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. Each room in the proposed 45 foot house would be a separate music instrument, so that a group of people could theoretically “play the house.” Dithyrambalina’s beta test [...]
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 balls to get up in front of crowds alone with just his guitar, somehow managing to make something huge and fascinating that overshadows the musician, the way [...]
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 MacKaye and H.R. of Bad Brains. Svenonius’ first band, the Nation of Ulysses, combined the noise and politics of MC5 and Public Enemy in a screaming attack that [...]
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 cast of young, positive characters, has been making and performing bounce-influenced New Orleans dance rap that is nonetheless wholesome. Positive but not corny, LuckyLou could [...]