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
July 2025 MY SPILT MILK Esther Rose’s Therapy Album In the first lines of “Want,” the title track from Esther Rose’s new album, she sings, “I want to live in the desert and bake in the sun / I... Alex Rawls
June 2025 My Spilt Milk: Jazz Fest at the Crossroads One of the stories to come out after the conclusion of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell was the decline in attendance this year. Keith Spera of... Alex Rawls
May 2025 My Spilt Milk: Sarah Quintana’s Chorus of Inner Voices Look at the song list for Sarah Quintana’s new album Baby Don’t, and it’s easy to think you’ve been here before. The first track is “Laisse le Bon Temps Rouler,” and... Alex Rawls
April 2025 MY SPILT MILK A New Orleans Alternate Reality (Dub Version) While listening to the new Dub Syndicate reissue series, an alternate history occurred to me. Dub Syndicate was a collaboration... Alex Rawls
March 2025 MY SPILT MILK Perfect Strangers: The Making of Emily Mikesell & Kate Campbell Strauss’ Give Way We romantically think about jazz as three, four or more musicians coming together in a... Alex Rawls
February 2025 MY SPILT MILK The Highs, Lows, and Mehs of the 2025 Jazz Fest Lineup Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Luke Combs, Lil Wayne & The Roots, Lenny Kravitz, Kacey Musgraves. That’s the top line... Alex Rawls
December 2024 MY SPILT MILK This month ANTIGRAVITY welcomes longtime journalist, editor, and Christmas music aficionado Alex Rawls into our pages with selections from myspiltmilk.com, Rawls’ website... Alex Rawls