January 2016

Reviews, January 2016

ADELE 25 (XL) Look, I get it. I’m being played. I’m being pandered to. I am fully aware of it. But I also don’t give a shit. I’m all in on this one: Adele is a magical...

Alex Taylor, Dan Fox, Dan McCoy, Erin Hall, Jenn Attaway, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Nathan Tucker

December 2015

Letter from the Editor: Top 5 Unwritten Intros

If you don’t know this about me already, I’m a sucker for the holidays. Jewish, yes, but still, I dig Christmas. It’s a pretty cozy time of year, and I’m always excited to...

Dan Fox

December 2015

Reviews, December 2015

ADULTS THIS IS OUR YEAR (THIS IS HURRY UP AND WAIT) I have to channel my inner Bryan Funck because I was hoping he’d review this record but dude is so “busy” these days,...

Bryan Funck, Dan Fox, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Michael Bateman, Nathan Tucker

November 2015

Letter From The Editor: What We Are, What We Sell

I’ve been thinking a lot about the cultural narcissism we experience as a city sometimes. You know, the fleur-de-lis everything, or the way a Saints win smothers out every other...

Dan Fox

October 2015

Letter from the Editor: Short and Sweet

At this late night hour, as we wrap up a huge October issue, words don’t come so good to me, so I’ll keep it mercifully  short. Associate Editor and Drummer Extraordinaire...

Dan Fox

September 2015

Letter from the Editor: We Made It

Did you survive the flood… of media coverage, presidential visits, highway closures, special edition snow globes, reflections, and reflections upon reflections that was the...

Dan Fox

August 2015

Letter From the Editor: Wrangling Photographic Cats

Welcome to our third annual photo issue, which we present to you in the most brutal depths of a New Orleans summer. It’s always funny to me how the August AG is a chance for the...

Dan Fox

July 2015

Letter from the Editor: Glover Circle

Last month we ran a piece by activist-artist Mwende Katwiwa (“Confronting Histories Old and New with #BlackSpring ”) which spoke at length about the monuments, street names,...

Dan Fox

June 2015

Letter from the Editor: Still Basically Doing What We Love to Do

Guess what, Antigraviteers? It’s that time of year again, where our June issue marks another trip around the sun for this ol’ magazine. We had our big decade blowout last...

Dan Fox

May 2015

Letter from the Editor: Silver Scream

14 years ago I was fortunate enough to find employment in the Louisiana film industry. It’s under a lot of flak right now because of the tax credit scheme, which may or may not...

Dan Fox

May 2015

Reviews, May 2015

ALABAMA SHAKES SOUND & COLOR (ATO) Alabama Shakes’ 2012 debut Boys & Girls heralded an auspicious beginning for these blues rockers, bringing the raw force of Brittany...

Brandon Lattimore, Carl Elvers, Dan Fox, Joey Laura, Leigh Checkman

April 2015

Little Trouble Girl: reflecting on Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

can you sell me yesterday’s girl? cuz every day feel more like her My girlfriend in college used to wake up every morning to “Becuz,” the lead-off track on Sonic Youth’s...

Dan Fox