Music
Lil Pookie & the Zydeco Sensations, Just Want to be Me (Maison de Soul Records)
Lil Pookie’s first release in more than a decade not only represents the comeback of a former child prodigy but a renewed sense of vigor for a talented front man. […]
Galactic, The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans (Anti- Records)
This is Galactic’s first official live album in a decade, though countless board tapes and CD-Rs have crossed fans’ hands in the interim. As it turned out, 2001’s We Love […]
Tab Benoit, Medicine (Telarc Records)
Almost nobody can beat Tab Benoit for playing raw, dirty-sounding roadhouse blues. There is something about when he gets to rocking that gets everybody going in the way the best […]
Quintron, Sucre du Sauvage (Goner Records)
Quintron and Miss Pussycat put their creative lives on display at NOMA earlier this year in the show, “Parallel Universe.” She displayed her puppets, photos and videotapes, while Quintron set […]
Tim Laughlin featuring Connie Jones, If Dreams Come True (Gentilly Records)
During the summer of 2010, clarinetist Tim Laughlin asked cornetist Connie Jones to imagine a “dream band”. The list included—among others—John Sheridan on piano, Ed Wise on bass, Danny Coots […]
Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground, Wishes (Hypersoul Records)
In the two years since the release of her debut, Musical Playground, Sasha Masakowski has blossomed from a fresh-faced song girl into an enchanting songstress. The 24-year-old vocalist’s follow-up, Wishes, […]
Amédé Ardoin, Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amédé Ardoin (Tompkins Square Records)
There’s some deep irony in the title. Anyone up on the Cajun-Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana knows that these sounds, recorded between 1929 and 1934, are anything but gone, […]
Dee-1, I Hope They Hear Me Vol. 2 (mixtape)
A lot has changed in the year since Dee-1 released his last mixtape I Hope They Hear Me Vol. 1. He’s become one of the hottest underground acts and his […]
Jesse Legé, Joel Savoy and the Cajun Country Revival, The Right Combination (Valcour Records)
Joel Savoy has become a central figure in the Acadian Uprising, a second wave of young revivalists coming to the forefront of Cajun music culture in the first decade of […]
Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Almost Native (Threadhead Records)
A grid of 12 images adorns the cover of Almost Native. It includes a po-boy, a pair of maracas, and the Arc de Triomphe. If that seems too subtle, the […]
