Hang Out 1 on 1: The Weeks

June 2013

Hang Out 1 on 1: The Weeks

“As for our places in history, we will run nakedthrough your streets before we sit decorated inyour halls,” The Weeks’ Tumblr proclaims. The five-piece band from Jackson,...

Kate Russell

June 2013

Hang Out 1 on 1: Ryan Bingham

When Ryan Bingham first toured, he and then-band Dead Horses weren’t sure they’d make it to the next gas station in their wheezing Suburban. Those hard-up times are long...

Kate Russell

May 2013

Postcards from JazzFest — Weekend One

FRIDAY The chair people have taken over the field. Today they were nice and let me walk on their tarps. By Sunday tribal warfare will be rampant. Alliances will be broken....

Dan Fox, Kate Russell, Sara Pic

May 2013

Gulf Jams: AG’s picks for Hangout 2013

Technically, Hangout Music Fest––which takes place in May on the sugary sands of Gulf Shores, Alabama––is still in its infancy. Compared to veteran behemoths like...

Erin Hall, Kate Russell

April 2013

Goodie Basket: AG Writers Pick a Bountiful Bushel at This Year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Break out the wide-brimmed hats, the sunscreen and the boogie. While hordes of old dudes from Maine descend upon us clothed in short-sleeved button downs emblazoned with...

Anton Falcone, Dan Fox, Erin Hall, Kate Russell, Kevin Barrios, Leigh Checkman, Rev. Dan Jackson, Sara Pic

April 2013

You Can Sit When You’re Dead: An Open Letter to JazzFest Squatters

What Jazz Fest means to me is the dawning of summer, when the sun comes out and chases away the winter blues, two weeks of perfect weather, before the heat onslaught. Jazz Fest...

Kate Russell

March 2013

Blight Meets Bass: BUKU Year Two

Some people might look at the dilapidated portion of the Lower Garden District and say, “Bulldoze.” Winter Circle Productions said “BUKU.” Tulane graduates Reeves Price...

Kate Russell

December 2012

We Don’t Know; Therefore, Party: Crossing our Fingers with the Cosmic Convergence Festival

Fire? Floods? Earthquakes? Asteroids? What does December 21st, 2012 really mean? Surprisingly, for Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the answer is not aliens. If you don’t recognize...

Kate Russell