Category Archives: new entries for upcoming “New Orleans: the Underground Guide”

I created the following AntiGravity magazine cover to accompany my interview with bounce rapper Vochak Redu (below photo). It may seem like AntiGravity will write about any new local rapper that pops up calling themselves “sissy bounce,” but 27-year-old model-esque … Continue reading →

Running a small community radio station is a hands-on affair. Recently, at Delgado Community College’s new radio station “The Dolphin” (1610-AM), Bob Dunn multitasked in the back office of its two-room studio, soldering a small transmitter while ripping reggae CDs … Continue reading →

When driving up Chartres Street in Bywater at night, you will often see the silhouette of a youngboy, across from Elizabeth’s restaurant, pounding a drum kit beneath the evil traffic camera. The boy, Frank (11), and his equally dedicated trumpet-playing brother Tahj (12) … Continue reading →

In the late ’90s, electronic music was poised to obliterate all real musicians and organic instrumentation. The process has by now been nearly completed, but at one point laptop music fans doubted the takeover would ever really play out, because … Continue reading →

David Augustine, the 23-year-old local rapper better known as Dee-1, is going to spend less time with some of his young fans. He’s leaving his job teaching at a Baton Rouge middle school to concentrate on his music career full … Continue reading →

I loved this Bywater art project. I was possibly the first person to promote it via my writing in Gambit Weekly. Nonetheless that inaugural article is not linked among the NYTimes pieces and whatnot on Dithyrambalina’s website. I am told … Continue reading →

The Honorable South combine rock, soul, folk, hip-hop, funk and a little more rock. Singer MS. (Charm Taylor) and guitarist Matthew Rosenbeck bristle slightly when I admit that, from listening to their music, I can tell they are not from … Continue reading →

Electronic house music is not New Orleans’ best known export. Kenneth Bryan, known as Kynt, may be New Orleans’ only documented male house singer. “My version of house is repetitious but complex,” Kynt says. “It’s vocal, tribal, with full choruses, storylines … Continue reading →