May 2014 Guidance Counseling: Red Fang For this month’s advice we’re tapping Portland metalheads Red Fang, who just dropped Whales and Leeches (produced by Chris Funk of the Decemberists) on Relapse Records. Chunky... Guidance Counseling
April 2014 Guidance Counseling: Sirens On April 18th at Gasa Gasa, Kimberly Vice and Michelle Ausman—the silky voices of Sirens, will release their first LP Blossom Talk on Community Records along with label owners... Guidance Counseling
March 2014 Guidance Counseling: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Perennial AG favorite and NYC dream-poppers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return to New Orleans this month for the BUKU Music + Art Project (on Saturday, March 22nd). We... Guidance Counseling
February 2014 Guidance Counseling: Ice Balloons Ice Balloons are a collection of Brooklyn musicians, ranging from TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone to what the band bills simply as “a common fly.” Their self-titled album... Guidance Counseling
December 2013 Guidance Counseling: Mike Cooley Mike Cooley is frequently a man of few words. He tends to save his best ones for writing lyrics with his band of 18 years, Drive-by Truckers. But he took the time to answer a few... Guidance Counseling
November 2013 Guidance Counseling: Eric Andre Eric Andre is not a stable human being. Watch a few minutes of his late night talk show on Adult Swim (produced by the same folks who birthed the bizarre Tim & Eric Awesome... Guidance Counseling
October 2013 Guidance Counseling: Guantanamo Baywatch If you projected Repo Man onto the same screen as Point Break, you might get a whiff of what Portland’s Guantanamo Baywatch is all about. Not only did they hit the band name... Guidance Counseling
July 2013 Guidance Counseling: Buzz Osborne of the Melvins Look, if you need some kind of introduction to Buzz Osborne— a.k.a. King Buzz— you’re beyond help. As one of the founding members of rock’s most original, influential,... Guidance Counseling
June 2013 Guidance Counseling: Generationals With their 2009 Park the Van debut album Con Law, Generationals (Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner) ushered in a boom for local indie rockers scratching their way to national... Guidance Counseling
May 2013 Guidance Counseling: MC Trachiotomy MC Trachiotomy is one of New Orleans’ most notorious noise gangsters, saloon keeps and sender of sound men to asylums, so he’s the perfect host for the International... Guidance Counseling
March 2013 Guidance Counseling: Alynda Lee Segarra Alynda Lee Segarra is the soft-spoken but powerful, creative voice of Hurray for the Riff Raff, one of New Orleans’ most promising homegrown acts. They’ve been steadily... Guidance Counseling
February 2013 Guidance Counseling: The Pink Slips There’s always that one special moment during certain Mardi Gras parades when a band float passes by and surprise! It’s not some lukewarm Dixieland cheez or the Air Force... Guidance Counseling
