Issue Articles
Clint Maedgen
Clint Maedgen is a busy man. The impresario behind the Brechtian New Orleans musical theater group The New Orleans Bingo! Show is also the front man for his own groups, […]
From France to Frenchmen Street
When the French twin brothers Francois and Louis Moutin were growing up in Paris, one of the games they engaged in together was pretending they were playing New Orleans traditional […]
The Zydepunks, Finisterre (Independent)
The Zydepunks are one of the signature bands of the postmillennial New Orleans rock scene, a movement that started before Katrina but has flourished in the wake of the flood. […]
Coco Robicheaux, Like I Said, Yeah, U Rite!: The Techneaux Swamp Sessions (Independent)
You’re liable to see Curtis Arceneaux a.k.a. Coco Robicheaux on Frenchman Street anytime, surveying the passersby while nursing a robusto maduro or torpedo cigar. But every Saturday night, Robicheaux holds […]
Mitch Woods, Jukebox Drive (El Toro)
There is a road, call it the blues highway, that takes you through the classic tropes of swing and boogie woogie into jump blues, early R&B and proto rock ’n’ […]
Dr. John
The night they were to play on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote their new album City That Care Forgot, Dr. John gave his band one specific instruction. […]
Dr. Michael White: Out of the Woods
Dr. Michael White is haunted. Everywhere he goes he encounters spirits. White isn’t particularly superstitious, nor is he charismatic in either the born again or the voodoo sense. Nevertheless, he […]
