Music
Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes: 2000 Days (Full Frontal)
After nearly a decade on the jam-band circuit, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes are clearly swinging for the rafters on their latest album, 2000 Days, and not just because […]
Dave Jordan: Bring Back Red Raspberry (Threadhead Records)
“Dave Jordan sings true songs about love, heartbreak, loneliness, shrimp, and pie.” So says his website, in the way only a native New Orleans musician would describe his new joint. […]
Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Spiritual Vibrations
The funky blues guitarist they call the Wolfman only let opportunity pass him by once. One night in the early ’60s, Joe Tex, soul master and fixture of R&B scenes […]
Death Cab for Cutie, Codes and Keys (Atlantic Records)
As Beck and Damon Albarn know too well, your celebrity fantasy girlfriend only becomes a proper muse when she leaves you. Knowing this, Death Cab for Cutie fans have been […]
Mr. Ghetto Talks Walmart
“This is our culture,” Mr. Ghetto says, calmly but defiantly, “just like Mardi Gras or jazz. Bounce is a major part of New Orleans and ain’t one better than the […]
Odoms, Let Me Atom, (Independent)
It’s not surprising that Odoms Odometer—birth name Adam Bourgeois, better known as the hand and the voice of Lil’ Doogie, New Orleans’ most beloved puppet since Mr. Bingle—comes off on […]
This Is Pop?
Blame Bill Millar. Although the English music critic had used the term throughout the Sixties, “swamp-pop”—a label everyone agrees is his invention—became ingrained in musicological lore forever with his 1971 […]
Topaz and Mudphonic, Music for Dorothy (Independent)
Is it possible to sell out by becoming a jam band? That’s the question unfortunately raised by acid-jazz saxman Topaz McGarrigle and his new quasi-supergroup of roots sidemen, Mudphonic. They […]
Alias:Orion, While the City Burned (SixtyThirteen)
Indie arena rock? Well, why not? The five tunes on these locals’ debut EP swell to stadium size, yet could conceivably speak to an entire generation of post-emo, post-radio, post-everything […]
Southern Sexual, Negative Value (Permanent Lifetime)
Yes, everyone’s favorite industrial/swinger/comedy duo is back, and if you haven’t heard them, skip the opening track on this second disc. “Very Much” is a rare instance where the joke […]
