“Looking back on our albums,” says Explosions in the Sky‘s Chris Hrasky, “Subtlety has not been our strong point.” Since their first album, Explosions in the Sky’s talent or lack of subtlety hasn’t been questioned. This is the band whose demo tape was submitted to label Temporary Residence Limited with the note, “This totally fucking [...]
Salvatore Geloso, a finalist for Rolling Stone’s “Street to Stage” competition, shrugged when some of the magazine’s cameramen asked for information. The word that best describes his encounter is probably unsuspecting. After all, this is a guy who loves to serenade people in the street for the hell of it (and a little tip money). [...]
If you haven’t been to an electronic show, you might wonder why people would subject themselves to one. First, the bass is turned up so loud that one well-placed bass note could blow away someone under a hundred pounds in an arm-whomping, severe gust of wind. In a Bassnectar review, I wrote about how I [...]
“I have trouble sleeping sometimes,” admits 22-year-old Demian Reed. It’s not his Tulane course load that’s causing his insomnia. Reed’s sleepless nights are caused by something completely different, a problem that likely doesn’t affect any other business student on Tulane’s campus. “I can’t stop thinking about cherry tomatoes.” Last year, Reed joined the growing number [...]
When 90-year-old James Lewis Carter Ford visits bars, he makes a special request. “Play Taledragger,” he’ll say. When the bartender obliges, Ford (better known as blues man T-Model Ford) grins while he listens to his latest record. This summer, the nonagerian is on tour nationally in support of his recent record. 2010’s Taledragger is a dirty [...]
Forget the sweltering heat outside. Put on your hand-knitted Gryffindor scarves and head to the nearest movie theater for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The last installment in the series officially starts tomorrow, but you have some choices if you can’t wait. The shows listed here may sell out (if they haven’t [...]
Television watchers are trying to figure out how Treme received no Emmy nominations in 2011. At HollywoodReporter.com, Tim Goodman went on at length about the oversight of the HBO drama set in New Orleans: And if you want to dip a toe into the milk of embarrassment, just take the Treme snub a little further: [...]
On July 23, a funeral procession will throng through the French Quarter. The second liners won’t be in funeral attire; they will wear formal clothes and emerge at 11:30 a.m. from the Hotel Monteleone, the starting point of the procession. The departed was once a close friend of the second liners, especially during the 1990s, [...]
Jerry Lenaz’s favorite dance is the stomp-around. “You turn half way, shake your butt, and end with a fist pump,” the 610 Stomper explains. Lenaz, who is the co-chair for the 610 Stompers’ Ball Crawl, looks forward to the summertime debut of the Stompers’ next move, which they’re keeping under wraps for now. His nickname [...]
It amazed me what a small space the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama was held in. The two main stages faced other across a stretch of beach that held crowds for competing headliners comfortably. Almost everything else was packed into the boardwalk. Crunching a festival of this magnitude into such a small space [...]
