UPDATED “I’m refusing to get a full time job.” Ask Kelcy Wilburn (a.k.a. Kelcy Mae) what she wants to do with her life, and it’s obvious—music is where her passion lies. “I know that if I get a full-time job, I won’t spend the time and energy that I need to on music and being [...]
[UPDATED] Last night, the Black Keys proved that real rock ‘n’ roll stills exits, smoldering just under the surface of pop rock. Vocalist and guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney make up the no-holds-barred band, forgoing flash, costumes, and pretention for some seriously gritty rock. Their live show at the House of Blues was [...]
For anyone who’s wondered what a French movie version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale might look like, the 13th annual French Film Festival can show you. Presented by the New Orleans Film Society and the Consulat Général de France á la Nouvelle-Orléans, the festival features six French language films at the Prytania [...]
A year after a four-alarm fire ripped through the building, the Tropical Isle at the corner of Toulouse and Bourbon re-opened last month with a renewed commitment to live music on Bourbon Street. Equipped with new state-of-the-art sound systems, the Tropical Isle and Tropical Isle Bayou Club (formerly Beach Club) will continue the tradition of [...]
A year after a four-alarm fire ripped through the building, the Tropical Isle at the corner of Toulouse and Bourbon is re-opening tonight with a renewed commitment to live music on Bourbon Street. Equipped with new state-of-the-art sound systems, both Tropical Isle and Tropical Isle Bayou Club (formerly Beach Club) will continue the tradition of [...]
New Orleans has long fostered an underground scene unlike any other. Our tendency to prefer life a little quirkier is one of the reasons people migrate to the Crescent City. Not many other places offer great live music by talented musicians accompanied by a cabaret show and a bingo game. Still, the rest of the [...]
Dubbed the Horn Doctor, Mike Corrigan is a master repairman and craftsman of brass instruments who owns B.A.C. Horn Doctor, a repair shop and horn manufacturer in Olathe, Kansas. In addition to his shop, he also owns a mobile instrument repair truck that he uses to follow high school and college marching bands to fix [...]
The most bike-friendly music festival in New Orleans kicks off this Friday evening. Mid-City’s Bayou Boogaloo is a free music, food and arts festival on the banks of Bayou St. John. Festival organizers encourage attendees to bike, streetcar, even canoe down the bayou rather than drive and clog up the Mid-City neighborhood where the festival is [...]
To some music aficionados, genres are defined for a reason and should never be mixed. For musicians Dave Gonzalez and Mike Barfield, those lines are a little smudged. Actually, they are more like the traffic laws in New Orleans — merely suggestions. Both are steeped in the tradition of country music, but neither seems to [...]
For the guys of Honey Island Swamp Band (HISB), Katrina was almost as much of a blessing as a curse. Stranded in San Francisco with just their gig playing with Eric Lindell, Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mule knew they needed to find more places to play to get by. In a chance meeting that could [...]
