Issue Articles — Alt NO
Enjoying Depression
While here in purgatory, a.k.a. Houston, Texas, sleeping on strange futons, waiting to be let back into New Orleans, I’ve had the chance to really enjoy depression. And depression sometimes […]
Crystallizing Jhelisa
While this “alternative music” exists mainly to expose fops to truly original music—as opposed to New Orleans’ glut of blueprint-reading throwbacks—there are also cases where progressive-minded fans might need to […]
No-Man-Band
One-man-bands have always really impressed me. Until I met a man with no band: IMAGINE “the” BAND. The name perfectly describes the concept: wearing a too-tight wetsuit and headphones with […]
Acid & Other Drugs
I am now officially in cahoots. The Noizefest I wrote about for the Jazz Fest issue ended up taking place in my backyard in the Bywater, after Jay “MC Trachiotomy” […]
Cum On Feel the Noise
I’ve always jokingly typed “Jazz(zzz)fest.” But as my girlfriend commented while reading this year’s line-up, “Dave Matthews and Nelly? They should just go ahead and call it DouchebagFest.” Or Clear […]
Passing Grades
A while ago I wrote a book about my bad experience teaching in a New Orleans public school. I taught for only one semester and it was just too much, […]
MC Trachiotomy’s Love Thing
Alt NO: MC Trachiotomy’s Love Thing
Alt NO: The Return of Awful Art
Behind his spectacles, thick beard, Saints cap and Bonnaroo t-shirt with the sleeves cut out, 49-year-old Ray Bong doesn’t look like much of an electronic music wizard. But as the founding and torch-bearing member of ’80s-born abstract music collective the Bongoloids, Bong has, in his words, “earned [his] psychedelic guru patch.”
