Music
MyNameIsJohnMichael, The People That Come and Go (Independent)
MyNameIsJohnMichael is nothing if not ambitious. The band spent 2008 writing, recording, and releasing a new song every week of the year—52 total. The arduous process transformed a singer/songwriter’s pet […]
Hurray for the Riff Raff: Love and Desperation
With an economic meltdown at home and endless wars abroad, the America of the early 21st Century is beginning to look a lot like the America of the 1930s. And […]
Glasgow, On Earth (Independent)
Concept albums are risky business for any artist. Viewed by some as masterful and others as pretentious, the concept album is one of rock’s more polarizing landmarks. Luckily, local indie […]
A Whole New World
Whenever anyone—New Orleanian or otherwise—hears the name “Blaine Kern,” images of elaborate Mardi Gras floats typically come to mind. Barry Kern, Blaine’s son and President and CEO of Mardi Gras […]
Graduation Day
“We’d like to model ourselves after Ben Harper,” says Revivalists’ drummer Andrew Campanelli. “He’s in the jam scene, but he doesn’t do 30-minute jams, and he writes well-written songs that […]
The Song of the Week
“I was having drinks with a friend,” recalls singer/songwriter John Michael Rouchell of MyNameIsJohnMichael, “and he called me lazy. He said I should put out a song every week of […]
Good Guys, The Social Engagement (Independent)
My highly subjective (and most likely inaccurate) interpretation of chaos theory is that seemingly random occurrences are actually orchestrated happenings. The same could be said of The Social Engagement, the […]
Rock in a Brass Town
Life isn’t easy for a rock band in the birthplace of jazz. However, Good Guys, a local metal-meets-lounge act, are trying to mine the city for an audience. “It’s definitely […]
