It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

Holed up in his room at night after teaching high school math all day, Agasthya Pradhan Shenoy tinkered around with his computer, making music. When he d compiled a bunch of tracks he called himself Swelo and put out a record he called Escalator Music. It became an instant internet hit, blowing up first with the the world s greatest collection of angry elitisits Reddit. With a hit record came demands for live dates. Agasthya recruited some other teachers, Amberine Huda couldn t make it to Happy Hour , Jon Holt on drums and Andrew Tripodo on guitar, and Swelo the band was born. Here they play live acoustic versions of three songs. To get the full effect check out the whole album. Rob Owen was just a regular guy with a perfectly sane idea open a surf shop in New Orleans. Surprisingly, the NO Surf Shop lasted a few years. Then Rob discovered he had a malignant brain tumor and was given 6 months to live. Over his second or third beer, depending whether he wrote the number accurately on his arm so he d remember, R