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Alex Rawls

@alexrawls.bsky.social
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New Orleans-based journalist & podcaster covering music & culture. I can be found at MySpiltMilk.com and TwelveSongsOfChristmas.com

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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texas A&M isn’t as JV as #LSU is making them look.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wish Saints would have won but I’m fine with that loss. Moore betting on his team on week 1 will pay dividends down the road.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone about to post or repost a video that show Trump has lost it - look again & ask yourself if anyone other than those who want evidence that he has lost it will see what you see. I’m with you & it rarely looks as bad as advertised.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kids once learned the Great Lakes with the mnemonic device HOMES. Now they’ll have to use SHAME.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What can American acts and the American music industry learn from #Kpop? www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/k-pop-connects-fans-more-than-stars
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K-pop Connects Fans More Than Stars — My Spilt Milk
K-pop "idols" sparked an intense, passionate fanbase, but its emphasis on community and creativity makes it something western artists could learn from. .
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Coverage of New Orleans’ #kpop community at @nolanews.bsky.social www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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After 'K-pop Demon Hunters' swept the nation, K-pop is catching on in New Orleans
“The fandom that K-pop has built is such an inclusive and beautiful fandom."
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This just confirms what I thought when I heard the second half of #BTS "Arirang" - that they wanted to be heard as pop from Korea and not simply K-pop.
screenshot of text explaining why BTS decided not to submit music for Grammy consideration
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
WWE can't shake its addiction to Stupid Babyface Syndrome. They let Brock lock HHH, Oba Femi & a bunch of "cops" in the cell like a bunch of dummies, and rather than have Oba stay cool and tough, he looks like a wounded dope following Brock as he walks outside the ring. #BuryAllFaces
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“We must protect America before these lunatics give everyone healthcare” is a weird button for a Truth Social post, even for him.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Rough watching the Switzerland/ Canada match. I’m rooting for Canada but teams don’t win World Cups or knockout round matches making sub-par plays while hoping someone else will be awesome.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hard to say France looked like shit in a 3-1 win, but it looked like it didn't take Senegal seriously. They scored when they tried & probably should have won 6-1. Yesterday against Iraq felt more engaged, but they look like they're waiting for the knockout round to start their #worldcup
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No parent would let their child get away with a statement as tepid as “Mistakes are made.” They’d expect an acknowledgment of who did it and an expression of regret. That’s basic for a kid and a national embarrassment that a president can’t manage that.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
France looks like they’re waiting for Senegal to lay down and concede the match. So much lazy, aimless play. #worldcup
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thank you! Good to see your name again.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’m in the virtual waiting room to but tix for my daughter to see K-pop band #Cortis (who I like too) & this is more nerve-wracking than standing in a real people line for Prince on the Purple Rain tour.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Judging by a quick look at TicketMaster, there are a lot of tickets available for all nights of #EssenceFestival. There are a lot of things it needs to do, and one is move into the Smoothie King Center. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/ess...
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Essence Fest Needs to Move Next Door — My Spilt Milk
The Essence Festival of Culture is starting to renegotiate its contract with New Orleans and its venues. The festival would benefit from moving out of the Superdome and into the Smoothie King Center.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Am I the only person who thinks the reason Trump thinks he won the war in Iran on day one because he can't imagine a country being anything but the body being driven by its leader's head? I'm sure he can't imagine a U.S. not led by him anymore.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I'm not a card or collector guy, but I found this story of online marketplaces and moms to be well worth the time. www.404media.co/man-finds-1-...
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Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Threatening weather has prompted #jazzfest to trim down today's schedule to try to get it done before things get ugly. Here are my picks for today at the festival with a graphic that shows the changes and new times. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/lad...
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Ladies First at Jazz Fest on Friday Starting with Lainey Wilson — My Spilt Milk
Country music star Lainey Wilson makes her Jazz Fest debut on Friday at Jazz Fest in New Orleans. It's also a good day for women artists at Jazz Fest, from Jamaica's Koffee to the Bywater's Sarah Quin...
