“Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” displays Mayer Hawthorne’s crate digger soul in all its retro glory.
Concert Preview: Mayer Hawthorne
Mayer Hawthorne was working as a DJ (nom de plume: DJ Haircut) in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan when he decided to record a few of his own tracks on a whim. Hawthorne’s whim was taken to a new level when Stones Throw Records head Peanut Butter Wolf signed him after hearing only two [...]
Touring 101 with Martin Atkins Tonight
Drummer Martin Atkins is best known for his work with Public Image, Ltd., Ministry and Killing Joke, but he also teaches “The Business of Touring” at Columbia College in Chicago, and he has written the book Tour: Smart on how bands can tour effectively. Tonight at 5 p.m. at Loyola University, he’ll deliver a talk [...]
Rockie Charles Passes Away This Morning
“The President of Soul,” Rockie Charles, passed away Friday morning after battling cancer. The blues guitarist – whose real name was Alfred Charles Merrick – was scheduled to play Jazz Fest this year and last year recorded a new album in Denmark, I Want First Class. His “Before I Find the Right Girl for Me” [...]
YouTube du Jour: The Revivalists
On Saturday night, the Revivalists will play a CD-release party for their new album, Vital Signs, at the Blue Nile as part of Foburg. Here they are at One Eyed Jacks playing “Concrete (Fish Out of Water).”
Foburg Music Festival Starts Today
New Orleans hasn’t always been thought of as a good rock town. Foburg aims to address that. This weekend, the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective (NOIR) will launch the 3-day music festival spotlighting over 100 area indie bands and touring artists (some as far as Seattle) on the road to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, [...]
Legendary Hip-Hop Producer Pete Rock to Judge at Beat Battle
This Saturday, the monthly Soundclash beat battle is putting on a special party at the Howlin Wolf. Legendary hip-hop producer and DJ Pete Rock will be on hand for a full day of hip-hop and sneaker culture starting at 3 p.m. with Kicks and Snares presented by Soundclash along with KevinNottingham.com, BlackSmith Music, and The Source Magazine.
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Haiti Benefit and Patois International Human Rights Film Festival Kickoff Tonight
Tonight kicks off the 7th annual Patois International Human Rights Film Festival, which will be screening films around New Orleans through Sunday, March 21. To kick off the festival, a benefit concert for the relief efforts of Partners in Health in Haiti is being held at Maison on Frenchmen St. The show will be hosted [...]
Jazz for the Ages: Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute and Old Algiers RiverFest Team Up
Tonight the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance is hosting a special concert, “Jazz for the Ages.” The show brings together the young talents in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Ensemble with older masters Dr. Michael White on clarinet, singers Banu Gibson and Phillip Manuel, and trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, New Orleans’ oldest working musician [...]
YouTube du Jour: Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes Play “Dap Walk”
Tonight from 7-11 p.m., Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes play the Mother-in-Law Lounge, which had a car run into its wall only last monday. This is a return of sorts for Vincent, whose band usually backed Ernie K-Doe when he first opened the Mother-in-Law in the mid-90’s. Here, Vincent plays his deep-funk classic “Dap [...]
