FRIDAY The chair people have taken over the field. Today they were nice and let me walk on their tarps. By Sunday tribal warfare will be rampant. Alliances will be broken....
WEDNESDAY I’m not used to being up this early; it always makes me feel like I have to go to a court hearing. Or a hospital. Luckily, this wake-up call involves neither and our...
Technically, Hangout Music Fest––which takes place in May on the sugary sands of Gulf Shores, Alabama––is still in its infancy. Compared to veteran behemoths like...
Love is a many-splendored thing, sometimes involving clowns and computers. Or maybe that’s just sex. Or, possibly—could it be both? The Elm Theatre explores love in the time...
The transition from the dusty oval of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival into Not Enough Fest’s reverse-engineered DIY culture showcase was swift and came with an...
It was a long, winding and sometimes patience-testing road as Not Enough Fest debuted a handful of new bands, but the payoff was huge when Spring Break-up hit the...
Jeff Hanneman January 31, 1964 – May 2, 2013 I found out on the evening of Thursday, May 2nd, that Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and founding member of Slayer, had died of liver...
Back in the ‘80s, there was hardcore punk and there was speed metal. Then something happened: bands began to throw genre restrictions out the window and experiment with a...
In the beginning there was Pizza. Right after the hurricane, when the people of New Orleans big banged all over the country, new little planets started popping up all over...