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I can't be the only person who thinks numbering how many he has been president by writing out 3 and putting it in quotation marks, all caps and parentheses counts as failing the exam right there.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Here are my updated highlights for today at #JazzFest. A few artists I was looking forward to were cut in an effort to get everybody off the stages around 5, but many are still performing. I have also posted the updated schedule. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/fre...
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Fred Wesley, Flagboy Giz and Tra$h Magnolia Among Highlights for Second Thursday at Jazz Fest — My Spilt Milk
For the second week in a row, the Locals Thursday is one of the strongest days at Jazz Fest in New Orleans, with some very interesting, very different choices to make to close the day.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The second week of #jazzfest in New Orleans starts today, with Fred Wesley, Lettuce, Flagboy Giz and Sasha Masakowski's Tra$h Magnolia among the highlights. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/fre...
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Fred Wesley, Flagboy Giz and Tra$h Magnolia Among Highlights for Second Thursday at Jazz Fest — My Spilt Milk
For the second week in a row, the Locals Thursday is one of the strongest days at Jazz Fest in New Orleans, with some very interesting, very different choices to make to close the day.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today’s a good day for #americana at #jazzfest, but it’s also great to see #hiphop on the Fair Grounds w/ Nas, HaSizzle and Kr3wcial. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/ame...
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Americana Dominates Saturday at Jazz Fest 2026 — My Spilt Milk
Tyler Childers, Rhiannon Giddens, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit top a strong day for country, folk, and Americana at Jazz Fest.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Do others hear as much Amy Winehouse as I do in Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars?
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Day two of #JazzFest closes with #JonBatiste, who has become a must-see artist at the Fair Grounds. Every show since 2017 has been musically and conceptually different and exciting, and he tops our #highlights for Friday at the Fest. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/jon...
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Jon Batiste's Jazz Fest Weekend Continues Friday — My Spilt Milk
The highlights of the second day at Jazz Fest in New Orleans include a Givers reunion, Big Freedia's gospel and Jon Batiste's headlining set.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My highlights for today, the first day of #JazzFest and a Locals Thursday. For me, it's one of the best days of the festival this year. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/jaz...
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Jazz Fest 2026 Starts with One of its Best Days — My Spilt Milk
Our picks for a very good start to the 2026 Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tomorrow #JazzFest starts, so here's my guide to the Jamaican acts who'll play weekend one. We're getting a lot of strong reggae - no surprise - and I'm looking forward to the dancehall showcase with BrukOut Sound System.
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Jamaican Artists in the Jazz Fest Spotlight, Week One — My Spilt Milk
A guide to the acts from Jamaica that will play the first weekend of Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
How wrong must your life have gone to end up in Power Slap matches?
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On Sunday, May 3, #TeddySwims will play #JazzFest in New Orleans in front of Trombone Shorty. Here's a preview from his set at Coachella last weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOui...
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Teddy Swims - Mr. Know It All - Live at Coachella 2026
YouTube video by Coachella
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It’s not bad enough that Trump blundered us into a war. He also has to look like an idiot doing it, threatening to blockade the strait Iran already blockades.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Coming to New Orleans on Apr 23.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I'm reading "Frank Zappa's America" & am not sure the author's not a little kind to Frank, but it has made me go back to "Absolutely Free" and "Only in it for the Money." This Frank is so much more interesting than what he would become.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm going to be on @wwlradio.bsky.social today after 2 to talk about the ghost of Checkpoint Charlie in #NewOrleans with @ianhoch.bsky.social
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
On Fri & Sat, @tnawrestling.bsky.social will be in New Orleans for Sacrifice & an Impact taping. Recently I talked to @matthardy.bsky.social about returning to #TNA & how trying to work smarter led to Broken Matt Hardy.
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Death-defying Hardy Boyz return to New Orleans for 2 televised wrestling shows
Wrestlers Matt and Jeff Hardy have made memories in New Orleans. In 2009, Jeff won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in a daring ladder match that almost broke his shoulder, and his brother led f...
