November 2009
BackTalk
- Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne
It takes a rare talent to make a hit out of a song that tells the listener “everyone you know…
Cover Story
- Voodoo 2009: The Noisician Coalition Brings the Noise
Mattvaughan Black is fiddling around. He’s sitting outside of Cafe Rose Nicaud, and while telling stories of his adventures as Mr.…
Features
- The Drummer's Roots
Tragedies have a way of highlighting the heroes in our midst, and if ever there was a tragedy, Katrina was it.… - Girls on Film
Rik Slave moves like a marionette. The lead singer for Rock City Morgue is onstage at One Eyed Jacks dancing like… - Voodoo 2009: Down Home
“The closest who need you (and) the closest surrounding you will walk away and when we walk away there will be… - A Post-K Education
“The history of New Orleans in the wrenching aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be telegraphed in one sentence. Politics failed, culture… - Voodoo 2009: Take Five
The Pogues, Sunday 2:15 p.m. PlayStation/Billboard.com Stage Things seemed dire there for Shane MacGowan when in 1991 he was deemed too… - Voodoo 2009: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning with R. Scully
Ryan Scully’s got the cure for what ails you. But he’s also part of the disease that afflicts your “sin-sick soul.”… - Voodoo 2009: Eminem and the Art of the Beef
Eminem’s latest single, “Beautiful,” sounds more like the theme song for a mid-life crisis than his usual attack on pop culture.… - You Can Never Go Home Anymore
Photo by Jerry Moran More than four years after the federal flood, Cyril Neville still can’t shake the nightmares. The ordinary… - Voodoo 2009: The Power of P-Funk
I saw George Clinton for the first time in 1986—on TV. It was “Late Night with David Letterman” and Clinton, sporting…
Fresh
- Frenchy's Film Finally
The King of Oak Street may be the most famous documentary you’ve never seen. But neither has anyone else, really. The… - Color Our World
Considering the harsh political spotlight and the importance of an official’s image, one would think Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s words would… - Exhorder Returns
Exhorder, New Orleans’ thrash metal pioneers, have officially reunited. The group pioneered the power groove style, and Lamb of God and… - Indians With Strings Attached
On Thanksgiving night, the Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra will return to the site of its memorable debut at the Hi Ho… - The District Model
Any journey outside of Louisiana will reveal not only the uniqueness and vibrancy of our culture, but also our uncommonly strong…
Letters
- November 2009 Letters
WETLANDS Excellent article on Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands, in fact, the best I’ve seen—thanks for “getting” it,…
Mojo Mouth
- We Are the World
Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu’s World Cultural Economic Forum once again takes place in New Orleans, with panels and showcases of our…
OffBeat Eats
- Mark Braud Hits the Spot at Dooky Chase's
Dooky Chase 2301 Orleans Ave (504) 821-0600 Why Dooky Chase? I remember the first time I came here. I was in… - Dining Out: Stanley
When we first visited the reopened and relocated Stanley back in January, we sadly left very disappointed. The lowlights: burned gumbo,…
Dining Out
- Girls on Film
Rik Slave moves like a marionette. The lead singer for Rock City Morgue is onstage at One Eyed Jacks dancing like… - Dining Out: Stanley
When we first visited the reopened and relocated Stanley back in January, we sadly left very disappointed. The lowlights: burned gumbo,…
The Spot
- Mark Braud Hits the Spot at Dooky Chase's
Dooky Chase 2301 Orleans Ave (504) 821-0600 Why Dooky Chase? I remember the first time I came here. I was in…
Reviews
- CD Review: A Fine Frenzy's "Oh, Blue Christmas"
[In the December issue, we reviewed a number of Christmas CDs, but more came in after deadline. We hope to deal… - Rock City Morgue, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Castle Gray Skull)
Rock City Morgue has generally traded on a version of New York-based, B-movie-oriented punk rock for much of its career, and… - Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of New Orleans: 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rounder)
On which we celebrate the Queen’s 49th anniversary in show business, actually, counting from her first single, 1960’s “Don’t Mess with… - the subdudes, Flower Petals (429)
After the straightforward verisimilitude of its CD/DVD release Live at the Ram’s Head, the new subdudes album, Flower Petals, is a… - Jeremy Davenport, We’ll Dance ‘Til Dawn (Basin Street)
Jeremy Davenport has lived much of his career in quotation marks, a living homage to another day and style. Onstage, he’s… - Harry Connick, Jr., Your Songs (Columbia)
I assume that the title—Your Songs—is a reference to standards, songs that belong to all of us. On his new album,… - Clarence Bucaro, New Orleans (Hyena)
On his latest album, New Orleans, Clarence Bucaro revisits a project he shelved prior to releasing 2008's ’Til Spring. Backed by… - Mike Hood, Hocus Pocus (STR Digital)
Pianist Mike Hood knows how to please a crowd during his regular gigs at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, as long as the… - Jivin’ Gene, It’s Never Too Late (Jin)
Jivin’ Gene was one of the original swamp poppers, having made a regional splash on his very first single, “Going Out… - Plunge, Dancing on Thin Ice (Immersion)
For the first time in 13 years, trombonist Marc McGrain has convened a group of musicians to record an album under… - Betty Davis, Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic)
It’s desire. On the album Betty Davis recorded in 1976 at Studio in the Woods in Bogalusa, the title may ask… - Lloyd Price and William Waller, The True King of the 50's: The Lloyd Price Story (Lloyd Price)
Unless you’ve read several vanity/self-published books, I doubt you’ve ever encountered a publication quite like this one. Lloyd Price is definitely… - Swamp Dogg, Give ’em as Little as You Can... As Often as You Have to...or a Tribute to Rock ’n’ Roll (S-Curve)
Considering Swamp Dogg, a.k.a. Jerry Williams, is one of the most brilliant songwriters of his generation—this man wrote “If I Could… - Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Zydeco Heart and Soul (Louisiana Soul)
Ever since he stepped out from behind the traps and emerged as a frontman, Curley Taylor has been a zydeco modernist.… - Cliff Hines Quintet, Like Mystics of Old (Independent)
The simple phrase, “This album is dedicated to all of my teachers: past, present, and future,” lines the inside cover of… - Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band, Devaloka (Notone)
A yoga soundtrack is a very specialized thing, but that’s what Devaloka is. And as far as I—a non-yoga person—can tell,… - Jenny Brooks, Down in the Bayou (Independent)
Jenny Brooks breaks my heart. She makes a form of country that the marketplace doesn’t seem to have any place for… - Mutemath, Armistice (Warner Bros.)
“Do you believe this world lacks the common courtesy to thank us all for this love?” track one, “The Nerve,” asks…
