December 2017

WRITING FOR TWO

END OF THE ROAD Chances are that as you read this column, I am holding my newborn child. As I sit here composing it, our due date is less than three weeks away and we’re...

Erin Hall

November 2017

WRITING FOR TWO

GONE TO THE DOGS Welcome back to the final countdown! As this issue debuts, I’m hitting the 36 week mark of my pregnancy—a mere four weeks away from the expected delivery...

Erin Hall

October 2017

WRITING FOR TWO

ROUNDING THIRD I have no idea how, but here we are—the third trimester, the home stretch. When this issue hits the stands, I’ll be approaching week 31 of my pregnancy (the...

Erin Hall

October 2017

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION: ANTIGRAVITY PICKS FOR THE 2017 VOODOO MUSIC + ARTS EXPERIENCE

Now in its 18th year, The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience is one of the major draws of Halloween weekend in New Orleans. Taking place under the stately oaks of City Park, it has...

Brandon Lattimore, Erin Hall, Holly Hobbs, Joey Laura, Morgan Lawrence

September 2017

WRITING FOR TWO

SIZE MATTERS I’ve never been a small girl. Unless you count literal infancy through age six or so. Otherwise, I’ve always been taller, broader, and just plain bigger than...

Erin Hall

July 2017

WRITING FOR TWO: TIME TO GET CRUNCHY

Hello again. Welcome back to the Wonderful World of My Uterus. Things are moving right along and, as this issue debuts, I am at 18 weeks (food reference: a bell pepper), just two...

Erin Hall

June 2017

WRITING FOR TWO:FRUIT OF THE WOMB

My life has changed a lot in the last year. I got engaged to my boyfriend of ten years. I quit a job I honestly thought I’d never leave. I left the marketing industry and became...

Erin Hall

May 2017

REVIEWS

BOY HARSHER YR BODY IS NOTHING (DKA) Missing their February Mudlark appearance, yet seeing their shared bill with High Functioning Flesh (one of my favorite acts) later in the...

Ben Miotke, Dan McCoy, Emily Elhaj, Erin Hall, Kelly McClure, Travis Bird

February 2017

VALERIE JUNE “SERVANT TO THE SONG”

The Americana scene has steadily grown in prominence over the last decade, taking the banjo and fiddle from the fringes of popular culture and plopping it down right in the middle...

Erin Hall

November 2016

BACK PORCH PARADOX: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE “LIBERAL REDNECK” TRAE CROWDER

I’ve known for years that I couldn’t be alone: an unbridled love for my Southern roots, nestled alongside the dread I feel entering my parents’ home to hear Bill O’Reilly...

Erin Hall

October 2016

SELL YOUR SOUL (OR SAVE IT): ANTIGRAVITY PICKS FOR VOODOO 2016

From the disco-meets-devil worship of GHOST to the redemptive, soulful wails of Charles Bradley, this year’s Voodoo Music + Arts Experience promises to be another religious...

Andrew Mullins III, Erin Hall, Holly Hobbs, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda, Morgan Lawrence

June 2016

Reviews

MUSIC JAMES BLAKE THE COLOUR IN ANYTHING (POLYDOR) “I can’t believe this, you don’t wanna see me,” croons the refrain, amid spectral moans and piano chords. From...

Ben DL, Brooke Schueller, Corey Cruse, Dan Fox, Dan McCoy, Erin Hall, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda, Maeve Holler, William Archambeault