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pictures and video of ICE at the New Orleans airport show them doing nothing to speed the lines & patrolling them instead.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Questions musicians might want to think about as they rage about #AI. @antigravitymag.bsky.social antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...
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MY SPILT MILK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Folk AI Commercials during the Super Bowl presented one vision of artificial intelligence (AI). The Genspark ad gave us AI as a tool that could speed up the cubicle warriors’ productivity so they coul...
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A panel at this year's Folk Alliance on #AI made me think we need to think about its relationship to music in a more granular way, starting with our assumptions about audiences and musicians. Thanks @antigravitymag.bsky.social for giving me room to riff.
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MY SPILT MILK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Folk AI Commercials during the Super Bowl presented one vision of artificial intelligence (AI). The Genspark ad gave us AI as a tool that could speed up the cubicle warriors’ productivity so they coul...
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Tonight!
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“I remember the match I had with Shane Douglas in front of 26 fans in Poca, West Virginia, in 1986 almost as well as I remember winning the WWE from Dwayne Johnson” - #MickFoley, who’ll be in New Orleans at Southport Hall on Monday night. www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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Legendary WWE wrestler Mick Foley brings one-man show to New Orleans
His signature match is 1998’s “Hell in a Cell,” when he faced The Undertaker in a match with the ring enclosed inside a large, chain-link cage.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is just raw, uncut id. Whatever comes into his pumpkin has to come out, and none of it is incoherent or contradictory to him because he lives in an endless present. There's no past to deal with or future to consider, just a present where he imagines most excellent outcomes.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I talked to #MickFoley about storytelling & the lingering affects of a life in wrestling before he comes to Southport Hall in New Orleans to tell stories & answer questions on Monday night. @mickfoley.bsky.social www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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Legendary WWE wrestler Mick Foley brings one-man show to New Orleans
His signature match is 1998’s “Hell in a Cell,” when he faced The Undertaker in a match with the ring enclosed inside a large, chain-link cage.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ugh. Watching the predictable punditry asserting the question will be whether Democrats want a fighter or a moderate. That’s not fair to Talarico or Crockett & oversimplifies the question. How about an authentic candidate that speaks to & for their electorate? #duh
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A good first-hand account of the voting mess in Texas yesterday, one coming to many of us in November. timnapalmstegall.substack.com/p/tonight-i-...
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Tonight, I tried to vote.
So did a lot of other people. The state of Texas had other ideas.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Just saw a beautifully, endearingly amateurish opening band. Not a song I can remember, never more than 5 strings in tune, and songs all moved in the same way from verse to chorus. And it was so sincere that I’m glad I saw it.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Today Willie Colòn died. Glad I got a chance to have @miguelzenon.bsky.social pay tribute to him and help me appreciate "Asalte Navideño" in December for my "Twelve Songs of Christmas" podcast.
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"Asalto Navideño" with Miguel Zenón, and the Ray Conniff Singers — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Grammy winner Miguel Zenón drops by the Christmas music podcast to talk about the salsa Christmas classic "Asalto Navideñao," and music industry vets Jonathan McHugh and Tamara Conniff talk about thei...
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It was fun to go back & chew on NO's entry in the post-rock moment, Jai Alai and the reissue of their 2000 "Division" on @strangedaisy.bsky.social. It's more concise and measured than many of the post-rock bands whose reputations have endured.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
From the NYT: "Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, said in a statement that the ruling affirms 'despite all the noise of the moment, that the founders’ system of checks and balances remains strong nearly 250 years later.'” Yes, after Congress abandoned its role in that system.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
They’re playing Carrollton Station on Friday, Feb. 27.
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The band from Simmons College in Kentucky’s tripping on Tucks throws. #WhyILoveMardiGras
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Alex Rawls @alexrawls.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
For those concerned about waste during Mardi Gras, think about the fact that 3 parades collectively had more than 100 floats today. What could anyone throw in the last 50 that people hadn’t already caught 10 of?
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