June 2026 MY SPILT MILK “Best of” Lists: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The New York Times must have anticipated the shitstorm that “The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” article would... Alex Rawls
May 2026 MY SPILT MILK Can You Be Better Than Ezra? In February, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra announced the creation of Soundbreak, an AI site that allows aspiring songwriters and artists to... Alex Rawls
April 2026 MY SPILT MILK Here, There and Everywhere with The Junior League Thoughts on The Junior League almost always have to start with The Beatles. The Junior League’s songwriter, singer, and sole... Alex Rawls
March 2026 REVIEWS ... Alex Rawls, Dalton Spangler, Danny Cherry Jr., Erin Hall, Eva Karl, Mary Beth Campbell, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault
March 2026 MY SPILT MILK Folk AI Commercials during the Super Bowl presented one vision of artificial intelligence (AI). The Genspark ad gave us AI as a tool that could speed up the cubicle warriors’... Alex Rawls
February 2026 REVIEWS ... Alex Rawls, Carlos A. Molina, Dalton Spangler, Danny Cherry Jr., Erin Hall, Holly Devon, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Steven Melendez, Zain Hashmat
February 2026 MY SPILT MILK Alone, Together with Lisbon Girls Lisbon Girls sell heartache. The band signals its mission by taking their name from the sisters who gave Jeffrey Eugenides’ book The Virgin... Alex Rawls
January 2026 MY SPILT MILK A Cloudy Forecast for Festival Season It’s easy to process music festivals in aesthetic terms (does the lineup look good?) but as the last month in Gulf South festival news... Alex Rawls
December 2025 MY SPILT MILK AI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Music industry critic Bob Lefsetz adopted a radically moderate posture when he wrote in a recent newsletter, “Can we all just agree that AI in... Alex Rawls
November 2025 MY SPILT MILK The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Finds the Sweet Spot The only time guitarist Larry Carlton looked a little bored came when he played the song everybody came for. His show... Alex Rawls
October 2025 MY SPILT MILK The LPO Goes Indie City orchestras across America share a problem. People think classical music is a good thing, but that doesn’t mean they’ll pay to see it in the numbers... Alex Rawls
September 2025 MY SPILT MILK Arcade Fire’s New Orleans Years Arcade Fire’s Pink Elephant has come and gone with little more than a half-hearted Saturday Night Live appearance to show for it. Pink Elephant... Alex Rawls
