Music
The Lena Prima Big Band, Live in Concert (Basin Street Records)
Lena Prima’s last studio album, Prima La Famiglia, was the one she was born to make. It wasn’t the first time she’d done her father Louis Prima’s music, but this […]
Faux Mac — Singer Greg Hardy unmasked himself
A longstanding Dr. John mystery was solved online just a few months ago. It concerns a strange album called Zu Zu Man, that the fly-by-night Trip label released around 1975. […]
Help Society, Gettin’ Low & Lettin’ Go (Independent)
Funny how MTV-style synth pop is sounding like roots music nowadays, nearly four decades after its heyday. The difference is that it’s possible in 2020 to make a homemade album […]
Ranking the Beatles: Jonathan Pretus is counting to number one
One effect of the pandemic is that its forced people to think seriously about the things in life that really matter. For Jonathan Pretus, the Breton Sound frontman, ex-Cowboy Mouth […]
Lafayette native Sarah Lipstate a.k.a. Noveller brings us inviting guitar soundscapes
Like many Lafayette natives, guitarist Sarah Lipstate grew up bored with the music found on commercial radio. She’s since become one of the brighter talents in alternative music, performing and […]
Wanderlust, Suicide & Renewal: Ingrid Lucia is the luckiest girl in the world
Ingrid Lucia has spent a lot of late nights listen to trains go by from her Gentilly-area window. “We have all kinds of sounds in this city—the calliope on the […]
Kid Krill, Down on Royal Street (Independent)
Some of those busking musicians really know their stuff. Kid Krill is a Royal Street regular who’s also a first-rate blues scholar: All six tracks on this EP are lost […]
Borealis Rex, Dawn ’Til Done (Drag Snake Records)
Borealis Rex’ debut EP, Cut Your Teeth, included one of my favorite tracks of 2019, “Take It Out On Me.” It’s a riff-slinging rocker with a chorus you can’t get […]
Beth Patterson collaborates with prog-rock band Yes
What do you do if you’ve just written a resonant song about life under shutdown? If you’re Beth Patterson, you call in a member of the iconic prog-rock band Yes […]
Sweet Crude, Officiel // Artificiel (Verve Forecast)
The first really grabbing moment on Sweet Crude’s sophomore album happens midway through the opening track, “COGO.” At the point where you expect an instrumental solo, front-woman Alexis Marceaux instead […]
