Every day, we brush sixteenth notes across our teeth, drum rhythms into our cellphones, tap songs onto our keyboards. Though it also makes music using some strange instruments, the Yale Percussion Group is (more…)
A Good Fit
Unlike auto mechanics who run computer diagnostics, or surgeons who operate while watching a monitor, Tim Moran is practicing a craft that’s hardly changed in 200 years. (more…)
Producers
If you frequent New Haven’s Ninth Square, you’ve probably noticed it: an Orange Street space with tall, wide windows that’s very quiet unless it’s very not. (more…)
Party of Two
In 1977, Derek Holcomb and Tom Dans were playing gigs in the Hamptons’ breezy, beachy Dune Road scene. But something didn’t fit. “We had these leather jeans made, which was very flash,” Holcomb says. The pants were a dead giveaway—these kids were headed somewhere big. “Somebody said, ‘You should be playing in the city.’” So […]
To Do
The signs are everywhere. Underfoot, overhead and at eye level, too. They’re in windows and stands, on sidewalks and street poles. (more…)
Sonic Waves
This past holiday season, nearly 70 homeless people gathered at Inspired Venue—now a wedding shop called Inspired Bridal—to sing about their troubles. The show, called “Inspired People,” was organized through (more…)
Rock ’n’ Roam
If you caught even a whiff of what was coming through the airwaves in the late 1980s and early ’90s, you probably heard the soulful pop ballads of New Haven native Michael Bolton—“When a Man Loves a Woman,” “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You,” “How Can We Be Lovers.” But few know that Michael’s […]
The Short Walk
In the testosterone-driven world of hip-hop, the short walk up to the mic can be the most difficult steps for a woman to make. It’s a walk New Haven native Puma Simone makes regularly. (more…)
Record Holders
Merle’s Record Rack in Orange is a record store in more ways than you’d think. At its main counter, a woman heard her dead mother’s voice for the first time in 50 years. Another woman’s (more…)
Vocal Locals
These are the tales of two crooners. One hailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, and picked up a close pal in New Haven along the way to becoming one of the most famous singers of the 20th century. The other is a star of later vintage, New Haven-born and -bred, who found fame on the West […]