Sometimes great music just falls into your lap, and this is one of those cases. Yesterday, a last-minute announcement was made that Fitz and the Tantrums would be playing a free show tonight at the Howlin’ Wolf. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. Fitz and the Tantrums burst into the [...]
“A cluttered room is a cluttered mind,” says Amanda LeBlanc of Style Network’s show The Amandas. This New Orleans native has made a career out of professionally organizing the homes of everyone from celebrities to CEOs to regular suburban households. She has spent a season organizing people’s lives on television, and season one ends Wednesday [...]
In 2009, Latin percussionist Humberto “Pupi” Menes’ life changed for the tragic. After 35 memorable years of playing in the New Orleans Latin scene with bands like Fredy Omar con su Banda, Otra, and others, Menes had a stroke, leaving him unable to perform. Born in the Cuban city of Matanzas, Menes’ career as a [...]
Irish pub tunes and whiskey may have been part of the humble origins of Nashville-based band Humming House, but it was the co-producer of their debut album, Mitch Dane, who heard these musicians playing together before they were even a band. According to lead vocalist and songwriter Justin Wade Tam, prior to the album and [...]
The Imagination Movers’ journey started in 2003 when four New Orleans friends—Rich Collins, Dave Poche, Scott Durbin and Scott “Smitty” Smith—started writing kids’ music. Fast forward two years later and their playful, eclectic pop sounds and positive lyrical content landed them on the Disney Channel. The show earned the Movers two Emmy nominations and one [...]
“That’s not relevant.” Annie Clark—St. Vincent—slyly dismisses a question about her time with the Polyphonic Spree, preferring to talk instead about St. Vincent and her current album, Strange Mercy. Born in ’82, Clark was raised in Texas. Prior to her solo career as St. Vincent, Clark was a member of the Dallas-based symphonic pop rock [...]
In the past year, DJ and producer Star Slinger has been exhilarating the UK with his ultra-slick remixes inspired by house music, Motown and Southern soul, and has recently been crossing over to audiences in the States. He released his debut single, “Dumbin’”, in September with record label Green Label Sound. The track captures his [...]
This weekend, October 14-16, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation puts on the sixth-annual Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. The free festival is held in Lafayette Square and kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, October 14, continuing all day Saturday and Sunday. The Blues and BBQ Festival celebrates the best of the [...]
City Park is not where locals usually go to lounge about during the aching heat of summer. This is why The NOLA Project has waited for the month of October to once again stage their unique production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Sydney and Walda Bestoff Sculpture Garden in partnership with [...]
The problem of hunger is “closer than you think,” says Linzy Cotaya of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana. To help raise awareness towards the issue, Second Harvest is bringing back its annual Harvest The Music concert series to Lafayette Square this month. Starting this Wednesday, September 14, and running [...]
