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Dressed To Swing
1 p.m. on a Sunday is a pretty early meeting time for any musician who had a Saturday night gig on Frenchmen Street, but St. Louis Slim has defied gravity […]
Heavy Medal for Preservation Hall
On November 9, President George W. Bush awarded the Preservation Hall Jazz Band the National Medal Of Arts at a ceremony in the White House. One of the nation’s highest […]
Learning The Blues Again
To catch a break in the music business, it certainly it helps to have talent. However, a little luck, and being in the right place at the right time doesn’t […]
Do You Know…Metronome The City?
Who: Metronome The City is a four-piece instrumental rock band consisting of locals William Gilbert, Patrick Condon, Brad Theard and Marc LaPorte, several of whom are Loyola graduates. The band […]
The Beat Goes On
At OffBeat’s tent at the Voodoo Music Experience, T’Shanda Baldridge of Gonzales, Louisiana subscribed to “The Weekly Beat,” thus entering a drawing for a brand new Fender Stratocaster courtesy of […]
Tis the Season
In honor of the election season, Mem Shannon has a funky new “single” available for download titled “Good-Bye Mr. President (Time For You to Go).” It’s available for download for […]
Create a Disturbance
Stanton Moore can’t sit still. In person, his hands are in constant motion, and musically, he’s drumming with Galactic, releasing his own album—III, recorded in Preservation Hall with Robert Walter […]
Terrance Simien Gets A Little Help
Terrance Simien was born and raised in Mallet, Louisiana, a tiny village in St. Landry Parish that doesn’t even have a traffic light. He moved to the nearest metropolitan city […]
Road Tips with Suplecs
Recently, Austin’s Reckless Kelly released Reckless Kelly Was Here, a live album that comes with a DVD that features band members explaining how they use rubber bands to tell their […]
Giving the Drummer Some
Delfeayo Marsalis chats about a broad range of topics including Minions Dominion, recorded with the late, great Elvin Jones. When Delfeayo Marsalis went into the studio to […]
