The local hip-hop community celebrates a big milestone Saturday, when the Grassroots! concert series celebrates its 10-year anniversary at the Dragon’s Den. Lyrikill, Chels, Thaione Davis, Marcel P. Black will perform with resident DJ Def D and founding host Truth Universal. Grassroots! has been crucial to the underground hip-hop scene in New Orleans. It began [...]
Tag Archives: Hurricane Katrina
Truckstop Honeymoon: A Musician’s Life and Half a Cow
February 1, 2012 – 12:13 am
After six years in Lawrence, Kansas, former Lower Ninth Ward duo Mike West and Katie Euliss have expanded their family from four to six and added five albums to their discography as Truckstop Honeymoon. There are other things to brag about as well, such as chickens and hamsters and the daily triumph of sanity. They [...]
YouTube du Jour: Stalley
December 20, 2011 – 12:03 am
Tonight, rapper Stalley performs at the Howlin Wolf. Although he hails from Cleveland, he worked with local director Brandan Odums/Bmike (nominated for a Best of the Beat Award for Best Music Video) for a tour through New Orleans in this video for his song “Babblin’”. Produced for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the video [...]
Flood Streets: Shooting the Streets
October 1, 2011 – 12:15 am
Other than Juvenile’s wildly irresponsible
MSNBC’s Schultz Spends Katrina Anniversary on Health Care
August 30, 2011 – 10:47 am
“Why can’t we have health care?” Frank Lewis is in his 50s, and he’s talking to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz in the convention center. Schultz, host of The Ed Show on weeknights, is walking around in black slacks and a black short-sleeved shirt with a camera crew listening to comments and concerns from people who are [...]
Charmaine Neville Band, Before the Storm (Independent)
August 1, 2011 – 12:55 am
In May 2005, the Charmaine Neville Band undertook what was to be a six-month recording project: to record her weekly performances at Snug Harbor, where Neville had performed on Monday nights since the 1980s. It was to be a window for the listener into what a jazz band can do and how it can evolve, [...]
City Songs: John Swenson’s New Atlantis and Keith Spera’s Groove Interrupted
August 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
Television before Treme treated musicians as outsiders—frequently as degenerates, at least as self-absorbed and often predatory. The HBO drama implies that they’re just as much a part of a city as lawyers, laborers and bar owners, and it’s a theme that writers John Swenson and Keith Spera echo in their new books. In New Atlantis, [...]
Blackfire Burns Again
July 29, 2011 – 6:03 am
It’s a Friday afternoon and J. R. Fields is preparing to close Truck Stop Clothing Co. for the night. Fields owns and operates the store on Magazine Street, where he has created a southern blues rock atmosphere. Vintage denim, leather, boots, trucker caps and belt buckles are scattered throughout, all complemented by a Kegerator tucked [...]
C. Ray Nagin Makes the Rounds
June 21, 2011 – 10:35 am
Yesterday, former Mayor Ray Nagin was on television promoting his book, Katrina’s Secrets, which was self-published through CreateSpace, as Jon Stewart noticed on The Daily Show. Nagin did this, he said, for fear that his voice would be “toned down.” “Once you turn a manuscript over to a publisher, you never know what happens,” he [...]
