Mouthing Off With Madeline
Madeline Adams (also sometimes known as simply “Madeline”) was born and raised in Athens, Georgia, one of America’s most musically rich and innovative cities. So it’s no wonder she’s found herself gripped by a persistent drive to create and perform for over 10 years, despite being relatively young. Her current tour, kicking off in early [...]
The Weirdest Man In Show Business: Gibby Haynes Targets New Orleans
Gibby Haynes is known in music circles for two things: as the lead vocalist-agent-provocateur of the Butthole Surfers and for being an abject madman, a bullhorn-wielding, Rush Limbaugh-taunting, hand-igniting lysergic nightmare. He’s also known as one heck of a nice guy. At times, he personifies the city of Austin, Texas, the place that the Surfers [...]
Roots Music: Jamming with the Plants at the Greenhouse Sessions
Rain clouds gathered overhead as I navigated my boat-like Ford SUV into a forgotten sliver of Lakeview. Upon arrival, the camera was rolling as August Cuny, armed solely with his acoustic guitar, began serenading an intimate audience of potted plants. I was relieved from the engulfing humidity as my eyes wandered around to absorb the inhabitants [...]
HIDE THE DOG!: Community Records Hits the Road (Summer ’12 Edition)
Touring has become one of the aspects of my life that I look forward to the most. For me, it’s the thing that makes waking up at 6 am, 5 days a week to go serve coffee, lattes and bagels to people on their way to work seem less burdensome. Touring is addictive (more addictive [...]
Drawn And Quartered at The San Diego Comic-Con
The weeks leading up to the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) were sweat-inducing and panic-riddled. I had been promised three all-access passes to the SDCC from an LSU football ticket scalper; and on that promise I pitched an article idea to the editors of ANTIGRAVITY and swore delivery of a Comic-Con exclusive. With my flight booked [...]
D&B For Dummies: An Electronic Music Primer With The House DJ
Deep in Marrero, miles away even from the Expressway, inside an otherwise fully domesticated house, through its kitchen, past the laundry room and finally into the walled-in garage, a red “on air” light glows from one of two flat screen monitors, letting the world know that BelowCLevel is broadcasting to the world. Helming the controls [...]
ALL AGE PAGE
A perfect way to end the month of June was the Southern Lord showcase at the Big Top. This tour consisted of Black Breath, Martyrdod, Burning Love and Enabler. This had to be the best metal tour passing through New Orleans, hands down. Local band haarp opened and the show was only 5 dollars. Seeing haarp for the first time playing on the floor was [...]
Chocolate Cities: The World of Go-Go Live
Natalie Hopkinson, writer, journalism professor and contributing editor to the online magazine The Root, has been studying the way of life that is go-go music in her home of Washington D.C. for over a decade, attending shows, interviewing musicians and entrepreneurs and soaking in the overall spectacle of go-go and how it relates to the history [...]
Lost Dog: The Search For A Forgotten New Orleans Superhero
On a recent Friday night in the Harahan Community Center, the master of ceremonies had the capacity crowd’s attention. “This here,” he promised, “this tonight is gonna be some old-school professional wrestling!” All of us cheered. “Some of you may remember—folks my age, a little younger—the kind of old-school wrestling New Orleans was famous for. [...]
