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BRING THE NOISE

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The Big Easy’s finest ambassador plays the Ritz Theatre Dec. 13
OUR 5 FAVORITE DIRTY HOLIDAY DITTIES Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The John Waters one is definitely NSFW
CLASSICAL Thursday, December 4, 2014
If you cringe every time someone starts howling “Hallelujah!” at the top of their lungs this holiday season, don’t blame God (or Cohen or Buckley) – blame Handel! Composed in …
AMERICANA DELUXE Thursday, December 4, 2014
Before his death in 1991, Gamble Rogers had become a near-mythical figure for his folk songs and stories celebrating his beloved Florida. Rogers was known as an encouraging force for up-and-coming …
SMOOTH OPERATORS Thursday, December 4, 2014
While Folio Weekly sees them as “Steely Dan without the hip, jazz chord progressions and dark, cerebral lyrics,” Hall & Oates are undoubtedly kings of blue-eyed soulful rock of the …
HORROR BUSINESS Thursday, December 4, 2014
The originators of “horror punk” slither into Underbelly this week. Slamming through psychobilly chord progressions and choking out dark lyrics, The Misfits are the O.G.’s …
The local sonic reducer will distort and destroy familiar melodies, then reassemble them in his own perverse style
ALT-J KEEP RIDING THAT AWESOME WAVE Wednesday, December 3, 2014
The Brits are so wildly successful, they won't even talk to us about it
The husband-and-wife duo meld invention, puppetry and weather into an indescribable Big Easy scramble
In the 20-some-odd years I have been writing 
 about music, I have penned exactly one piece 
 on cover bands. Until now, that is. This is No. 2. Usually I take the moral high ground and write only about original music, the idea being that …