Music
Will Payne Harrison, Louisiana Summer (Independent)
If Louisiana Summer were a person—and this reviewer has no idea how closely it resembles its artist, former Onlies leader Will Payne Harrison—it would be a likable chap, earthy but […]
Deltaphonic: Texas, Texas (Independent)
New Orleans’ twisted take on Americana is naturally faster, funnier, funkier, and drunkier than Appalachian balladry or baroque folk or Southern garage blues or whatever. And at first blush, it […]
The New Orleans Steamcog Orchestra, Victory Through Steam (Lab Rock Records)
By now you’ve probably heard of COG, that is, the Consortium of Genius, the ever-expanding melange of nerd-rock showoffs happily pursuing world domination under the direction of mad scientist Dr. […]
Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys, Never Trust the Living (Independent)
They hole up on Frenchman, mainly at the Apple Barrel, with occasional forays into Mid City’s heart of darkness. They hail from New York’s East Village, and they interned at […]
Guy Davis, Kokomo Kidd (M.C. Records)
Black bluesmen don’t pick up the banjo all that often, despite its prominence in the music’s rural history, but Guy Davis sees blues the way it was before it became […]
Nation Beat Featuring Cha Wa, Carnival Caravan (Independent)
Brazilian maracatu drumming is to the Recife and Olinda Carnival scenes what the second-line beat is to good old New Orleans Mardi Gras, so it was only a matter of […]
Mary Jane Guiney, Stay True (Independent)
Something in this city calls to Australians—and that’s not just more OffBeat-brand civic boosterism. The secret romance of the port city, no doubt, not to mention something to do with […]
Shemekia Copeland, Outskirts of Love (Alligator Records)
Shemekia is the blues diva who needs no introduction, and if she does, you probably don’t need to know anyway—daughter of storied Texas guitar slinger Johnny Copeland, she had the […]
Ratty Scurvics, Posterity Stares at Me/Deathchildren (Upper Ninth Records)
To put it in colloquial terms, Ratty Scurvics is Vince Vance’s boy, though we won’t dwell on his local lineage too much, since Ratty, who otherwise shares his father’s love […]
Jamie Lynn Vessels, Home (Independent)
Jamie Lynn is the latest in a long line of girls-with-guitars who picked up where Sheryl Crow left off, at least from a personality standpoint; she seems like the one […]
