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

March 2017

Reviews

CODE ORANGE FOREVER (ROADRUNNER) When Code Orange signed to Deathwish, I was very impressed to learn that the average age of its members was 18. I began obsessively watching their...

Ben Miotke, Holly Devon, Kelly McClure, Maeve Holler, William Archambeault

February 2017

REVIEWS

CHERRY GLAZERR APOCALIPSTICK (SECRETLY CANADIAN) Apocalipstick—the sprawling second album by L.A.’s divergent pop-punk sweethearts Cherry Glazerr—is an undoubtedly matured...

Ben Miotke, Corey Cruse, Dan McCoy, Emily Elhaj, Kelly McClure, Maeve Holler, Morgan Lawrence, William Archambea

January 2017

TIME STANDING STILL: DOLLY PARTON, LIVE AT THE SMOOTHIE KING CENTER

A problem retrieving my press pass sent me speed walking from the will-call booth to the back of the Smoothie King Center, where I found myself frantically showing my phone to the...

Kelly McClure

January 2017

REVIEWS

CHILDISH GAMBINO “AWAKEN, MY LOVE!” (GLASSNOTE) On “Awaken, My Love!” Childish Gambino—better known as actor and comedian Donald Glover— dives headfirst into...

Alex Taylor, Andrew Mullins III, Brandon Lattimore, Dan McCoy, Kelly McClure, Robert Landry, William Archambeault

December 2016

LOVE vs. FEAR

My wife and I got married in New York just two short years ago in a rented cabin upstate. There, the rings on our fingers meant we were legally and lovingly tied together as one...

Kelly McClure

November 2016

Reviews

CHUPAME EL DEDO S/T (DISCREPANT) From my first visit, Domino Sound Record Shack has consistently exposed me to some fantastically out-there contemporary interpretations of...

Andrew Mullins III, Andru Okun, Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Corey Cruse, Gabby Steib, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda

October 2016

COMFORTING STRANGERS WITH SARAH SILVERMAN

In the not-too-distant past, Sarah Silverman was making news for her comedic memoir about being a bedwetter well into her teens (appropriately titled TheBedwetter), as well as for...

Kelly McClure

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

October 2016

REVIEWS

13 DREAMS POST GOSPEL DISCO (BROTHERS SOMETHING) New Orleans’ 13 Dreams, Justin Batiste and Jesse Zenon, have debuted with a fantastically lush album. While its title Post...

Alan Singleton, Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Carl Elvers, Dan McCoy, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, William Archambeault

September 2016

QUESTIONS ABOUT ALLEGED LESBIAN ACTIVITIES

At the top of this year, the multimedia art and history collective Last Call: the New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project staged several performances, mixing music, clips of audio...

Kelly McClure

September 2016

Reviews

APHEX TWIN CHEETAH (WARP) Richard D. James has certainly been prolific these past few years. Between 2014’s triumphant Syro (the vast archive of previously-unreleased tracks put...

Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Carl Elvers, Corey Cruse, Holly Mohon, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Maeve Holler, Robert Landry, William Archambeault