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Karen Ponzio
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Oct 2, 2024 12:00 pm
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The Psychedelic Furs: Still making music that's fun, sexy, and a bit dangerous.
October opened with a one-two punch as the dreamy double bill of the Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain turned College Street Music Hall into a post-punk version of heaven.
The two lyrically and sonically charged bands have more than their legendary status in common: both were started by and continue to be anchored by brothers, both have been making music for over 40 years, and both have a unique sound that has been highly influential but can never be confused with anyone else.
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Brian Slattery
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Sep 30, 2024 12:52 pm
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Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there.“I cannot imagine my life without it,” he said, from his collaborations with Anthony Braxton to his numerous performances there with other groups. On Friday, however, he was there with UK-based pianist Alexander Hawkins, as part of the Crown Street bar- recording studio-performance space’s fall jazz series, running now into December.
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Ryan Anderson
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Sep 27, 2024 1:03 pm
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Written Quincey at LowDown
Written Quincey &GÜDPPL LowDown Tulsa Sept. 21, 2024
The Sanctuary — a dimly lit Chicago nightclub where jazz, blues, and poetry collided — was a pivotal place in the movie Love Jones, where a young poet named Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) attempts to woo Nina Mosley (Nia Long), an aspiring photographer. Tulsa has its own version of The Sanctuary at LowDown, where Written Quincey (still young) recently took the stage as a teacher, a poet, and a rapper, in front of a crowd that loves jass. (I’ll explain what that means in a minute.)
The Dropkick Murphys The Met 858 N. Broad St. Philadelphia Sept. 25, 2024
The Dropkick Murphys, a Celtic punk group from Boston, played Philly Wednesday night alongside Dublin acoustic crew The Scratch and California metal band PennyWise. The Dropkick Murphys were a part of the soundtrack of my Irish-Catholic childhood. The chance to see them live felt like an invitation to a fucked-up family reunion. I ended up leaving the function not feeling like speaking to anybody, until I remembered I had to write a review for this very site.
In the spirit of what I saw, I decided to post the review as a song about re-encountering a band playing past its heyday. The working title is “Still Kickin’.” Play the Celtic instrumentals above — courtesy of the Dropkick Murphys — to set the beat before you read.
I shipped up to central Philly To reunite with Sailor Peg While Boston’s Dropkick Murphys Tour along the East Coast leg
I could’ve gotten tickets To Charli XCX She was playing at Wells Fargo But the Murphys took the Met
The Wallflowers Tulsa Theater Tulsa Sept. 22, 2024
I don’t think “ordinary” is pejorative. Without at least some artists finding contentment as part of a greater tradition, what would happen to jazz or ballet or opera? The extraordinariness of these art forms stems from constant contact with their deep and familiar roots. What about rock ‘n’ roll as we know it?
The Bargain Feat. Riley Cotton and Still Rivers Audio Feed Old State House Food Court Hartford Sept. 25, 2024
Hartford’s Audio Feed concert series moved back indoors this week with The Bargain performing at the Old State House Food Court. And it truly was a bargain, because the gathered audience got not one, but three different performers throughout the hour-long set.
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Emily Cohen
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Sep 25, 2024 10:39 am
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XPoNential Music Festival Wiggins Waterfront Park 2 Riverside Dr. Camden, New Jersey Sept. 22, 2024
University of Pennsylvania’s radio station WXPN celebrated the 30th year of their fall music showcase — the Xponential Music Festival — last weekend. I went to one of the festival’s three jam-packed days and realized why the show is so long-lived: Who wouldn’t want to lay on a blanket all day long listening to string-heavy folk rock in perfect fall weather?
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Ryan Anderson
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Sep 23, 2024 11:46 am
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Hip Hop 918 Guthrie Green Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024
It’s been 23 years since Ludacris and the late Nate Dogg dropped their hit single “Area Codes.” 918 wasn’t mentioned. At that time Tulsa had an unnoticed musical footprint. Fast forward to today, when Tulsa has its own hip-hop festival called Hip Hop 918, which launched in 2018 to celebrate the elements of the genre and pay homage to some of the best to ever do it.
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Brian Slattery
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Sep 23, 2024 11:17 am
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Deerlady — a songwriting project of Abrego and Obomsawin, which started its tour in August in New Mexico and wound its way here in New Haven this past weekend — established itself within its first song as a band that layered complexity into what sounded first like deceptively straightforward music.
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Yvonne Hazelton
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Sep 20, 2024 11:24 am
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Composer Valerie Coleman and pianist Sean Chen
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Coleman, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024
I first heard the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra at the final concert of their 2023 – 2024 season, where they knocked the Mahler Fifth out of the park, surprising this Tulsa newcomer with their power, vivacity and nuance.
Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia.
Trouble in my soul I know it’s wrong But it’s feeling so good …
Did Bill Monroe originally sing this? Was it a gospel number repurposed for bluegrass barn dances? It sounded as though it leaped from an old vinyl 78, minus the scratches.
Got a bad desire And it’s coming strong Been trying to chase this feeling away for so long
Whatever it was, Scelza was angel wrestling.
Take away my sorrow Wash it in water I need healing in my soul …
Scelzo fiddled and sang the song Thursday during an appearance on the WNHHFM’s tiniest-of-all-tiny desks“Acoustic Thursday @Studio 51” program.
