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Community Records invites the New Orleans scene to celebrate Record Store Day with the reunion of COMMUNITY band.

Angelique Sanders / Whatever's Clever James Weber Jr. started writing the songs that would make up Keen Dreams' debut album after reading Daisy Hildyard's The Second Body. The book-length essay makes the case that humans have one corporeal body and one less tangible body, something more spectral. It is not, by all accounts, a book that reaches simple conclusions — "bewilderment struggling towards expression," according to one review — which in itself might help to explain the dreamy and uncanny nature of Weber Jr.'s songs on a record that borrows ...

Sometimes it can feel that the music that comes out of the New Orleans scene is an art of polar extremes—extreme jazz, extreme hip hop, extreme zydeco, and so on and so forth. And then your finger hits the pulse of something that just defies categorization, something that a lot of music in our city instantly demands. When you hear the latest track from Delores Galore (of Sexy Dex and The Fresh fame) titled “Continue?,” their song calls to mind different genres and different musical epochs but their voice paired with slowed down hypnotic beats defies classification. “I didn’t have a ...

Synth Spotlight: A Chat with DJ faeriegothmother WWOZ may be where jazz, blues and world-music-heads get their music fix, but WTUL based out of Tulane is where the prog and alternative cats get their tunes. Enter: DJ faeriegothmother who currently hosts bi-weekly Tuesday night showcases of alternative local music from 8-10 p.m. CST. And although their name is goth-centric, one never knows what might show up on the broadcast. “My show sometimes takes a life of its own, and completely changes from what I envisioned going into recording it. Because most of this year our shows have been pre-rec...