The guys in Beatin Path describe themselves as alt-country on their website and in press. On first listen, though, Beatin Path sounds less like Son Volt or Wilco and more like the Wallflowers or Train being fronted by Don Henley. That being said, it surprises me how enjoyable I found their third album, appropriately titled [...]
Remember when you could actually dance to rock and roll music? The Fantastic Ooze obviously haven’t forgotten, as their debut CD Fusion Snakes contains some of the finest dance music I have heard in a long time. And this dance music doesn’t rely on computerized beats, synth swells, or ecstasy to put its listener into [...]
Tungsten dedicates its latest release, If Death Doesn’t Change You, to lead singer Al Hodge’s recently deceased father and a departed close friend. It mustn’t help matters that the band hailed from Chalmette, a city that took one of the hardest hits from Hurricane Katrina. These facts in mind, the album makes no attempts to [...]
I remember asking my friends and family a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, “So, what are we doing for Halloween?” They thought I was crazy, but this same enthusiasm to forget the suffering and loss for awhile was not lost on the crowd of lucky ticket holders present for Voodoo 2005. The [...]
