Pleasure Club, The Fugitive Kind (Purified Records/Brash)

David Bowie, Saenger Theatre, April 30, 2004

Safe is not a word one normally associates with David Bowie. Here is an artist who has spent the better part of the last 35 years confounding expectations, challenging his […]

Bob Dylan, Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Columbia/Legacy)

The Darkness, House of Blues, April 9, 2004

Al Green and Bobby “Blue” Bland, Saenger Theatre, April 29, 2004

Hamell On Trial, Mermaid Lounge, January 18, 2004

Placebo, House of Blues, December 6, 2003

Pleasure Club, Here Comes the Trick/Live: Out of the Pulpit (Purified Records/Sixthman)

The night of May 18, 2002 lives strong in my memory. With good reason, because that night I finally discovered a rock band here in New Orleans worth getting excited […]

Bipolaroid, Transparent Make-Believe (Surreal But Kind)

Bipolaroid: Transparent Make-Believe (Surreal But Kind)

Double Exposure: Ben Glover and Ben Sumner of Bipolaroid

Bipolaroid, as their name suggests, are a mass of contradictions. Following a favorable live review in the March 2003 issue of OffBeat, they became—quite possibly—the first psychedelic rock outfit ever […]