“It was curiously flat.” What halftime show was music industry critic Bob Lefsetz watching? For those who wanted to see guys stand there and churn away on guitars, there wasn’t much there for you, but it was so relentlessly over the top that it was hard not to be entertained. Gladiators? Check. Thor’s helmet? Check. [...]
Tag Archives: Prince
Trombone Shorty vs. Prince
August 1, 2011 – 12:09 am
The Montreal International Jazz Festival offers a broad palette of styles covering disparate jazz formats, and, like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and most other “jazz” festivals in North America, adds a significant dose of popular music acts to boost attendance. This year Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and the Soul Rebels were [...]
Sean and Secrets
October 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
In the world of zydeco, being able to trace one’s lineage to Amédé and Bois Sec Ardoin is a little like having relatives in Windsor Castle while you keep an address in the shire. The old timers watched the precocious boy drumming at age four. It had to be in their minds that this one [...]
The White Bitch, The White Bitch’s Prey Drive (Independent)
September 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Writer Michael Patrick Welch’s musical project—the White Bitch—has proven to be an admirably unpredictable project, one that can be acoustic or electric, funky or bombastic, solo or a group, theatrical or unadorned. The White Bitch’s Prey Drive suggests how Welch conceives of the songs, which is closer to their Prince-y roots and less the space [...]
