Music
Royal Southern Brotherhood, heartsoulblood (Ruf Records)
After a fine, but ultimately stop-gap, live album, here’s this rock-soul supergroup’s first true follow-up to their debut. The exciting news is that the five-piece’s personalities have already congealed—it can […]
Nikka B., Poison Girl, Inc. (Upper Ninth)
“Nikka,” like “nukka,” holds a special place in the vernacular of the streets. But Nikka B., who hails from Oakland, grew up smack in the middle of the 13th Ward, […]
Sundog, Space Criminal (Community Records)
Pop music is a creature that thrives on gimmicks and enigmas, and that bodes well for Sundog’s future outside the Crescent City. He’s definitely NOLA’s greatest anonymous live looper with […]
The Quintessential Octopus, Mother (Independent)
Don’t look now, but there’s a whole indie-pop scene mushrooming—sometimes literally out of the bedrooms of New Orleans, but, more often than not, from the minds of transplants who came […]
Fo’ Reel, Heavy Water (Independent)
Calling themselves a New Orleans “supergroup” may be a bit of a misnomer: Fo’ Reel’s four main members are veterans of the local music scene, session-men mostly, with Dr. John […]
Misled, Injection (Independent)
This trio dropped a punk-rock debut on the local scene about a decade ago, then stepped back and translated their ethos into folk-rock around 2010 as Chris Rico and the […]
Ben E. Hunter, The Nature of Things (Independent)
Acoustic albums, even reggae ones, don’t usually open with a swell of fake horns, strings and female vocals that make you think some vintage James Bond movie is coming on—but, […]
Judith Owen, Ebb & Flow (Twanky Records)
Of all the contenders to the Joni Mitchell throne, a club that seems to grow rather than diminish with the passage of time, Judith Owen now seems to have a […]
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Rollin’ with the Blues Boss (Stony Plain)
It’s almost impossible to make the blues sound fresh after a century. Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne rocks those same old one-four-five, AABA verses with no real change in lyrical content, […]
Jim O’ & the Swanky Psychos, Jim O’ & the Swanky Psychos (Independent)
James O’Donnell is yet another post-K addition to the New Orleans scene, this time from New Jersey. But although this is his second album, this Circle Bar favorite has a […]
