Music
Kid Krill, Down on Royal Street (Independent)
Some of those busking musicians really know their stuff. Kid Krill is a Royal Street regular who’s also a first-rate blues scholar: All six tracks on this EP are lost […]
Borealis Rex, Dawn ’Til Done (Drag Snake Records)
Borealis Rex’ debut EP, Cut Your Teeth, included one of my favorite tracks of 2019, “Take It Out On Me.” It’s a riff-slinging rocker with a chorus you can’t get […]
Beth Patterson collaborates with prog-rock band Yes
What do you do if you’ve just written a resonant song about life under shutdown? If you’re Beth Patterson, you call in a member of the iconic prog-rock band Yes […]
Sweet Crude, Officiel // Artificiel (Verve Forecast)
The first really grabbing moment on Sweet Crude’s sophomore album happens midway through the opening track, “COGO.” At the point where you expect an instrumental solo, front-woman Alexis Marceaux instead […]
The Revealers, Pray Chant Sing (Independent)
The Revealers (not to be confused with Cajun band the Revelers) are probably New Orleans’ longest-running reggae band by now, and this CD was supposed to coincide with a brace […]
Aurora Nealand & Tom McDermott, Live at Luthjen’s (Big Whinny)
Singer/saxophonist Nealand and pianist McDermott never cared too much about musical boundaries, so the set list for this duo album is about as eclectic as you’d hope. There’s Chopin, Carole […]
Cowboy Mouth, Open Wide (Independent)
Since the classic Sanchez/Savoy lineup splintered a dozen years ago, Cowboy Mouth have seemed a bit unsure of how to present themselves in the studio: they’ve done albums that were […]
Interesting Times: Debbie Davis and Josh Paxton are rebootin
Barely six weeks ago, the duo of Debbie Davis and Josh Paxton had big plans for this season: They’d be performing both at Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest, and […]
The Revivalists, ‘Made in Muscle Shoals’ (Loma Vista)
This side-trip EP marks the Revivalists’ first stab at a two-way collaboration—except in this case, it’s a collaboration between a band and a studio. Alabama’s Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals […]
Mike Zito & Friends, Rock & Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry (Ruf Records)
Mike Zito & Friends: Loose and Lively You can never have too much Chuck Berry in your collection. But a quick glance at the credits of this tribute album […]
