Author Archives: David Lee Simmons

Bonerama with OK Go, You’re Not Alone (Independent)

Those who missed the live collaboration between Bonerama and modern-rock wunderkinds OK Go’s benefit gig for Sweet Home New Orleans and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson at Tipitina’s in January can still hear the collaboration with the five-song EP You’re Not Alone—released only through iTunes. It’s an oddly charming little affair, confirming that Bonerama can further [...]

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Linnzi Zaorski, Hot Wax and Whiskey (Independent)

On this, her third release, retro torch singer Linnzi Zaorski appears to have realized if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Her ’30s-drenched vocals, all thin, vibrato and nasal, have become a fixture in the Frenchmen Street music scene that birthed such neo/trad-jazz ensembles as the New Orleans Jazz Vipers and Vavavoom. Three albums in, [...]

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The Bad Off, Lady Day (Independent)

For the past few years, the Bad Off has been working the local clubs, perhaps energized by a renewed love of cock-rock that has inspired everyone from as near as Supagroup to as far away as that British flash-in-the-pan the Darkness. There’s this sense that the Bad Off loves to let it all hang out [...]

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