Artist Info: One Man Machine

You might not get Bernard Pearce’s sound — the narcotized haze of psychedelic textures, brass-band exuberance and unbridled funk/rock fun does take a spin or 10 — but it will hit you in a little while. The one man in One Man Machine, Pearce is the perfect mascot for this new age of New Orleans music: He’s both challenging and rewarding, gregarious and scarily intense. On “Get My Sound,” the title track from his March debut, he’s an out-and-out rock star, and not an altogether reluctant one. [read more...]