By: Anna Edwards Let’s take a trip down south, to New Orleans, particularly. Home to the offbeat skateboarders, the artsy wealthy, the dirt poor, the Tulane students with their obnoxious Tulane shirts, the Loyola students with their dreads and glazed over eyes, the dumbfounded recent college graduates and the stray kittens and puppies who I’m […]
By: Anna Edwards Trevor Hall – a modern day Bob Marley to some – is a humble white man with dreadlocks to his knees. On Oct. 18 at Off Broadway in STL, he glided onto the stage, commanding the attention of the mangled and distinctive crowd. To set the scene: standing in front of me […]
By: Anna Edwards Robert Plant, one of the few survivors from the era which pioneered rock music, once again diverges from his Led Zeppelin origins. In his new solo album, he turns instead to the stellar sound that he and Allison Krauss first created in their Grammy-award winning album Raising Sand. Lullaby and… The Ceaseless […]
Every generation can be defined by their music: the 60s included soulful blues along with psychedelic rock – Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and Marvin Gaye; the 70s discovered disco and their own type of rock such as Kool and the Gang, Queen and Donna Summer; then came the 80s who harbored “arena music” […]