Music
Elizabeth Joan Kelly Farewell, Doomed Planet! (Independent)
Elizabeth Joan Kelly has specialized for the better part of a decade now in creating ambient “background” music designed to create a low-key uncomfortable restlessness—she titled one such collection “Music […]
Katy Hobgood Ray featuring Dave Ray, I Dream of Water (Out of the Past Music)
So much American roots music is folk balladry when you get right down to it, or at least it started that way, which is why it’s disturbing how completely mainstream […]
In Business, Space Story (Independent)
If any cultural capital in the world could possibly reboot the adventures of the P-Funk mothership, the Crescent City would be it. Yet this sextet, already well-known for its stage […]
Roadside Glorious, Brawn and Bone (Independent)
Roadside Glorious styles itself as a blues-rock group, but there’s a surprisingly strong soul element that lands them more on the side of swamp-rock. The result gives them a range […]
Georgi Petrov, Alien of Extraordinary Abilities (Breakfast for Dinner Records)
An “Alien of Extraordinary Abilities” is not a Grey with telekinesis or something like that, as jazz guitarist Georgi Petrov playfully alludes in the art for his second album; it’s […]
Lilli Lewis Project, We Belong (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
As a solo act, Lilli Lewis referred to her style as orange music, meant to distinguish it from blues proper. It made sense, too: her version of the folk blues […]
Ghalia, Mississippi Blend (Ruf Records)
If you haven’t read the article on Ghalia Volt in this issue—go ahead, we’ll wait—you might not know just how impressive her story is. Born in Brussels, she discovered and […]
Esther Rose, You Made it This Far (Father / Daughter)
Twenty years ago, no one would have guessed that the Lower 9th Ward would become one of the hippest recording studio hotspots in the country. But as Uptown became Hollywood […]
Notel Motel, Heavy & Sweaty (Last Hope)
Turns out it’s pretty easy to create the perfect indie rock barbecue/pool party playlist for the sketchier suburbs of NOLA. According to Notel Motel’s second album, all you need is: […]
The journey of Ghalia Volt: Blues Out of Nowhere:
It’s one thing to pay your dues in order to sing the blues, but what if you discover the music, fall in love with it, learn to play it, and […]
