Rachel Cholst

Rachel Cholst

Happy Talk Band — Starve a Fever

Alex McMurray is involved in so many projects (many of which have been featured here), it would be easy to assume that he’s the only guitarist in New Orleans. That would certainly be true if you were an attendee of…

Chris Stalcup and the Grange — Downhearted Fools

We’ve seen it a million times over — when an artist hits it big, they change their sound so they can either be taken seriously or garner mass appeal. Chris Stalcup isn’t interested in that. (Though he isn’t necessarily “big”…

The Shondes — Brighton

I was 13 on September 11, 2001. As a Jewish kid in private schools, that mean that my weekends for the next two years were dominated by bat and bar mitzvahs. We’d go to synagogue in the morning, the kid…