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That’s the Joint

The famous singles of Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, the Dixie Cups and Lloyd Price continue to loom large over New Orleans music. In 2008, Harrah’s Entertainment Manager Bill Johnston created […]

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Punk’s Not Dead

Raw, stripped-down, in-your-face punk infiltrated American music in the mid-1970s, inciting an entire subculture to Rebel! Proclaim! Liberate! Punk was a movement of mass consciousness among youth, and new wave—a […]

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Songs for the Saints

It’s no secret that New Orleans music and culture has a bit of a love affair with itself. Anyone who’s lived here understands that a big part of life in […]

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Ace Honored

Although its head office was located 185 miles away in Jackson, Mississippi, Ace Records was in effect New Orleans’ first independent record label. It was owned by the gregarious Johnny […]

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Live Music on Freret Street, F’Real?

Freret Street finally gets its horns this fall. The Box Office at La Nuit will host brass bands and traditional New Orleans jazz and blues starting September 5. The show, […]

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Bringing Burlesque Back One G-String at a Time

New Orleans traffics in titillation, and though tastes change, the compulsion to see a little skin is the same as it was 60 years ago. “If tourists go down bourbon […]

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The Cinema Show

“Before we had any music written, we had these visual ideas of how things were going to be,” says A Living Soundtrack bassist/keyboardist Nick Lauve. “We just tried to make […]

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Mad Man

  Bryan Batt suggests an early-morning walk through Audubon Park to any New Orleans newcomer. He raves about restaurants like Commander’s Palace, Clancy’s, Acme Oyster House and the Bourbon House. […]

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Rolling in Green

Don Kelly, lawyer and father of three, had a light bulb moment during his Hurricane Katrina evacuation. “I had this idea to do a benefit concert for children’s charities,” he […]

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Fritzel’s 2.0

“We’re trying to bring integrity back to Bourbon Street,” says Kate Wimmer, who has managed Fritzel’s European Jazz Pub since a change of ownership last year. “Fritzel’s lost its quality […]

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