The Los Angeles Times features Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog discussing the seemingly insane “remake” of The Bad Lieutenant, and how prop cocaine can be an effective stand-in for the real stuff. Randy Newman talks to Variety about coming up with the music for Disney’s new The Princess and the Frog animated feature. “I’ve been dredging [...]
Tag Archives: Tulane
Dan Deacon
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
4-13-09, Dan Deacon, Freeman Auditorium: I am holding hands with a shoeless girl in Freeman Auditorium on Tulane’s campus as Dan Deacon launches into another electronic dance anthem. There is no romance, however, at least not in the Shakespearean sense. She and I happened to end up across from each other in the human tunnel [...]
Wings Make the Man
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
There’s a strain of African-American gospel music indigenous to Louisiana in which loud electric guitars and rough-throated vocals dominate, with stomping rhythms and declamatory repetitions that sound like a sanctified blues or a proto rock ’n’ roll. Elder Utah Smith made that music—an electric guitar-toting evangelist of the Pentecostal faith Church of God in Christ [...]
John Doheny and the Professors of Pleasure, Tulane University Faculty Quintet (Independent)
December 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
John Doheny and the Professors of Pleasure strike the perfect balance between pedagogy and practice. The Tulane music school Faculty Quintet offers a rundown of several jazz styles as well as a primer in how to approach playing them. Drummer Kevin O’Day, who contributes so much in the many hats he wears on the [...]
The Radiators: Rock Solid for 20 Years
August 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
New Orleans’ longest-running and most successful rock band was launched, with the help of free Michelob, unlimited pizza, and a chainsaw. When Dave Malone, Camile Baudoin, Ed Volker, Reggie Scanlan and Frank Bua formed The Radiators in January of 1978, their first regular performances were weekly Wednesday night shows at Luigi’s Pizza Parlor on Elysian [...]
