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Live Review: The Flaming Lips at Voodoo, Take Two by Kathleen McCann

[Earlier in the week, we published Lauren Noel's review of the Flaming Lips' November 1 show at Voodoo. Our Kathleen McCann had a different take o …

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Flickr Me by OffBeat Staff

There are more of you than there are of us, so we’d like you to help us cover New Orleans. We invite professional and amateur photographers and videog …

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YouTube du Jour: Sean Yseult’s Art Collection
Rock City Morgue's Sean Yseult talks art collection before Saturday's opening of "Pretty Babies," her art show with Louis St. Lewis at Canary Gallery (329 Julia St.). View full size...

Blogs & Stuff

Get Off Your Butts and Protest, Please!

I put out a little teaser in today’s WB about a noise ordinance that’s going to be voted on by the New Orleans City Council on November 19, 2009. It seems that Councilman James Carter introduced this

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Post-Voodoo

I spent a week trying to organize thoughts on Voodoo, generally along the lines of costume/production/show biz vs. something more grounded/musical/”honest”, and that’s a subtext that’s hard to ignore

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A Little Urgency

One stat that came out of the morning press conference at the National World War II Museum explains the urgency to open the new wing and subsequent expansions ASAP. Since the museum opened on June 6,

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Rock City Morgue

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Castle Gray Skull
Rock City Morgue has generally traded on a version of New York-based, B-movie-oriented punk rock for much Read more...
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Plunge

Dancing on Thin Ice
Immersion
For the first time in 13 years, trombonist Marc McGrain has convened a group of musicians to record an Read more...
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the subdudes

Flower Petals
429
After the straightforward verisimilitude of its CD/DVD release Live at the Ram’s Head, the new subdud Read more...
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Irma Thomas

The Soul Queen of New Orleans: 50th Anniversary Celebration
Rounder
On which we celebrate the Queen’s 49th anniversary in show business, actually, counting from her first Read more...
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Jeremy Davenport

We'll Dance 'Til Dawn
Basin Street
Jeremy Davenport has lived much of his career in quotation marks, a living homage to another day and styl Read more...
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Harry Connick, Jr.

Your Songs
Columbia
I assume that the title—Your Songs—is a reference to standards, songs that belong to all of us. On hi Read more...
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Clarence Bucaro

New Orleans
Hyena
On his latest album, New Orleans, Clarence Bucaro revisits a project he shelved prior to releasing 2008's Read more...
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Mike Hood

Hocus Pocus
STR Digital
Pianist Mike Hood knows how to please a crowd during his regular gigs at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, as Read more...
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Jivin’ Gene

It’s Never Too Late
Jin
Jivin’ Gene was one of the original swamp poppers, having made a regional splash on his very first sing Read more...
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Betty Davis

Is It Love or Desire
Light in the Attic
It’s desire. On the album Betty Davis recorded in 1976 at Studio in the Woods in Bogalusa, the titl Read more...
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