When it started, it was a long, rectangular room with a couple wooden racks for records and CDs on a section of North Peters street that had very little going on. Twenty years later it’s a must-visit store for the legions of New Orleans music lovers around the world, but Barry Smith, owner of the [...]
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tUnE-yArDs at One Eyed Jacks and Domino Sound Record Shack: Photos
October 4, 2011 – 5:09 pm
This weekend buzzing indie artist tUnE-yArDs—the stage name for multi-instrumentalist Merrill Garbus—came to town for a Sunday night concert at One Eyed Jacks. Armed with a ukulele, keyboard, bass player, and numerous drums and other percussion, Garbus played songs from her new album w h o k i l l, released in April. The next [...]
Digital Music and An Old Fart Like Me
October 20, 2010 – 3:33 pm
Just had lunch with the OffBeat staff, and we had some interesting conversations about music that made me think about how things have changed so drastically over the past 10 years. We were talking about how difficult it is to find so-called “world music” on any of the digital sites. I am a member of [...]
Euclid Records Grand Opening Party: Photo Slideshow
September 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Euclid Records, the St. Louis-based record store, opened its brand-spankin’-new 504 branch with a bang this weekend, hosting a two-day party of live music, PBR, grilled chicken, empanadas, snoballs, and lots of records. These photos are from Sunday, September 5, when Guitar Lightning Lee was performing. All photos were taken by Kim Welsh.
Euclid Records Shop Grand Opening September 4 and 5
September 2, 2010 – 12:13 am
Vinyl fans rejoice! Brand new Bywater music shop Euclid Records opened its doors for their first day of business yesterday, offering up thousands of used and new LPS, 45s, CDs (they still make those?) and other musical goodies. Rumors from the inaugural day (via Facebook) are that guitarist/singer King Louie bought a Billy Preston record [...]
Dancing with Walt Boatner
November 1, 2001 – 12:01 am
Currently holding down the weekend graveyard shift at Blues 1280, WODT, smooth-voiced Walt Boatner is a pioneer in black New Orleans broadcasting. Besides being a mainstay of New Orleans AM radio in the 1960s, between 1969 and 1972 he hosted the Walt Boatner Show, a very popular local African-American dance/music television program. Think of a [...]
