“You come to a game; you come to experience New Orleans,” Hugh Weber, President of the New Orleans Hornets said this morning. At a press conference at Irvin Mayfield’s I Club, he and Irvin Mayfield announced an initiative to integrate New Orleans music into Hornets home games. Starting with Wednesday night’s preseason game against the [...]
Tag Archives: live music
Bring the Noise
September 21, 2011 – 11:02 am
In the wake of the bust of Bacchanal, supporters of live music in the city have portrayed government as being anti-live music. I don’t think that’s true in the sense that I don’t believe anyone on City Council or in government is actively hostile to live music. But it is passively hostile; government tends to [...]
Tropical Isle Returns Thursday Night
July 7, 2010 – 6:30 am
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 [...]
Music Without Bars
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
It was the most safe I ever felt in a pitch-black abandoned warehouse out by the train tracks. All I could see were silhouettes out the door against the foggy outline of the Crescent City Connection. All I could hear were the murmurs of the crowd and the occasional train horn. Suddenly, the puttering of [...]
Sondre Lerche
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
From Bergen, Norway, (now living in Brooklyn) Sondre Lerche was signed to Virgin/ EMI before his 16th birthday. His latest release Heartbeat Radio on Rounder Records follows his critically acclaimed soundtrack to the movie Dan in Real Life. His music is upbeat pop with elements of Brazilian, jazz and folk. Lerche’s distinctive voice and talent [...]
Slideshow: Bonus Photos from The Warehouse Music Club
January 5, 2010 – 3:06 pm
The current, January 2010, issue of OffBeat features a story on The Warehouse, one of the top music clubs in New Orleans during the 1970s. Its stage was graced by many of the cornerstone acts of classic rock, from The Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac on opening night to The Talking Heads the night The [...]
Club Scouting 1990
May 1, 1990 – 12:01 am
My Dearest Stella: I was filled with an overwhelming joy upon learning that you will be visiting the City of Sin for the Jazz Fest celebration. Knowing that you are a bohemian sort and a lover of good food and music, I’m sure you will want to spend as much time as possible wandering amongst [...]
