Music
Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars, Gulfstream (Octavia Records)
“Sounds like you guys were having fun up there”—as we all know, that’s the most backhanded compliment you can ever pay a band. Not the case with Roddie Romero’s latest, […]
Heartbeat of the Funk: Jon Cleary’s Music is Universal, Not Regional
What’s changed since Jon Cleary won a Grammy? Not a whole lot. Not that he doesn’t have gratitude for the coveted award, but his main memory of the ceremony in […]
Keeping Your Gravity: Royal Teeth’s Upbeat Worldview
ROYAL TEETH: SUNDAY, APRIL 24—GENTILLY STAGE, 2:10 P.M. There’s a lot that didn’t happen to Royal Teeth since they last released an album: They didn’t record with a major […]
Jazz Fest’s Greatest Hits
However many bands hit Jazz Fest there are certain songs that inevitably get played, year after year, even if the original performers of those songs are long gone. Some traditions […]
Jon Hatchett Band, Jon Hatchett Band (Independent)
These local honky-tonkers’ debut CD opens with a song about a girl who is, as Pete Townshend would say, bleedin’ quadrophenic: “Four in One Woman” is a sprightly, NRBQ-styled rocker […]
Everything Old is New Again: The Batture Boys’ New Vibe
The Batture Boys are a brand-new band; they’ve just been around for a long while. Tommy Malone and Ray Ganucheau have played together on-and-off for two decades, mostly on Malone’s […]
Following Your Bliss: Mason Ruffner Doesn’t Adhere to a Formula
Mason Ruffner had everything it takes to build a mainstream blues-rock career—everything but the desire to do so. Back in 1989, Ruffner had the elements in place: He had a […]
Hogs for the Cause Playlist
In honor of this month’s Hogs for the Cause festival, we’re going hog wild with this playlist presenting ten songs, mostly in a regional vein, to do with hogs, pig […]
REWIND: Dash Rip Rock, Boiled Alive! (Mammoth)
Leader Bill Davis presses rewind on Dash Rip Rock’s classic live album from 1991. “This was a pretty important record for us—we’d been a big college radio band and […]
Givers: Straight from the heart
Modern and NewGivers: Straight from the heart During their relatively short life as a band, Lafayette’s Givers have played all sorts of festivals, from Bonnaroo (where they’ll appear this […]
