Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
A violinist and singer-songwriter from New Orleans via Sweden, Theresa Andersson expands her folky sound into a rich sonic tapestry on Hummingbird, Go! Read story.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Piano-based blues suffered at the pyrotechnic hands of B.B. King and Eric Clapton, but Lafayette’s David Egan reminds us that piano keys are for pounding out the blues. Read story.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Peering through the eyes of Baton Rouge’s Barisal Guns, you would see a landscape dotted with houses of the holy and ensconced in smoke on the water. Read story.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Ska offers a number of opportunities that other brands of music don’t. Read story.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Despite having an oversized live band featuring accordions, glockenspiels and whatnot, Cohen Hartman shows admirable restraint on his album, Paper Moon, dotting his songs with slight percussion (“Ghost” utilizes a rattled chain), swooning backup vocals and homey banjos. Read story.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
On the second Harlan album, Spiderette, songwriter John Norris—who recorded debut The Still Beat on his own—enlists the help of his live band. Read story.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Performing Celtic music is tricky business. Read story.
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Bones is all about two things: a slap and a warm sensation. Read story.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
‘I can’t think of anything that isn’t universal in this world,” singer-songwriter Bill Callahan says about the myriad of subjects that find their way into his beguiling songs. Read story.
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
The qualifying factors of a great record are not tallied sales and moved units, but in the way they latch onto a listener and linger when the disc is over, and these are the top five that did it for me this year. Read story.
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007
With the exploding popularity of YouTube in 2007, it is a little surprising that shaky live clips still outnumber directed and edited music videos by such a wide margin among local artists given the free promotion the video site affords. Read story.
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007
Do not dismiss Hi-Five as a Green Day mall-punk outfit based solely on their somewhat adolescent name. Read story.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007
Saturday and Sunday at the annual New Orleans festival Read story.
Friday, Sept. 28, 2007
With the lead single “Whose God?” off new album Dust, Benjy Davis Project enters the small modern fray of pop music protesting the war in Iraq. Read story.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
The Capital City septet Secret Annexe has emerged with a more streamlined sound on their second CD, appropriately named Seven Headed Monster. Read story.
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