Music
Van Halen, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Warner Brothers Records)
Ever since the sappy “Jump” became Van Halen’s first chart-topping single, the band has pursued melody at the expense of the mischievous abandon that fueled its earlier records. But with […]
New Music: Peabody
As local colleges fill up for the fall semester, the number of progressive rock aficionados in New Orleans also increases. Though often overlooked, a progressive community has flourished in New […]
New Music: The Phantoms
As local colleges fill up for the fall semester, the number of progressive rock aficionados in New Orleans also increases. Though often overlooked, a progressive community has flourished in New […]
New Music: The House Levelers
As local colleges fill up for the fall semester, the number of progressive rock aficionados in New Orleans also increases. Though often overlooked, a progressive community has flourished in New […]
Metallica, Metallica (Elektra Records)
When the members of Metallica chose Bob Rock to produce the follow-up to their 1989 double platinum …And Justice For All, fans shuddered: the nation’s premier thrash band would be […]
Consolidated, Friendly Fascism (Nettwerk/IRS Records)
Less an album and more a pro-vegetarianism, anti-sexism manifesto, Friendly Fascism, the second LP from this San Francisco-based trio, is nonetheless an ambitious synthesis of industrial dance music and hip-hop. […]
Pat Benatar and Roomful of Blues: Blues Surprise
You’d have thought that if anyone was a committed female rocker, it would be Pat Benatar. Sure, early Simon and Linda Ronstadt were considered strictly pop artists and they strayed […]
Ear to the Ground: The Levelers Tear Down the House
Band names often inspire nothing but indifference. Not so with New Orleans’ House Levelers. They are not the Housemartins, or the House of Lords, or Crowded House—they are the House […]
Gotta Dance: The Dance Club Tour
“Qualify yourself before the gate keepsman and enter the age of golden lust Fixated pipe dreams, Swirls of neon love and lights… Bow into the beauty of plastic fantasy and […]
Movers and Shakers: Music Scene Makers
If it be true that music makes the world go round, the question still remains: what makes the music? Obviously, the musician. But is that all? No—as many a talented-yet-poor […]
