October 2008
BackTalk
- Clint Maedgen
Clint Maedgen is a busy man. The impresario behind the Brechtian New Orleans musical theater group The New Orleans Bingo! Show…
Cover Story
- Trent Reznor: Before the Slip
Trent Reznor speaks in full sentences. Most interview subjects don’t, but it’s likely that the architect of Nine Inch Nails has…
Features
- Voodoo Fest: You Do Voodoo
- Who's on Top?
- Happy Talk: Everybody's Talking
It’s four days after Hurricane Gustav made landfall, and citizens are still filtering into the city as New Orleans makes a… - New Orleans Film Festival: Past Due
- Indie Rock: A Little Help
Fresh
- More Seafood, More Festival
Now New Orleans has two seafood festivals, one in June and one that starts Friday, October 3 on Fulton Street and… - Brass Tasks
In Lafayette’s slumping indie rock scene, young band Brass Bed is a decent size fish getting bigger and bigger in a… - Goin' Back to Gretna
The Gretna Heritage Festival takes place the first weekend of October starting at 4 p.m. Friday, October 3 and at 2… - It's All in the Game
Who knew that Lakeside Mall would be such an influential place in a young boy’s life? Well, Will Gilbert, one-fourth of… - From France to Frenchmen Street
When the French twin brothers Francois and Louis Moutin were growing up in Paris, one of the games they engaged in… - The Voice of Urgency
Security backed us up. “A band’s going to be coming through here.” As if people wouldn’t think to get out of…
Letters
- October 2008 Letters
THE GRAVY I just had to let you know, I made Irma’s [Irma Thomas] macaroni and cheese last night for a…
Mojo Mouth
- Trying to Find the Words
By this time of year, business is usually picking up from the summer doldrums. But not this year. Two hurricanes kicked…
Obituaries
- Obituary: Earl Palmer (1924-2008)
Earl Palmer, the most influential and reportedly the most recorded drummer of the 20th Century, died September 19 at his home… - Obituary: George Davis (1938-2008)
Renowned New Orleans session musician, composer, and label owner George Davis died September 10, 2008, from heart failure at Lilburn, Georgia.…
OffBeat Eats
- Dining Out: Café Minh
New Orleans cuisine has repeated instances of ethnic populations using traditional techniques and local ingredients to produce fantastic results. One of…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: Café Minh
New Orleans cuisine has repeated instances of ethnic populations using traditional techniques and local ingredients to produce fantastic results. One of…
Reviews
- 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… - Carla Bley Big Band, Appearing Nightly (Watt)
The centerpiece of Appearing Nightly, Carla Bley’s live big band album, is “Appearing Nightly at the Black Orchid.” The 25-minute-long piece… - The Replacements, All Shook Down (Sire/Rhino)
Rhino Records completes its reissue of the Replacements catalogue with the four albums recorded for Sire: Tim, Pleased to Meet Me,… - Fight the Big Bull, Dying will be Easy (Numero Group)
Matt White leads Fight the Big Bull, an adventurous nonet from Richmond, Virginia. His compositions draw from a host of jazz… - Charlie Haden Family and Friends, Rambling Boy (Decca)
By now, the story’s been told of bassist Charlie Haden’s return to the folk and bluegrass music he grew up playing… - Sugarland, Love on the Inside (Mercury)
Nashville is the last place where anybody over 18 is trying to make music for the masses, and Sugarland fits right… - Grayson Capps, Rot 'n' Roll (Hyena)
Early in this rural travelogue of an album, Grayson Capps finds an arrowhead in the dirt and makes you care about… - The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire, The 1970 NYC Concert (fieldrecorder.com)
There are more live recordings of the Balfa Brothers out there than most people realize, and it’s always a grand day… - Riccardo Crespo, Milonga of New Orleans (Independent)
As daunting as it may be to be an American and try to decipher this latest piece of international music full… - Mitch Woods, Jukebox Drive (El Toro)
There is a road, call it the blues highway, that takes you through the classic tropes of swing and boogie woogie… - Thou, Tyrant (Gilead Media)
I spun Tyrant while reading Jerry Bledsoe’s Blood Games, a hurtfully true story of three boys, two with startlingly high IQs,… - Coco Robicheaux, Like I Said, Yeah, U Rite!: The Techneaux Swamp Sessions (Independent)
You're liable to see Curtis Arceneaux a.k.a. Coco Robicheaux on Frenchman Street anytime, surveying the passersby while nursing a robusto maduro… - Kerry Grombacher, It Sings in the Hi-Line (Independent)
There’s something naturally curious about a city guy singing western music in Ian Tyson’s mold. Kerry Grombacher sings about the wide… - The Other Planets, Holiday for Vacationers! (Everything Awesome All The Time) (Attention Spaniel/Ears & Eyes)
What could be more enticing than an electric carnival spanning the dimensions of space rock and progressive jazz? On their third… - The Zydepunks, Finisterre (Independent)
The Zydepunks are one of the signature bands of the postmillennial New Orleans rock scene, a movement that started before Katrina… - The Pfister Sisters, Puttin' It On (Mambo Goddess)
Let’s start with what would ordinarily be the fourth or fifth paragraph in a review of this kind: The version of… - Ballzack, Yeah Indeed (Independent)
“Pack your lunch and permission slip / we fixin’ to go on a West Bank field trip,” raps Ballzack on his… - The Iguanas, If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times (Yep Roc)
When it comes to the Iguanas, patience is a virtue. With If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times, the New…
