Music
Kayla Woodson, Kayla Woodson (Independent)
She’s from Waggaman originally, but like so many before her, Kayla Woodson journeyed to Nashville in order to make it as a country star, simultaneously enrolling in Belmont College’s music […]
Corinne Bailey Rae: Feeling Brave
Few singers these days can get their worldview across with the timbre of their voice alone the way Corinne Bailey Rae can—warm, intimate, largely positive and humanist, her brand of […]
Blame it on the Storm
If you’ve lived in New Orleans your whole life, you’ve probably noticed that there have been three major tectonic shifts in the mainstream (i.e., white) culture of the city over […]
Tasha Taylor, Honey for the Biscuit (Ruf)
Tasha Taylor is the daughter of Stax soul legend Johnnie Taylor, and far from shying away from her heritage she’s embraced it fully, carrying the torch for soul-blues without a […]
Matt Babineaux, A Place to Fall (Independent)
You’re allowed to take your time in Americana music, based as it is on old folk traditions; one of its main appeals is the way it can slowly unfold itself, […]
Dick Deluxe, Turning 61 on Highway 61 (Independent)
Go ahead and get those jokes out of your system now. Dick Deluxe (not his birth name, sorry) is a busker from out California way, the kind of ex-hippie who […]
Smoke N Bones, Amplify (Independent)
Here’s another undoubtedly talented NOLA outfit that can take on just about any style of black music invented before Kurtis Blow came along but gets hamstrung by a severe identity […]
Swingin’ Melatauns, The Melatauns, (Independent)
If you saw the name of this four or five piece occasionally augmented by horns and thought you might be getting a Swingin’ Medallions type garage band done up NOLA […]
Creole String Beans, Golden Crown (Independent)
If you’ve never been fortunate enough to get a ladies’ choice dance to these guys, know that the Creole String Beans are the city’s best wedding band, which of course […]
The Batture Boys, Muddy Water (Independent)
Add together one subdude and one Continental Drifter (that is, Tommy Malone and Ray Ganucheau) and you get this debut EP by the Batture Boys, a duo who, perhaps predictably, […]
