This season, the New Orleans Hornets and Irvin Mayfield’s I Club are working together to bring the city’s music to the game. A live band will play throughout home games on the Irvin Mayfield’s I Club Stage, and Mayfield was part of it on opening night, kicking off player introductions with an original Hornets theme [...]
[Updated] Tab Benoit and Johnny Sansone received four nominations each by the Blues Foundation for their annual Blues Music Awards. The winners will be announced on May 10 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee, where Benoit and his Medicine album face off against Sansone and The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is [...]
What happens when the high lords of fandom meet? Star Trek/T.J. Hooker/Boston Legal/Sh*! My Dad Says star William Shatner famously told fans to “Get a life” on a Saturday Night Live sketch, and Marvel Comics’ creator Stan Lee called the cops on Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory. Nonetheless, both are both scheduled to appear [...]
The Backbeat Foundation is taking a host of New Orleans artists to New York City January 6-8. For the fourth year, Export NOLA is an official showcase series at the Association of Performing Arts and Presenters Conference, with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, the Iguanas, Amanda Shaw, Stooges Brass Band, Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs and [...]
“You come to a game; you come to experience New Orleans,” Hugh Weber, President of the New Orleans Hornets said this morning. At a press conference at Irvin Mayfield’s I Club, he and Irvin Mayfield announced an initiative to integrate New Orleans music into Hornets home games. Starting with Wednesday night’s preseason game against the [...]
[Updated] For those who prefer their Christmas music as nostalgia-free as is manageable, Austin’s Krayolas and the West Seattle music community are here to help. You can download the rock-oriented Tinselitis: A West Seattle Christmas Album for free here. San Antonio Tex-Mex rock ‘n’ roll band the Krayolas with Farfisa great Augie Meyers have a [...]
For years, my wife and I have wondered if we’re cruise people or not. Could we relax into the rhythm of a few days with nothing that had to be done and nothing we especially wanted to do, or would we drive ourselves crazy? Saturday, we visited the Voyager of the Sea – the Royal [...]
I first saw work by artist Bruce Davenport, Jr. in 2008, when his diagram-like illustrations of marching bands had a strong, inexplicable quality to them. Done in colored markers, they were geometric depictions that focused on the bands’ formations in the street, and nothing differentiated one from another more than the colors of the uniforms, [...]
South by Southwest, Austin’s annual music conference/festival/mega-meet & greet has announced a preliminary talent lineup that includes a number of New Orleans acts. It’s hardly the last word – that won’t come out until likely February before SXSW starts March 13, 2012 – but I don’t usually see this many New Orleans acts on the [...]
Biz Markie‘s in town tonight at The Maison upstairs in the Penthouse before he appears tomorrow as the special musical guest at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. The show tonight at Maison is free, but you must RSVP @ maisonevents@gmail.com. Here’s footage of him demonstrating beatboxing on Yo Gabba Gabba! and [...]
