Blogs
The Old Boys’ Network
This year’s Voodoo Experience may have decided to surf the youth wave, but my desk is overrun with CDs by the Old Boys’ Network. As I’ve said before, Grinderman 2 […]
Characters Are for Broadway
Much has been made of the effect of cocaine on David Bowie’s Station to Station, and how it led to a paranoid, schizophrenic masterpiece. I think it did something far […]
Like Team, Like Fan
Outside of the Superdome Sunday, a couple of guys were handing out CDs, by – I discovered reading the sharpie on the home-burned disc – Buttaboy. Saint’s Ready 2 Rumble […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
With Voodoo coming up, I took a quiet-ish weekend. The highs: – Listening to Grinderman 2. Thankfully, Nick Cave refuses to grow old gracefully and still wants to make a […]
A Good Marc Bolan to You, Sir
During this year’s Ponderosa Stomp conference, Gloria (“Tainted Love”) Jones told interviewer Ann Powers that she had opened a music school in Africa in the name of Marc Bolan, her […]
Bill Hicks Day
Today, the three-CD/one-DVD/one download card Bill Hicks: The Essential Collection (Rykodisc) showed up on my desk and as I type, he’s describing Satan having his way with Jay Leno, the […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Otis Taylor’s version of “Hey Joe” during the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday. Don Vappie played banjo with Taylor throughout the set and played a […]
Show Your Work at Jazz Fest
UPDATED Early birds, make some coffee. Tonight at midnight, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell will start taking applications from those who wish to show in […]
“Spill” Litters NOMA
Updated Last night, Generic Art Solutions—Matt Vis and Tony Campbell—made a mess at NOMA. The Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art hosted “Spill,” a performance art piece […]
The House That Lenny Lived In
LuxuryHousesForSale.com is reporting that Lenny Kravitz has put his New Orleans home on the market. If you’ve got three-quarters of a mil laying around, you could move into his French […]
