Mixtape: Long Drive Home
I adore Robyn’s video for Call Your Girlfriend where she flash-dances and is sad for five minutes but it isn’t something I can physically translate to a dancefloor. I have a good sense of rhythm and love singin’ along but I also have bowlegs, two left feet and bad shoes. Obviously this means my...
5-Song Play List: Under the Covers
I am a cover freak. There’s just something about the sheer weirdness of Andre 3000 revamping the Beatles’ “All Together Now,” or the delicious oddity of a folk band covering “Billie Jean” – covers are a sonic playground for musicians to interrupt the norm. Altering tempo, substituting or adding in different instruments, and changing the...
Mixtape: Slow B-Q
By: Lizzie Ford-Madrid I’m at that point in the summer where it’s so hot I just want it to be over mostly out of guilt for not taking advantage of summer times like I should. I know summer doesn’t really end in New Orleans but I always feel a twinge of sadness as September rolls...
Mixtape: New Jack Swing
Beloved Invader Ashbash has come back with her third mixtape: “New Jack Swing.” Take a quick stroll down memory lane with early 90s R&B. Then put on your spandex bodysuit and dance like you’re in the movie “House Party.” The Good Girls – “Your Sweetness” Ralph Tresvant – “Yo Baby Yo” Bobby Brown – “On...
