The Rational Radicant // Brown Energy
I stay in shape by working out using body weight training and a book called You Are Your Own Gym. You should check it out: 14 bucks and you have a blueprint for life on keeping your whole body in top form. 20 minutes a day, a couple times a week and you’re Special Forces [...]
Paw Talk // Lost and Found
Arriving home after a ten-hour drive from Robbinsville, North Carolina, my house only partially feels like home. B and his band are touring Europe and Henry Dog is still in Metairie at his favorite playground, Puppy Love. The cats add some comfort to the structure, but there is a manifest absence: the remarkable and eerie [...]
Hottest Spot on the Compass: Dispatches from SXSW
Love it, hate it, ignore it or flock to it, Austin’s South By Southwest has become a yearly spectacle, where vans crammed with starry-eyed rock babies from across the country congregate in the heart of Texas to grab a piece of that music dollar pie (and good Tex-Mex). Since the ANTIGRAVITY staff was too busy [...]
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 [...]
Beats Per Month // Check Your Headset
With all this great music coming up so soon, it’s hard not to get excited about the Spring. Mardi Gras and St. Paddy’s may be over but as we all know, there’s always something to do in the Crescent City. Hell, French Quarter Fest is right around the corner. Spring also means rejuvenation, rebirth, festivals [...]
It’s Supposed to Be Loud: Shovels and Rope Make Friends with the Sound Man
When Meschiya Lake and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee (two of this city’s powerhouse singer-songwriters) both gush on stage about how excited they are to be opening for their favorite band, it’s hard not to expect something truly spectacular to follow in their wake. But that’s exactly what happened last February, when on [...]
Long-Haired Bullshit with Buzz Osborne and Gary Mader
There are legendary bands like Nirvana and even New Orleans’ own Eyehategod; and then there are the Melvins. Like the Pixies or Black Flag, the Melvins helped create a rabid, raunchy rock movement. And while it didn’t quite make millionaires out of founder Buzz Osborne and company (have you seen the video where Buzz tries [...]
From The Editor: Gone Fishing
We’re fashionably late this month. Sorry but with that thin slice of Spring almost gone, I had to get out and enjoy it. I was fortunate enough to gorge myself on crawfish and a flat full of Ponchatoula strawberries– thanks to Kevin B’s family out there in Livonia (Point Coupee Parish!)– and make it out [...]
From The Editor
“Hello me, it’s me again” –Dave Mustaine You’ve been hearing from me plenty these past seven-plus years, so I don’t think an introduction is quite necessary, but just in case: Hi, my name is Dan. I am your new Editor in Chief of this great big newspaper you hold in your hands, known throughout the [...]
