Issue Articles
Holy Trinity: Susan Spicer
Since beginning her cooking career as an apprentice to Chef Daniel Bonnot at the Louis XVI Restaurant in 1979, Susan Spicer has emerged as one of New Orleans’ most renowned […]
Joe Krown
Raised in Westbury, Long Island, New York, keyboardist Joe Krown commenced playing piano as a child. In college at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Krown discovered the […]
Tim Laughlin: Clarinet Crusader
According to his friend and frequent collaborator, pianist Tom McDermott, “Tim’s sound makes a lot of other clarinetists sound like they’re playing kazoos.” Yet another unique aspect of Tim Laughlin’s […]
The Happy Talk Band, Total Death Benefit (Independent)
Although I was handed a copy of this CD to review in late January of this year, I didn’t realize until I did a bit of Internet research and found […]
Walls Of Jericho, All Hail The Dead (Trustkill)
I’ve been listening to a lot of hardcore music lately and what most of it has in common is relentlessness and male vocalists who sound extremely pissed off that their […]
Arthur Hardy
Appearing In New Orleans: Nightly during Carnival, live from the parade routes on WDSU-TV and WWL radio. There is no “official spokesperson” for Mardi Gras, the planet’s largest […]
The Soul Rebels, Rebelution (Barnburner)
For those comrades expecting a Marxist brass band musically espousing the teachings of H. Rap Brown, Huey P. Newton and Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, accompanied by fleshy dancers in camouflage […]