Issue Articles — Features
The Ultimate Louisiana Experience with Johnnie Allan
The walls of the blue room are papered with LP covers; 45 rpm records and CD jewel boxes. Awards and book jackets hang over the desk. A red and white, […]
Carnival Tales: Local Folks Remember Mardi Gras
Pete Fountain & His Half-Fast Walking Club The year is 1960 and John F. Kennedy is president, going to the moon is still a dream and the Vietnam War is […]
Lounge Science
So my editor rings me and says, “‘Got a story for ya, Tom. Write an essay on what it’s like to play piano in those lounges where nobody’s paying attention […]
Jimmy Breaux: Keeping the Dancehall Beat
That was the style, those were the instruments when I started playing music’,” said 29-year-old accordionist Jimmy Breaux. The Breaux Bridge native grew up in the 1970s, but the pedal […]
Meet Jerry Brock: A Man in Demand
Just try finding someone more involved in and essential to the New Orleans music scene than Jerry Brock. Before moving to New Orleans nearly 20 years ago to start a […]
A Dozen Questions with the Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen began shaking genre labels at the inception of the band and continue to do so with their new line-up and recent release on Mammoth records, Ears Against […]
A High Watermark for Floodgate
Ever since Kyle Thomas was a teenager the odds have been stacked against him. The music that is in his soul was often criticized and deemed unacceptable by many close-minded […]
Fertile Ground
One of art’s more subtle functions is its ability to remind the audience other aesthetics exist, and that there is no one “right” way to appreciate art. A local painter […]
