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YouTube du Jour: Dam-Funk
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYf_qrw2WQ[/youtube] Last night, L.A.-based DJ/electro-boogie producer Dam-Funk was among the lucky handful on hand at Preservation Hall to see producer Mark Ronson perform a late night set with Erykah Badu, […]
Watch Trombone Shorty’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Recently, Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue traveled to the NPR’s All Things Considered offices to record a 13-minute performance for the program’s Tiny Desk Concert series, in which […]
Explosions in the Sky at Tipitina’s: Photos
Wednesday evening, Austin-based “post-rock” band Explosions in the Sky blew the roof off of a sold-out Tipitina’s, and “blew the roof off” we mean they very methodically, introspectively, and intensely […]
Khris Royal’s Royal Education
Oak Street is quiet on a Wednesday night. This strip of secondhand stores, head shops and coffeehouses in the Riverbend lies empty but for the occasional taxi and mohawked bicycle […]
YouTube du Jour: George Jones
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y[/youtube] He may have recently turned 80, but country music legend George Jones will perform at the Mahalia Jackson Theater Sunday. Here he is in 1980 playing what was then […]
Frenchy Documentary King of Oak Street Now On Sale
King of Oak Street, a documentary about the New Orleans painter and Oak Street gallery owner Randy “Frenchy” Frechette, is now available for purchase, after first premiering in fall 2009 […]
Explosions in the Sky in Tipitina’s: Concert Review
Call it what you will—the sound of raging Vikings, the sound of mastodons fucking, the sound of intermittently football-related high school melodrama—but there is no debating the fact that Explosions […]
Junior Boys Becoming Junior Men?
“I wanted to be honest about my anxieties, and a lot of my anxieties have to do with turning 30 – losing touch, losing sight of your youth. I wanted […]
YouTube du Jour: Yelawolf
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcCDRzjtWg[/youtube] Alabama rapper Yelawolf was last in town to join Blink 182’s Travis Barker and Mixmaster Mike when they opened for Lil Wayne this spring. Tonight, he’s at the House […]
Video du Jour: Trombone Shorty’s “Do To Me”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgMGuEf87Y[/youtube] Today, Trombone Shorty released his first proper video, “Do to Me,” from For True. The song features Jeff Beck on guitar (who doesn’t make an appearance in the video), […]
