On Oct. 14, the Smith radio station WOZQ welcomed the greater Five College community to dance along to the musical stylings of Emma Blue Jeans…
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Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”
From their two-bedroom house in Western Massachusetts, darkwave band Boy Harsher pushes the boundaries of experimental music. The Florence-based duo, Jae Matthews and Augustus “Gus”…
Lincoln Park, KORN, and Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson are three singers that diners at Cutter Ziskind (or Cutter Z as nicknamed by students) might hear…
You can listen to their music on Spotify through your earbuds or on a speaker, but to be face to face with Matthews, dancing in unison, is clearly how this music is meant to be heard.
Queuing in front of the box office, the audience was restless. All felt that the concert was a sign of revitalization.
The WOZQ radio DJs have an active and inviting arrangement of shows for this semester, and being in person has helped them thrive and be…
This week, I had the privilege of attending three vastly different live performances in Northampton.
Before the Pearl Street Nightclub doors opened at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers huddled under awnings for shelter from the rain. The suboptimal weather conditions did nothing to hamper the excitement. In the next hour before the live performance began, there were plenty of people crowding into the intimate venue and singing along to pre-show music.
“I’ve gotta break up sincerity with humor every now and again,” said Julien Baker after making her audience laugh and moments before launching into her devastating song “Sprained Ankle” at a sold-out but intimate show at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, on tour for her 2021 album “Little Oblivions.”