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Soundcheck: Five Questions with John Broven, author of Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans
John Broven has loved American music since he was a student at Bexhill Grammar School in Sussex, England. Broven’s distinguished writing career began in 1963 with the debut of Blues […]
The Music Box: Boxed In
“We like to do what turns us on artistically,” Delaney Martin, artistic director of New Orleans Airlift, declares of the nonprofit artists’ collective. Dreamed up amid post-Katrina destruction and delusion, […]
My Music: Nick the Swede
“I got my first drum set—if you don’t count the pots and pans my mom let my bang on the kitchen floor when I was a baby—when I was young. […]
Mohawks Before Mystikal and More: Sugar Bear at the House of Blues
Big Chief Walter “Sugar Bear” Landry, Jr. of the Black Mohawks Mardi Gras Indians has been masking since the early ’50s, when his grandmother’s boyfriend first began teaching the young […]
10 Prince Songs that Local Artists Should Cover
Much as we love “Purple Rain,” we’d hate to see it become the one Prince song everybody starts covering—not when there are so many dozens of buried treasures in the […]
Five Questions with Ron Canedo, Director of the New Orleans Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society
What is the perfect cocktail to you? It’s an easy one: bourbon. Could be a splash of water if you need it, but bourbon. I come from a Southern family, […]
Cool Brew
“I love a great stout or porter,” Jacob Landry, founder and president of Urban South Brewery says, “but a beer must be tailored to climate and place. It’s so freaking […]
Five Questions with Cyril Neville on Playing Essence Festival
This is the first time you are performing at the Essence Festival. That seems surprising since it began 22 years ago. Why do you think you were invited now? A […]
Old Glory
Even in a city filled with lore and legend, the Pontchartrain Hotel still stands tall. Rising high in the sky at its Garden District–adjacent address of 2031 St. Charles Avenue, […]
My Music: Khris Royal
“I started playing keyboards first because my cousin used to play keys in church. I would sit behind him and play keys and then I started playing drums a little […]
