May 2024 SOUND CHECK KYLE ROUSSEL At the age of 35, Kyle Roussel has already been performing on the keys for two decades. He plays everywhere and every time he gets the chance: in hospitals, nursing... Sabrina Stone
May 2024 Guts Fest On a sunny Saturday afternoon at Parisite Skatepark, the inaugural Guts Fest kicked off this past 4/20 with a dozen bands. Ded Debbie opened, full throttle, with their drummer... Sabrina Stone
April 2024 SOUND CHECK Ben Epstein Ben Epstein is the owner of NOLA Mix Records at 1522 Magazine Street. He curates a quirky in-store exhibit lovingly called the “Museum of Mediocre Art (MoMA).” As... Sabrina Stone
March 2024 “Gumbo Botanica”: A Teaching Mural Driving down St. Claude or up Elysian Fields, you can’t miss the brand new, 5,000-square-foot, rainbow-hued “Gumbo Botanica” triple mural. With pastel portraits of local... Sabrina Stone
February 2024 SOUND CHECK DARBY CICCI This Sound Check is brought to you from the distant lands of east-central Alabama, where I’m in Auburn, the hometown of digital engineering nomad Darby Cicci. Cicci... Sabrina Stone
January 2024 SOUND CHECK MELISSA GUION Equal parts eerie, industrial, and hypnotic, the layered sounds of MJ Guider create an insular world. But Melissa Guion is more than her solo project. She played... Sabrina Stone
December 2023 SOUND CHECK LINDSEY BAKER Lindsey Baker fronts Guts Club, a band with a heavy, doomy, guttural sound. Everyone in Guts Club is 5’3’’ and powerfully loud. They wear suits and boots and... Sabrina Stone
November 2023 REVIEWS ... Kevin Barrios, Mary Beth Campbell, Sabrina Stone, Steven Melendez, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault, Zane Piontek
November 2023 SOUND CHECK Travis Marc Travis Marc is our column’s first SAMA (South African Music Awards) nominated artist. He’s had songs syndicated on South African radio and BBC Television, and... Sabrina Stone
October 2023 SOUND CHECK Zora Lucent Moving on from years of performing with complex hardware, Nora Jane Messerich, a.k.a. Zora Lucent, has plunged into the software universe and designed a whole world of... Sabrina Stone
September 2023 SOUND CHECK Rev. Robert Sinewave Calling all vinyl nerds, crate-diggers, wax heads, and discophiles! Geoffrey Wilson a.k.a. Rev. Robert Sinewave is a music obsessive but has no music gear,... Sabrina Stone
July 2023 SOUND CHECK Jeremy Phipps Jeremy Phipps, through his band People Museum (together with Claire Givens and Aaron Boudreaux), has created a sound that you don’t really hear anywhere in New... Sabrina Stone
