Sometimes it helps to cut right to the chase: The New Orleans Suspects are above all a live band, so they didn’t wait long (less than a year after their studio debut) to make a live album. One glance at the band personnel (with familiar names from the Nevilles, the Radiators and Dirty Dozen) and [...]
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Old Wine, New Bottles:
The Radiators Hit Jazz Fest
in New Incarnations
May 1, 2013 – 12:16 pm
The Radiators are gone, but they haven’t gone far away. The beloved local group, which closed the Gentilly Stage for decades, split up two years ago; and instead of one post-Radiators band, there’s now a handful—three of which are playing the Fest this year, putting all five Rads on the fairgrounds. Singer, keyboardist and main [...]
Tipitina’s Announces Return of the Radiators
October 2, 2012 – 5:40 pm
Tipitina’s has announced it will present the return of the Radiators for two shows to mark the club’s 35th anniversary January 18th and 19th, 2013. The New Orleans band bade farewell to its fans with a weekend’s worth of shows at Tips in June of 2011. Highlights of those performances are collected on the 3-CD [...]
The New Orleans Suspects, The New Orleans Suspects (Independent)
October 1, 2012 – 12:57 am
If there’s any doubt the New Orleans Suspects are the best kind of throwback, check the funky, jubilant version of the traditional hymn “Jesus on the Mainline” that closes their debut CD. The band pulls out everything to make the tune percolate, including a rollicking C.R. Gruver piano solo (which works in a Fess reference [...]
Zeke Fishhead Sails Under the Radar, Releases Payroll of Bones
September 13, 2012 – 12:32 pm
Ed Volker has been churning out lots of newly recorded material under his nom de plume of Zeke Fishhead since disbanding the Radiators last year. His latest release, Payroll of Bones, is just out. All 12 original songs were written by Volker and recorded under the “pretensions” of Zeke Fishhead between April and August of [...]
The Radiators, The Last Watusi (Radz Records)
September 1, 2012 – 12:59 am
The Radiators emerged from underground status as one of the country’s best unsigned groups in 1978 and became a trademark of New Orleans rock. The band was a kind of psychedelic exfoliation of the Meters, working off of material fashioned from a palette that ranged from Jelly Roll Morton to Professor Longhair, Leadbelly to Taj [...]
Reggie Scanlan Fans in Florida Organize Bike Benefit
June 16, 2012 – 3:38 pm
South Florida Radiators fans have organized an unusual benefit for bassist Reggie Scanlan. Scanlan was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In March, he underwent a complicated procedure called Whipple Surgery and was in the hospital for one month thereafter. In order to defray his medical expenses, a “Ride for Reggie” is being held in Boca Raton, [...]
The Radiators: One Year After the Last Watusi
June 4, 2012 – 1:54 pm
This coming weekend marks the approximate first anniversary of “The Last Watusi”, a weekend’s worth of of farewell shows at Tipitina’s by the Radiators. After 33 years, the band that provided a soundtrack to the life of a big cross section of New Orleanians and an eccentric nexus to myriad strains of the city’s music [...]
