Blogs
Ledisi on Christmas Music
R&B singer Ledisi grew up in New Orleans before moving to Oakland as a young teen, and she’ll return to New Orleans to perform a free Christmas concert Sunday at […]
NO on TV
Tonight at 8 p.m. CST, VH1 Soul (Channel 362 on Cox Cable) presents a new episode of Soul Cities with Nelson George, this time featuring New Orleans. The segment was […]
Swinging Christmases
Unfortunately, we received Harry Connick, Jr.’s What a Night!: a Christmas Album too late for our Christmas wrap-up in the December issue. Around the same time, Tony Bennett’s A […]
Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Homemade World
You don’t expect to hear Mr. Quintron discuss a water pump. The world of Quintron and his wife/percussionist/puppeteer Miss Pussycat is rarely so mundane, but while in New York City […]
David Egan, You Don’t Know Your Mind (Out of the Past/Rhonda Sue)
Lafayette songwriter and piano player David Egan doesn’t hurry his art, releasing his second album in five years with You Don’t Know Your Mind. It stands out for its range—not […]
Dash Rip Rock, Country Girlfriend (Abitian)
You get the impression that with a case a beer, a couple of joints and a half-tuned guitar, Bill Davis can write a Dash Rip Rock album. That’s not a […]
Bobby Lounge, Somethin’s Wrong (Abitian)
If we’re honest in New Orleans, we’d admit that we believe the region and the state revolve around us. We see our influence everywhere we look (whether it’s there or […]
The Abitians, New Mardi Gras Classics (Abitian)
If we’re honest in New Orleans, we’d admit that we believe the region and the state revolve around us. We see our influence everywhere we look (whether it’s there or […]
Obsession
During today’s Saints game, a friend observed, “Sean Peyton with Reggie Bush is like a guy who learned a 50-cent word and can’t stop using it.”
