Ed Tankus is known as a “smoothie”—not for his engaging interpersonal style, but rather his musical tastes. His passion for smooth jazz is the foundation of Blue Plate Radio, the Hamden (more…)
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A-Sides
Plug in and turn up the amps. Here, vaguely chronologically, are the top 20 bands who shaped the sound of New Haven and have maintained the city’s image as the most creative original-music scene in Connecticut. (more…)
House of Wax
Never more the record store—not in New Haven, anyway. But Hamden’s Replay Records, about six miles up Whitney Avenue, keeps resetting its needle six days a week, with a fondness for grooved-vinyl 33s and 45s and the (more…)
Choose Your Own Adventure
The pundit class’s longstanding doom-and-gloom take on hard-copy books has always seemed more about stock market outlooks and missed revenue projections than about real consumer demand. The rest of (more…)
Label Maker
New Haven resident Carlos Wells decided long ago to help take music back to its vinyl roots. In 2005, inspired by the sonic clarity and heft of his analog record collection, Wells created the one-man, mostly vinyl-producing music label (more…)
Mining Cole
He was the top. He was delightful, delicious, de-lovely. Night and day, he was the one. And he was all that right here in New Haven for a little while in the 1910s. New Haven has chosen an interesting year in which to honor songwriter and bon vivant Cole Porter. It’s not the centennial of […]
Strumming Along
“It seems flippant when I say it,” Shawn Persinger says, smiling. “But when people ask what I do, I say ‘I play guitar.’” Persinger has had several of his own bands, including the long-running acoustic duo Prester John (with mandolinist David Miller) and the acclaimed experimental rock outfit Boud Deun, which disbanded in 1998. He […]
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 more recent vintage, New Haven-born and -bred, who found fame on the […]
Catch the Waves
From his small office in the basement of Maxcy Hall at the University of New Haven, Bryan Lane is performing his duties as General Manager of WNHU. Being in charge of a radio station sounds like a pretty cool gig, especially to those who enjoy discovering the less commercial music often favored by college radio. […]
Joined at the Hip Hop
Hashim Allah saw New Haven’s history of Hip Hop as it happened. Allah did some DJ-ing, rapped a bit, wrote rhymes for others. But mostly he was just around. “I (more…)
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