Issue Articles
Morning 40 Federation
“What I didn’t like about the other records is that our live energy didn’t come across at all,” says Bailey Smith (snarling on the right), “not even on one song.” […]
Open for Business
South by Southwest has evolved from a gathering of music industry professionals and new bands into the music industry conference and the showcase for bands looking to do business of […]
New Orleans Social Club, Sing Me Back Home (Burgundy/Sony BMG Special Marketing/Honey Darling)
If there is an essential characteristic of New Orleans music, it’s the spirit of play. From the singles Cosimo Matassa produced and those Allen Toussaint wrote to Preservation Hall […]
Various Artists, Our New Orleans (Nonesuch)
If there is an essential characteristic of New Orleans music, it’s the spirit of play. From the singles Cosimo Matassa produced and those Allen Toussaint wrote to Preservation Hall […]
Dr. John, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions, Volume Two (Clean Cuts)
It might be heretical to say, but I’m not always in the mood for Dr. John. The Dr. John concept is an ambitious, resonant one, but there are days […]
Dr. John, Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina’s Mardi Gras 1989 (Hyena)
It might be heretical to say, but I’m not always in the mood for Dr. John. The Dr. John concept is an ambitious, resonant one, but there are days […]
Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Swamp Tech (Rhinestone)
For years now, Quintron and Miss Pussycat have made art that is quintessentially New Orleans, not only in the way it celebrates the city’s bohemian culture but in its […]
Be Here to Love Me (DVD) (Rake Films)
Be Here to Love Me, Margaret Brown’s documentary about the life of Texas folk-blues legend Townes Van Zandt succeeds in making folk music a visual thing. Threaded through the […]
Various Artists, Heartworm Highways (Shout! Factory)
Be Here to Love Me, Margaret Brown’s documentary about the life of Texas folk-blues legend Townes Van Zandt succeeds in making folk music a visual thing. Threaded through the […]
Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
After lunch one recent afternoon, a guy rode up on his bike and asked a friend and I, “Are you reporters? You look like reporters.” Before waiting for our […]
