Hailing from New Orleans, The Parishioners' distinctive sound blends rock and Americana genres, with a heavy emphasis on strong lyrics and a distinct Louisiana flair.  Band leader Michael Cain calls The Parishioners'  sound, “Gothic Americana.” melding influences that range from Echo and the Bunnymen, Television, Wilco and R.E.M. to Graham Parsons and Tom Petty.  Their new CD, Between Piety and Desire, will be released December 12th, and was made possible in part, by a grant from the Threadheads Cultural Foundation.  You can get it here now, directly from the band, in CD and digital download formats.  

The debut album by The Mix Tapes, Tampa Bay rock & roll trio

‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible. 


For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

Former artist manager and Outlier.  Embarking on a new career in NH with www.thefarmstand.net, a B & B, farm stand and concert venue. The music here is moastly from artists I managed and a few I admire.

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