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Brazzmatazz: Hua!

Brazzmatazz is a 18 -piece brass band formed in 2014 on and off the stage and via the streets of Ghent Belgium. As they are a bunch of musicians from different corners of the musical universe, they are influenced by…

Zen Mystery Fogg: Raccoon

Zen Mystery Fogg are two transplants of the scenic Vancouver Island wilderness living in New Orleans. Chase Franson and Thomas Molander make sunny, breezy, garage rock that treads the line between pop and lo-fi. Their debut single, Raccoon/Detour is being…

Orpheum Bell: Poor Laetitia

The Old Sister’s Home is Orpheum Bell’s most ambitious CD to date (it’s third!) with an eclectic style mixing folk, country, Eastern, and even a hard-driving song sung in Russian. “Poor Laetitia” opens things up with a stomping tango beat,…

Sun Hotel: Talks

New Orleans-based Sun Hotel have their latest release on the way, Gifts, officially releasing on October 11th. I don’t think many can come close to the description from the next paragraph, so I won’t even dare to try, lest I…

Generationals – Trust

Generationals is the New Orleans duo of Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner, a project formed after their previous group, the Eames Era, disbanded. After their debut for Park the Van in 2009 called Con Law, they came back together to…