It’s easy to get lost in the heyday of Mardi Gras, especially on Saturday when the whole of Spanish Town becomes one seemingly giant amorphous house party (check with the people in the house before applying this theory) but there are two must-see events this week. Read more...
As I type this, I’m listening to Fred Eaglesmith’s 1987 album Indiana Road, as congenial procession of rural desperation as one can imagine. Read more...
What better way to get a late start on 2012 and celebrate this last year on earth according to the Mayans, than to run down my favorite records of 2011! Read more...
Every year, Baton Rouge surprises me. Just Read more...
If Los Campesinos! didn’t already have an exclamation point in their name, I’d put one anyway. Read more...
The poet e.e. cummings said once “a hellless hell of compulsory heaven on earth is emphatically not my pail of blueberries” and I take that tack with the Beach Boys. Read more...
I am as big a fan of Lou Reed as you can be without requiring methadone treatments, and yet possess a lifelong immunity to the charms of Metallica. Read more...
The world may have finally caught up with DJ Shadow. Read more...
Were I to carve up my musical interests like a pizza, Wilco would get a pretty big slice. Read more...
The Radio Bar is broadcasting online at theradiobar.com. Read more...