Issue Articles
Acid & Other Drugs
I am now officially in cahoots. The Noizefest I wrote about for the Jazz Fest issue ended up taking place in my backyard in the Bywater, after Jay “MC Trachiotomy” […]
The Bad Off, Twilight in Eclipse (Independent)
Singer Erik Corveaux starts the Bad Off’s new four-song Twilight in Eclipse with a “Yeah, that’s right!” Then the rock kicks in. Despite the stop-start Talking Heads bassline of “You […]
Cum On Feel the Noise
I’ve always jokingly typed “Jazz(zzz)fest.” But as my girlfriend commented while reading this year’s line-up, “Dave Matthews and Nelly? They should just go ahead and call it DouchebagFest.” Or Clear […]
Passing Grades
A while ago I wrote a book about my bad experience teaching in a New Orleans public school. I taught for only one semester and it was just too much, […]
MC Trachiotomy’s Love Thing
Alt NO: MC Trachiotomy’s Love Thing
Alt NO: The Return of Awful Art
Behind his spectacles, thick beard, Saints cap and Bonnaroo t-shirt with the sleeves cut out, 49-year-old Ray Bong doesn’t look like much of an electronic music wizard. But as the founding and torch-bearing member of ’80s-born abstract music collective the Bongoloids, Bong has, in his words, “earned [his] psychedelic guru patch.”
