Top 5 Newsworthy Critters

December 2015

Top 5 Newsworthy Critters

5. BAYOU ALLIGATOR Various news outlets reported sightings of a few 3 to 4 foot-long gators in Bayou St. John over the summer. One news outlet said they had reports of a man...

Andrew Mullins III

November 2015

Fresh Prints: NOCAZ Inspires the Next Generation of Publishers

During the first New Orleans Comics and Zines Festival last year—NOCAZ for short—organizer Erin Wilson surveyed the lines of tables with neat stacks of self- published comics...

Andrew Mullins III

November 2015

Ghost, Live at the Civic: Gentle Satan

It’s a tossup whether the Ghost show at the Civic Theatre more resembled a medieval dark mass or a new age Satanic youth retreat. Perhaps it was both, and the band conjured a...

Andrew Mullins III

October 2015

Top Guns: Antigravity’s Best of the Best for Voodoo 2015

The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience is once again upon us, requesting permission to buzz the hallowed oaks of City Park. It’s a magical time of year, bringing boundless joy to...

Andrew Mullins III, Erin Hall, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda, Morgan Lawrence

October 2015

Have You Checked the Children? Digesting “Guignol: A Tale of Escalating Horror”

Each Halloween, Brett Schwaner locks himself in his house and grabs a horror story off of the bookshelf. It might be a volume of the Walking Dead, a short story by H.P. Lovecraft,...

Andrew Mullins III

October 2015

Reviews, October 2015

ANN PEEBLES GREATEST HITS (HI RECORDS/FAT POSSUM) With the Hi Rhythm Section backing her up, Ann Peebles released seven albums for Hi Records over the course of the 1970s. While...

Andrew Mullins III, Bill Heintz, Carl Elvers, Holly Devon, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Robert Landry

September 2015

Reviews, September 2015

Books KATRINA: AFTER THE FLOOD GARY RIVLIN (SIMON & SCHUSTER) Put Douglas Brinkley’s The Great Deluge (published in 2006) and Gary Rivlin’s Katrina side by side. Deluge,...

Andrew Mullins III, Holly Devon, Jenn Attaway, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman

September 2015

Raekwon and Ghostface Killa, Live at the House of Blues: Living History

Two decades have passed since the Wu- Tang Clan’s dynamic duo of Raekwon and Ghostface Killah released their classic album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Technically released as a...

Andrew Mullins III

June 2015

All Out of Enemies: Slipknot Live! At Champion’s Square

I saw Slipknot 16 years too late. They played in Champion’s Square with Hatebreed a month ago, and put on the spectacle my eternal angsty skater kid had only read about in...

Andrew Mullins III

March 2015

BUKU 4 U: AG Writers’ Picks

Parrotheads and classic rockers stand down: this is not your AARP convention, ‘90s glory days revival, camp-chair army jamstival. The BUKU Music + Art Project, now in its fourth...

Alex Taylor, Andrew Mullins III, Kate Russell

January 2015

Reviews, January ’15

Books THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ SCENE 1970-2000: A PERSONAL RETROSPECTIVE THOMAS W. JACOBSEN (LSU PRESS) Jazz music is New Orleans’ artistic tributary that runs into the...

Alex Taylor, Andrew Mullins III, Carl Elvers, Dan Fox, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Robert Landry

September 2014

Don’t Tell Bass Drum of Death What to Do

In early October, Bass Drum of Death releases its third album, Rip This, on L.A.- based label Innovative Leisure. After years of constant touring, along with producing two albums...

Andrew Mullins III