For the average 22-year-old, experiences, wild or mundane, and emotions, vulnerable or ecstatic, are expressed first through the clipped characters of a tweet or the rambling manifest of a blog. But Baton Rouge-based pianist Rebecca Roubion keeps those life revelations for her songs, not her Twitter account.
The pressure is on this time of year for anyone who writes about music or movies or books; the public is clamoring for the annual top ten lists.
Once alerted that today was the 29th anniversary of John Lennon's death in 1980, I was immediately stymied trying to remember where I was when I heard the news.
You know, there are people in this world that would be envious to have the Dirty Dozen Brass Band just kicking around, something to do on a Friday night.
Time is running out to get your sonic artifact dubbed one of the 5 "most intriguing" for 2009.
Slaid Cleaves lays down a serpentine path through the landscape of heartbreak on his latest album Everything You Love Will be Taken Away.
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The Record Crate
After Justin Hilbun’s memorial earlier this year, Neil Werries realized it was time to get back to his true love—music.
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This CD, sitting bravely with the greats in the jazz stacks at the Compact Disc Store, won me over with its packaging moxie: a rectangle of cereal box cardboard folded gray side out, fashioned into a rough envelope visibly held together with masking tape.
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The eponymous debut by Lafayette’s Givers may be short at 23 minutes— four songs and a remix—but that brief record is packed with more ebullience than any indie rock sourpuss can withstand.
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Cohen Hartman’s band’s debut Paper Moon fits its name.
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