Is People Museum New Orleans Music?
Submitted by Alex Rawls on September 25, 2018 - 1:14pm
"We are trying to show the New Orleans of today and tomorrow, so this layer of electronics over humans is very reflective of the times we are living here," Claire Givens says.
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A Living Soundtrack Soundtracks Life in Japan
Submitted by Alex Rawls on March 7, 2018 - 2:36pm
Matt Aguiluz of A Living Soundtrack lived in Japan from 2011 to 2013, and while there he was involved in a life-threatening car accident when a passenger van he and his wife were on collided with a dump truck. Two people on the van died and Aguiluz had to be hospitalized with ruptured intestines. That experience led to Tezukayama, the new, half-hour long EP from the electronic duo—the first since 2011.
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John Carpenter's Scary Soundtracks Arrive in Time for Halloween
Submitted by Alex Rawls on October 30, 2017 - 10:06am
John Carpenter's Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 explains why Trans-Siberian Orchestra has kept its holiday sights focused on Christmas. Carpenter beat them to Halloween—literally. Carpenter brings the same mix of classical lite and Sunset Strip hair metal to his soundtracks that TSO slathers on Christmas.
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Tysson Aims for Plastic, Not Gold
Submitted by Alex Rawls on November 14, 2016 - 3:16pm
In 2008, John Michael Rouchell made himself an important part of the New Orleans music story. He recorded and released online a song a week for a year, and the musicians he worked with evolved into the band MyNameIsJohnMichael. The album culled from the best of those tracks, The People That Come and Go, found a spot where the folky, working class, storytelling songwriting of someone like Bruce Springsteen met indie rock.
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