August 2014

Reviews, August 2014

Books MARC SPITZ TWEE: THE GENTLE REVOLUTION IN MUSIC, BOOKS, TELEVISION, FASHION, AND  FILM (IT BOOKS) A critical look at the cultural trends that inform the creation of Wes...

Alex Taylor, Dan Fox, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

June 2014

A Decade of Deadlines : Celebrating and Commiserating with 10 Years of Anti-friends

To put into perspective what life was like in 2004, when Antigravity was launched, here are a few realities the people of New Orleans knew: TwiRoPa was a live and functioning club...

Adrienne Battistella, Alex Woodward, Alison Fensterstock, Bernard Pearce, Brett Schwaner, Dan Fox, Derek, Dirk Fontenot, Erin Hall, Gary LoVerde, Jason Songe, Jenn Attaway, Joshua Brasted, Jules Bentley, Kevin Barrios, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Leo McGovern, M. Bevis, Mike Rodgers, Musa Alves, Noah Bonaparte, Patrick Strange, Robert Offner, Sara Pic, Skwirl, Zack Smith

May 2014

Reviews, May 2014

Books   AMY WUELFING,  STEVEN DILODOVICO NO  SLAM DANCING, NO  STAGE DIVING, NO  SPIKES: AN  ORAL HISTORY OF THE LEGENDARY CITY GARDENS (DIWULF PUBLISHING) To create a...

Alex Taylor, Anna Gaca, Brandon Lattimore, Leigh Checkman, Lou Thevenot, Mike Rodgers

January 2014

Reviews, January 2014

Books ERIN K. WILSON SNOWBIRD: BOOK ONE (SELF-PUBLISHED) The premise of the graphic novel Snowbird has all the makings of a disaster: a jane-come-lately do-gooder  drops in on...

Carl Elvers, Dan Fox, Jenn Attaway, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

December 2013

Reviews, December 2013

Books P. CURRAN NAUGHT  BUT A SHADOW: A NOVEL OF THE OCCULT (CADIZ & CADIZN’T) Written before author P. Curran’s sublime Stay Out Of New Orleans, yet published after that...

Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

November 2013

Reviews, November 2013

Books RAY DAVIES AMERICANA:  THE KINKS,  THE RIFF, THE ROAD: THE STORY (STERLING) Ray Davies has made a career out of a vaudevillian sensibility for mining the lives of various...

Anna Gaca, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

October 2013

Reviews, October 2013

BANTAM  FOXES TRIUMPH (INDEPENDENT) To pigeonhole the music of Bantam Foxes into a niche known as ‘90s rock is to miss how far brothers Sam and Collin McCabe, in league with...

Anna Gaca, Christie Sentner, Jenn Attaway, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

September 2013

Reviews, September 2013

  ALEX CHILTON ELECTRICITY BY CANDLELIGHT/ NYC 2/13/97 (BAR/NONE) One February night at New York City’s Knitting Factory, the power went out. An Alex Chilton solo...

Anna Gaca, Jenn Attaway, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

August 2013

Reviews, August 2013

Books JENNIFER KEISHIN ARMSTRONG MARY AND  LOU AND  RHODA  AND  TED: AND  ALL THE BRILLIANT MINDS  WHO MADE THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW  A CLASSIC (SIMON AND  SCHUSTER)...

Carl Elvers, Erin Hall, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers

April 2013

Reviews, April 2013

Books VINCENT A. CELLUCCI, ED. FUCK POEMS: AN EXCEPTIONAL ANTHOLOGY (LAVENDER INK) It’s amazing, the capacity that one word can still have to shock, to titillate, to hint at the...

Erin Hall, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers, Rev. Dan Jackson

March 2013

Reviews, March 2013

Books MARK LAFLAUR ELYSIAN FIELDS (MID-CITY) Kicking off a book with a catastrophe-in-the-making is risky business. In the case of Mark LaFlaur’s Elysian Fields, it casts a pall...

Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers, Rev. Dan Jackson

February 2013

Reviews, February 2013

Books ALAN LIGHT THE HOLY OR THE BROKEN: LEONARD COHEN, JEFF BUCKLEY, & THE UNLIKELY ASCENT OF “HALLELUJAH” (ATRIA BOOKS) It still maintains a hold on us, this song of...

Dominique LeJeune, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Mike Rodgers, Rev. Dan Jackson