Issue Articles
The Drummer’s Roots
Tragedies have a way of highlighting the heroes in our midst, and if ever there was a tragedy, Katrina was it. Ever since the levees broke, people have been stepping […]
Girls on Film
Rik Slave moves like a marionette. The lead singer for Rock City Morgue is onstage at One Eyed Jacks dancing like his arms and legs are on separate strings from […]
Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne
It takes a rare talent to make a hit out of a song that tells the listener “everyone you know / will die,” but “Do You Realize” changed the […]
Harry Connick, Jr., Your Songs (Columbia)
I assume that the title—Your Songs—is a reference to standards, songs that belong to all of us. On his new album, Harry Connick, Jr. visits the classic songbook, reaching as […]
Betty Davis, Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic)
It’s desire. On the album Betty Davis recorded in 1976 at Studio in the Woods in Bogalusa, the title may ask if it’s love or desire, but she makes it […]
Voodoo 2009: The Noisician Coalition Brings the Noise
Mattvaughan Black is fiddling around. He’s sitting outside of Cafe Rose Nicaud, and while telling stories of his adventures as Mr. the Turk in the New Orleans Bingo! Show, he […]
Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band, Devaloka (Notone)
A yoga soundtrack is a very specialized thing, but that’s what Devaloka is. And as far as I—a non-yoga person—can tell, it’s a good one. It drones in the hypnotic […]
Jenny Brooks, Down in the Bayou (Independent)
Jenny Brooks breaks my heart. She makes a form of country that the marketplace doesn’t seem to have any place for these days, and it’s worse for it. She’s so […]
Alec Ounsworth, Mo Beauty (Anti-)
In “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (for New Orleans)” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth is reluctant to assert too great a role for himself in New Orleans’ drama. In […]
Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce, Coldwater (Independent)
Coldwater documents where Shannon McNally has been since Katrina—namely, settling down in Mississippi, starting a family and finding a stable band. For the occasion, she recut “Bolder Than Paradise” not […]
