September 2025 SOUND CHECK Mack Major Mack Major was built to be an audio engineer. His calm, affable, unassuming demeanor allows recording artists to take up lots of space in the room while he deftly and... Sabrina Stone
July 2025 SOUND CHECK Laura Fisher Laura Fisher’s apartment is filled with artwork and instruments. Every square inch displays a keyboard or a watercolor. Even the backyard lizards consistently come... Sabrina Stone
June 2025 SOUND CHECK Bryant Watson Bryant Watson has always had a strong desire to share his music with the world. When he was 10 years old, his father, Anthony Watson Sr. (an accomplished musician... Sabrina Stone
May 2025 SOUND CHECK Kendall Burke a.k.a. Warm Advice Kendall Burke is an extraordinarily can-do human. In the two weeks we were in touch for this article, she drove back and forth from Pensacola to... Sabrina Stone
April 2025 SOUND CHECK Ryan “Shaggadelic” Batiste Ryan Batiste, known as the artist Shaggadelic, was born into a classic New Orleans multi-generational musician family. With a funk-playing father... Sabrina Stone
February 2025 SOUND CHECK Dreux Gerard Dreux Gerard has the quiet soul of an introverted engineer, which you might never guess seeing him on stage, playing guitar and confidently fronting his self-titled... Sabrina Stone
December 2024 SOUND CHECK JULIAN PRIMEAUX Like many a Louisiana native, Julian Primeaux grew up in a musical family and began playing his instrument, in earnest, around the age of eight. He was performing... Sabrina Stone
December 2024 REVIEWS ... Dan Fox, Erin Hall, Mary Beth Campbell, Nijah Narcisse, Sabrina Stone, Steven Melendez, Veronica Cross, William Archambeault
November 2024 SOUND CHECK MICHELLE HANKS Michelle Hanks came to music somewhat late in life. Though she’d always been a visual artist and loved to sing, it took until 2017, a year of major personal... Sabrina Stone
September 2024 SOUND CHECK SIMON LOTT Simon Lott was born and raised in Louisiana, though watching him perform puts his Earthling status into question. By incorporating dozens of genres and unusual hardware... Sabrina Stone
August 2024 REVIEWS ... Bryan Funck, Erin Hall, Mary Beth Campbell, Sabrina Stone, Sara Nicole Storm, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault
July 2024 SOUND CHECK Brendan Pechon Dohm Collective Nine years ago, Brendan Pechon turned a dream, a love of live music, a bunch of metal poles, short bolts, and a few armfuls of dollar store shower... Sabrina Stone
