Music
Creole String Beans, Shrimp Boots and Vintage Suits (Threadhead Records)
Really, is there more to life than Shrimp Boots and Vintage Suits? The shrimp boots, a symbol of life here on the Gulf of Mexico, sum up that rocking Gulf […]
Eric Lindell, West County Drifter (M.C. Records)
A natural talent with a knack for penning vintage gems that harken back to the golden era of R&B, Eric Lindell is in top form on West County Drifter. After […]
Rosie Ledet, Come Get Some (JSP Records)
Come Get Some what? It’s a Rosie Ledet CD, so what’d’ya think? Sex, of course. Or, more precisely, decidedly female zydeco soul filled with double entendres and lots of hip-shaking […]
Lyrikill, More Heart More Sole (Elevated Minds Records)
Tennis shoes and hip-hop have been indelibly linked over the past 25 years. There isn’t a single rap album that doesn’t reference at least one pair of kicks as a […]
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV (Young Money/Universal Records)
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards had its highest rating in network history when it aired on August 28. That means more people than ever watched Beyonce’s baby bump. More […]
Thomas and the People, Beneath the Trees (Independent)
Exceptional lyricist and incomparable guitarist Thomas Johnson, the gravelly-voiced leader of Thomas and the People, is an explorer and a soul-searcher whose sound veers between the lo-fi folk of Iron […]
John Sinclair and His International Blues Scholars, Let’s Go Get ‘Em (Mo-Sounds)
Even though he is an expatriate, John Sinclair should be declared a national treasure. He’s a poet, historian and musicologist who, instead of publishing his research and findings, declaims them […]
John Sinclair & Hollow Bones, Honoring the Local Gods (Straw2Gold Records)
Even though he is an expatriate, John Sinclair should be declared a national treasure. He’s a poet, historian and musicologist who, instead of publishing his research and findings, declaims them […]
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 […]
Trombone Shorty, For True (Verve Records)
Five years ago, a lot of people were wondering what the brightest young star of New Orleans music, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, was going to do next. Music industry insiders […]
