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Tribal without Tattoos
The Bingo! Parlour will be one of the more unusual venues during the Voodoo Music Experience. In addition to hosting performances by Down, Fischerspooner, the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Why […]
Bigger, Badder Blues
Festivals have become an essential part of the city’s life, ranging from the costly mega-productions such as the annual Essence, French Quarter and Jazz fests, to the more intimate Satchmo […]
Troubadours Today
Rockpile is a moveable feast of poetry, performance and music featuring bay area poets David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. On Friday, October 23, Meltzer, Rothenberg, Terri Carrion and local poet […]
That’s the Joint
The famous singles of Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, the Dixie Cups and Lloyd Price continue to loom large over New Orleans music. In 2008, Harrah’s Entertainment Manager Bill Johnston created […]
Punk’s Not Dead
Raw, stripped-down, in-your-face punk infiltrated American music in the mid-1970s, inciting an entire subculture to Rebel! Proclaim! Liberate! Punk was a movement of mass consciousness among youth, and new wave—a […]
Songs for the Saints
It’s no secret that New Orleans music and culture has a bit of a love affair with itself. Anyone who’s lived here understands that a big part of life in […]
Ace Honored
Although its head office was located 185 miles away in Jackson, Mississippi, Ace Records was in effect New Orleans’ first independent record label. It was owned by the gregarious Johnny […]
Live Music on Freret Street, F’Real?
Freret Street finally gets its horns this fall. The Box Office at La Nuit will host brass bands and traditional New Orleans jazz and blues starting September 5. The show, […]
Bringing Burlesque Back One G-String at a Time
New Orleans traffics in titillation, and though tastes change, the compulsion to see a little skin is the same as it was 60 years ago. “If tourists go down bourbon […]
The Cinema Show
“Before we had any music written, we had these visual ideas of how things were going to be,” says A Living Soundtrack bassist/keyboardist Nick Lauve. “We just tried to make […]
