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YouTube du Jour: Creole String Beans
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjX6GWxhGeg[/youtube] Tonight, New Orleans’ Creole String Beans play their CD-release party at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl for their new album, Shrimp Boots & Vintage Suits. In his review of the […]
Nicholas Payton’s Bitches Album Sees Commercial Release
After Nicholas Payton‘s infectious, groove-heavy album Bitches was rejected by Concord Records in 2010, Payton leaked it online for free download in November that year. In early 2011 it appeared […]
New Orleans Film Festival: Top 5 Picks For Thursday, October 20
The New Orleans Film Festival concludes today after a week of many excellent films and even some music. Knowing how hard it is to catch all the films one wants […]
Prospect.2 Opens This Weekend
A couple of weeks before the opening of Prospect.2, Dan Cameron’s a little giddy. The founder and artistic director of the New Orleans contemporary art biennial is standing in what […]
YouTube du Jour: Panic! at the Disco
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgpdp3lP8M[/youtube] Compulsively clever rock band Panic! at the Disco received a scare last week when singer Brendon Urie took ill and was unable to perform for fear he had contracted […]
New Orleans Film Festival: Top 5 Picks For Wednesday, October 19
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YouTube du Jour: Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6KZr470bjE[/youtube] Recently, Jon Cleary has reconnected to New Orleans R&B in a major way. At Jazz Fest, he announced that he was recording an album of classic compositions and played […]
New Orleans Film Festival: Top 5 Picks For Tuesday, October 18
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Helen Hill’s The Florestine Collection Showing at New Orleans Film Festival
“She decided she wanted to make a film about the connection she felt as an artist to this woman that she’d never met,” says Rene Broussard, Executive Director of the […]
YouTube du Jour: 7 Walkers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nadGKFJYark[/youtube] Tonight, 7 Walkers play Tipitina’s. The band includes Papa Mali, Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and George Porter, Jr., and while their self-titled debut album focuses on the band’s […]
