Monthly Archives: February 2023

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Work.shop hosted a special night with Wet Meadows and Puerto Rican puppetry and art collective Poncili Creación on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Immaterial Possession improvised a soundtrack for the performance.

Later that night, we caught new local punk band Beer Piss and Mexico City duo Cardiel at Flicker Theatre & Bar.

Returning to Flicker on Thursday, Feb. 23, we caught Basically Nancy (Savannah), Tits Dick Ass (New York) and Nihilist Cheerleader.

Sleazy Cheetah (Atlanta), Wyld Staleyz and Rosie & The Ratdogs performed at Southern Brewing Co. on Friday, Feb. 24 as part of Aubrey Entertainment’s RPM Series.

On Saturday, Feb. 25, The Rishis and Telemarket played a birthday party.

That evening at Tif Sigfrids, John Fernandes, Laura Camacho and Davy Gibbs performed as a trio during an opening reception for a new art exhibition.

Later on at Ciné, Nix the Scientist and SLINK played.

And at Hendershot’s that night, Shane Parish and Katherine Young & Jacob Wick took the stage.

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March 4 @ Park City Music Hall
2926 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport
9 p.m.

Coming from Oyster Bay, Long Island, Tauk have been one of the premier bands in the instrumental rock fusion realm for well over a decade. These days they’ve been collaborating with vocalist Kanika Moore for a project that’s being called “Tauk Moore” and this upcoming show will be part of a tour of the East Coast. New York-City-based groove masters Stolen Gin will be starting the night off.

March 10 @ Café Nine
250 State Street, New Haven
9 p.m.

As part of a show that’s being presented by the syndicated radio show “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” that’s hosted by Steven Van Zandt from the E Street Band, Philadelphia-based Soraia will be bringing their emphatic hard rock sound. Last October, they released their latest album Bloom on Van Zandt’s label Wicked Cool Records and their live performances have been getting them a buzz among music fans. Stockholm garage rock act Stupidity and The Idiot Kids from Detroit are going to be rounding out the bill for the evening.

March 11 @ College Street Music Hall
238 College Street, New Haven
8 p.m.

The Talking Heads are one of the most acclaimed and influential new wave bands in music history and their fourth album Remain In Light, which came out in 1980, is one of the many gems of their extensive discography. In celebration of the album and the rest of the band’s material, keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison will be leading an all-star backing band with King Crimson lead singer and guitarist Adrian Belew. Expect stellar renditions of killer tracks including “Once In A Lifetime”, “Psycho Killer” and “Take Me To The River” with Cool Cool Cool, a side project of the Brooklyn funk band Turkuaz, kicking off the festivities.

March 14 @ Ridgefield Playhouse
80 East Ridge Road, Ridgefield
7:30 p.m.

As part of their tour in support of their latest album Misadventures of Doomscroller that came out last July, Los Angeles folk-rock act Dawes will be taking the stage. The quartet of vocalist and guitarist Taylor Goldsmith, his brother Griffin on drums, bassist Wylie Gelber and keyboardist Lee Pardini are making their return to the Ridgefield Playhouse after a sold out show there in 2019. Along with the show, there will be a complimentary non-alcoholic beer tasting courtesy of Athletic Brewing Co. in the lobby and attendees are invited to grab dinner at Gallo, at 5 Grove Street, Ridgefield and where they will receive a complimentary bottle of wine with their meal when they present their tickets.

March 31 @ Toad’s Place
300 York Street, New Haven
7 p.m.

Rochester, NY indie rockers Joywave have a knack for including electronic elements into their sound and making people dance due to this inclusion. This is what people can expect when they see this band perform at one of the most legendary music venues in all of New England. Canadian alt-pop band Dizzy and Youtube pop artist Elliot Lee will be opening up the show.

Producers and DJs suddenly began tweeting and sharing about nominations for the annual EDM Awards, scheduled to reveal their winners in Miami this year during Miami Music Week at the Fontainebleau Pool. The awards event features a staggering 38 categories to vote in, most of them multiple choice, with three categories made for write-in votes — Industry Achievement, Legend Award, and Icon Award.

Like the DJ Mag Top 100, these awards are fan-powered, allowing artists with larger followings to dominate the voting pool with a tweet or a story. Most of the categories offer a fixed pool of choices, however, unlike the DJ Mag Top 100. Determined by whom? Their website doesn’t say. Nor does it have any links to social media, though if you look hard enough, they do have an Instagram page.

After a bit more digging, the Awards appear to be executive produced and hosted by Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton, a Hall of Fame radio host, whose resumé includes Z100 New York, KIISFM Los Angeles & KBIG/MYFM Los Angeles. He also executive produced and hosted a syndicated show called Remix Top 30 from 2009-2021. He is currently employed at 103.5 KTU as part of the iHeartMedia family.

Previous winners of the Awards include Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Arty, Cash Cash, Cedric Gervais, Cheat Codes, David Guetta, Diplo, Galantis, Lodato, Marshmello, Martin Garrix, MK, Skrillex, Slushii, Steve Aoki, The Chainsmokers, as noted in a press release.

When visiting the website to vote, you will click on individual categories, labeled only by a bold header atop a generic box that reuses the same graphic, that lead to a separate tab to vote on a pre-selected group of nominees. Some of the categories (Remix of the Year, Best Performance Arena / Festival, Best Radio Show) appear to require an email address to vote, for no disclosed reason.

Some categories also offer an interesting choice of nominees, with Tale Of Us nominated in “Best New Artist” despite being active since 2009. Overall, the choices available make sense, but in the end, fans are still limited to who they can vote for.

If you have strong opinions about any of the categories available, you can head here to cast your vote. The Awards will apparently be live streamed from Miami, with instructions on where and when to watch still pending.