June 2014

Real Talk: Memorable Moments from Antigravity’s First Ten Years

AG has been privileged to speak with a lot of artists over the past 10 years and have them tell us their stories. Here are some of the most memorable moments as rendered by Osa...

Aaron Santos, Adele Hunt, Andy Gibbs, Brett Schwaner, Bryan Funck, Dan Fox, Derek, Dominique LeJeune, Dorian Commode, Erin Hall, Gabe Soria, Gary Mader, Jason Songe, Jenn Attaway, Jules Bentley, Kate Russell, Kevin Barrios, Leigh Checkman, Leo McGovern, M. Bevis, Marty Garner, Michael Patrick Welch, Miles Britton, Osa Atoe, Rev. Dan Jackson, Robert Offner, Sara Pic, Skwirl

December 2012

Extra-Curricular Album Reviews

Since Katrina I’ve taught, after school, “an English class disguised as a music class.” My students write song lyrics as a way to improve their literacy. It’s not unlike...

Michael Patrick Welch, Some People

December 2012

Bringing Down the Jazz Party with Dash Rip Rock

Wildman Louisiana guitarist and songwriter Bill Davis has toured his ever-loving ass off with some version or another of his pioneering cowpunk band Dash Rip Rock for some 28...

Michael Patrick Welch

November 2012

Growing Up Fast with the Bywater Boys

Often, when driving up Chartres Street in Bywater at night, across from Elizabeth’s restaurant, you will see the silhouette of a young boy pounding a drum kit beneath the...

Michael Patrick Welch

June 2012

House of Sound: A Look Back from the Music Box Family

The musical art installation “Dithyrambalina” (or “Music Box”) started as a cardboard model of an ornate house, built by New York street artist Callie Curry, aka Swoon....

Michael Patrick Welch

June 2012

Sparks Fly with Rob Cambre and Thurston Moore

If you weren’t a subtle person, you might think of noisy, improvisation-oriented guitarist Rob Cambre as the “Thurston Moore of New Orleans.” For one thing, Cambre has the...

Michael Patrick Welch

April 2012

Ian Svenonius Just Doesn’t Like Anything Important

Ian Svenonius was the last musical character of the pre-internet, Washington D.C-Dischord Records era to sneak a seat at the table of legendary front-men, beside Fugazi’s Ian...

Michael Patrick Welch

March 2012

Lucky Lou

Jermy Tassin from the Magnolia Projects evolved to become LuckyLou, a 25-year-old rapper, dancer and community leader. For the past two and a half years Tassin, with his own big...

Michael Patrick Welch