagine the high bar Sawyer set himself to clear. 

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Little Weirdos Wait To Die

by | Oct 9, 2024 10:32 am | Comments (0)

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MITSKI with SHARON VAN ETTEN
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles
September 28, 2024

“I feel like performing live is practice for living and dying,” Mitski declares several songs into her sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl. She goes on to explain that in performance, she experiences it all: ecstasy, joy, awe. Then the lights dim, and she’s profoundly empty again. ​“I walk offstage, I have to let this go, no matter how wonderful it’s been.” This is death — or, at least, how she imagines it. ​“I’m gonna die. I don’t mean that in a violent way. You can scream all you want. Start facing it now.”

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You're Invited, If You Dare

by | Oct 7, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (0)

THE DARE
El Rey Theatre
Los Angeles
September 27, 2024

The title of the Dare’s 2024 debut album poses a question: What’s Wrong with New York? Here’s my take: they don’t know how to have fun. While Harrison Patrick Smith’s ascent to the indie sleaze throne has been remarkably frictionless — first we knew him as a Dimes Square one-hit wonder, now he’s signed to Republic with a brat shout-out and magazine features galore — responses to his reign have been mixed. Although any event with his name on the flyer will pull in a sizable crowd of party animals, some critics scoff at his sex, drugs, and rock and roll shtick, which goes heavy on the sex part. (Exhibit A: his The Sex EP, anchored by the single ​“Sex,” features cover art with fully clothed models sporting American Apparel as they simulate intercourse.)

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A Gift To End The Season

by | Oct 6, 2024 2:26 pm | Comments (0)

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Gifted Horses
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
Oct. 4, 2024

Thanks to the beautiful weather we’ve had this month, it felt like summer was going to last all year long. All good things must come to an end though, and Gifted Horses gave the last lunchtime concert performance the season. 

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Softies' Stage Return Hits Hard On Heartbreak

by | Oct 4, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (0)

The Softies, with Lightheaded, 22º Halo
PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th St.
Philadelphia
Oct. 3, 2024

“Write down that this is a bad song!” my recently heartbroken friend wept in my ear as I scrawled notes like an obsessive school girl about the pitch-perfect performance delivered by ​‘90s sad girls, The Softies.

Indie pop duo and long-time friends Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia took to the stage at PhilaMOCA Thursday night while touring their latest album, The Bed I Made. It’s the first record released by the pair after a two-decade pause in production.

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