The backyard of Carrollton Station — which serves as a de facto green room in the Uptown music hub — is a flurry of panicked last-minute preparation. Debates over gear usage take place next to vocal harmony tweaking and chord memorizations. This would normally be a cause for concern in the final minutes before a [...]
It is a common trope in rock ‘n’ roll that couples should never work together. When/if things go sour between the two, band life can become particularly difficult. While this often yields great music, it can wreak havoc on members’ personal lives (see: Mac, Fleetwood). However, Alexis Marceaux and Sam Craft of local indie-folk project [...]
“You can call it ‘fear-driven creativity,’” says Fleur de Tease host Chris Lane. “It’s a work ethic thing. We have to keep pushing ourselves because audiences are paying good money to come and see us month after month.” Working hard to hone one’s art is essential in Fleur de Tease not only to keep audiences [...]
“Blandon and I were originally going for a folky sound,” says Matt Glynn. “Then we started using recording software that had synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, and the sound quickly evolved into the polar opposite of what we had initially set out to do.” In these formative stages, the local indie/electro pop band Big History [...]
On its debut, Volume One, Dirty Bourbon River Show was more of a theme than a band, playing like the soundtrack of a vaudevillian circus, with the disc coming across as a variety show rather than a unified album. On Volume Two, DBRS grows by not only expanding its scope to include various genres, including [...]
Fatter Than Albert and the Local Skank are ska and they’re not. “We definitely don’t stay within the ska scene,” says Local Skank member Melissa Crory. “We want to get our sound out there and see how other people interpret it.” “Gypsy, reggae and punk meld together to make our sound,” says D-Ray of Fatter [...]
A common theme of blues music is that of the second chance. Be it jilted lovers or unemployed derelicts, many blues songs tell the tale of a narrator lamenting loss and seeking redemption. In that regard, it is ftting that Hurray for the Riff Raff’s second album, Young Blood Blues, features a dramatic augmentation—and improvement—of the band’s sound. To be fair, Hurray for the Riff Raff’s first effort, [...]
Generally speaking, most recording artists fall into one of two categories: recording act or live act. Obviously, most working musicians make records and perform live, but the difference is most are in their element either in the studio or on stage. Young local vaudevillian rock act Dirty Bourbon River Show’s Volume One shows their identity [...]
When most New Orleans musicians think of a carnival, the brass and second lines of Mardi Gras come to mind. However, the sounds employed by the Dirty Bourbon River Show are more like those typically associated with the circus. According to front man and songwriter Noah Adams, his affection for the genre is deep-seeded, having [...]
“Before we had any music written, we had these visual ideas of how things were going to be,” says A Living Soundtrack bassist/keyboardist Nick Lauve. “We just tried to make that happen.” This is a fitting beginning for local electronic instrumental indie act A Living Soundtrack, a group that mixes cinematic, experimental sound with a [...]
