Last Sunday, November 21, the Nine Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club held its 12th annual parade. The 9th Ward-based marching band was accompanied by the Stooges Brass Band, To Be Continued Brass Band and Kermit Ruffins. 2010′s parade kicked off on Louisa Street, marching through the Upper Ninth, and crowned a King, Queen and [...]
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Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship?, Of Resolutions and Resolve (Domino Sound Records)
November 1, 2010 – 12:54 am
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? combines a folk-punk base with elements of traditional New Orleans music to create a sound that’s half brass-band dirge and half indie-rock sea shanty. This is one of the most unique groups on the New Orleans scene, and their third record finds them in excellent form. Frontman [...]
Warehouse Fest 2010 Saturday
October 13, 2010 – 12:24 pm
After writing the song “As the River Cries” for the BP Oil Spill benefit album Give to the Gulf, Volume 2, Coleman Jernigan decided that he wanted to use music to help further with the Spill recovery efforts. “I wanted to start something that could become an annual way to help local organizations in need,” [...]
YouTube du Jour: Free Agents Brass Band
September 16, 2010 – 11:39 am
Tonight, the Free Agents Brass Band has the Soul Rebels’ slot at Le Bon Temps Roule. Here are the Free Agents playing a Zulu event outside the Louisiana Music Factory.
Various Artists, Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways Records)
August 1, 2010 – 12:38 am
This collection from Smithsonian Folkways does what any visit to our origins should: broaden the mind. Beyond the sonic revelations, these recordings remind musicologists that the streets and churches are the source of New Orleans’ revolutionary sounds. Take a 1956 Mardi Gras Indians recording including the Second Ward Hunters and Third Ward Terrors recorded by [...]
Pair-O-Dice Tumblers Bastille Day Second Line: Slideshow
July 12, 2010 – 12:50 pm
Bastille Day was this past Saturday, and as the good former French colony that we are, New Orleans celebrated not only with a festival in Mid-City courtesy of the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association, but also a second line through the French Quarter led by the Pair-O-Dice Tumblers brass band. All photos were taken by [...]
YouTube du Jour: Soul Rebels
May 27, 2010 – 8:43 am
The Soul Rebels play their Thursday night party at Le Bon Temps Roule. Here they are at Threadgill’s in Austin, Texas last May.
Trombone Shorty, Backatown (Verve Forecast)
May 1, 2010 – 12:58 am
It didn’t take a genius to peg Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews as a national success waiting to happen. He’s young, good-looking and a born entertainer, he was also making credible jazz records when he was barely out of puberty. His roots are in the Treme Brass Band circuit—which, if the HBO series Treme does its [...]
YouTube du Jour: Rebirth Brass Band
March 2, 2010 – 12:21 pm
If it’s Tuesday night, Rebirth Brass Band’s at the Maple Leaf. Here they power a second line on the eve of Jazz Fest 2009.
Krewe of Eris, The Feasts of the Appetite of Eris (Domino Sound)
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Krewe of Eris is an annual Mardi Gras marching parade, a swarm of costumed miscreants who meet in the Bywater and meander through the Upper Ninth Ward and the French Quarter. More than 60 strong, they parade putting a premium on spirit over technique, warbling and screeching, squirming and flailing. Their cares are few, their [...]
