gig

Metallica’s generations of disaffected dirtbags — this writer among them — were primed for this gig.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Staying true to its seasonal carny roots, almost all professional wrestlers are gig workers.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

But she formed her piano-bass-drums group ahead of a gig at New York’s Village Vanguard in the winter of 2024, and it has become her primary vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

To prove they’re “amazing musicians,” Woody and Matthew disguise themselves to play a coffeehouse gig.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Sounds good to me. I took this gig because I thought it was hilarious. Wish I'd thought of this in high school.”

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

So while “Goin’ Local” is technically Kaye’s first solo record, back in 1984, there was another project, the Lenny Kaye Connection, a quartet which gigged around New York City and environs.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

For 15 years, both with a band and on his own, DeBardi had gigged around Everett and Western Washington under the moniker Steel Beans in relative obscurity.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

She gigged constantly, whether as the leader of her own groups or a guest in the ensembles of the saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the vocalist Fay Victor.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

After graduation, he gigged around town, including a stint at the top-floor bar at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

Though of course they wouldn’t have been gigged.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"We cannot lose this music as we are on the way out," pleaded Diasihilua, who has already spent 50 of his 73 years on earth gigging.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

Singer Reiner was gigging as a photographer in the late 1980s, visiting film sets as part of her income.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

I couldn’t see myself hanging around Wilmington working at a 7-Eleven, gigging in a pop band that played the VEW and other seedy country joints, which is what I was doing.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride