Issue Articles
Big Bites of Street Culture: Photographer Michelle Elmore’s three new books
There’s a black and white photo of Glen David Andrews, clad in a crisp suit and brass band hat, hanging in a breakfast and lunch joint called The Hummingbird in […]
Music Maker Relief Foundation gives $62,000 to Louisiana musicians
Seven months after unprecedented rainfall flooded Southeast Louisiana, musicians across the state are still struggling to get back on their feet, having lost homes, studios, instruments, gear and gigs to […]
In conversation with Paula Mejia, author of “Psychocandy”
With its searing noise-crush aesthetic and echoey fills layered beneath pop melodies straight out of the ’60s girl-group sound, the Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 album Psychocandy marked a watershed […]
Lost Bayou Ramblers, Rue Vermilion Revival (Independent)
With the release of 2012’s Mammoth Waltz, a lush set of sonic explorations that gracefully exploded preconceived notions about the Cajun music tradition, the Lost Bayou Ramblers cemented their rep […]
Acadiana Floods: We’re Going To Need Help
A week after an unprecedented volume of rain fell in Louisiana in August, causing floodwaters to ravage homes and businesses from Baton Rouge to Acadiana, Cezanne “Wish” Nails stood outside the […]
Magnetic Ear: Ear Say
Saxophonist Martin Krusche is sitting at the dining room table in his Ninth Ward home alongside saxophonist Dan Oestreicher, trombonists Wes Anderson IV and Jon RammGramenz, tuba player Steven Glenn […]
Mike Dillon, Functioning Broke (Royal Potato Family Records)
The breadth and sheer number of different voices Mike Dillon has at his command is impressive in just about any setting. On his new solo recording, inspired largely by the […]
Eat Street: The resurgence of Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
When the St. Roch Market opened in 2015, Councilmember-at-Large Jason Williams heralded the Landrieu administration capital project for “providing a necessary service to the surrounding neighborhoods,” and called it “an […]
Outlandish Vamps: Midnite Disturbers’ Raw, Stripped-Down Sound
MIDNITE DISTURBERS: SATURDAY, APRIL 30—JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE, 1:45 P.M. For a city that care allegedly forgot, New Orleans sure has a way of achieving the impossible when it […]
Catching on Fire: Snarky Puppy’s Blending Styles
SNARKY PUPPY: THURSDAY, APRIL 28—ZATARAIN’S WWOZ JAZZ STAGE, 5:25 P.M. “You can try it here but you’re crazy and it’s not gonna work.” That’s the reaction bassist Michael League, […]
