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Free Download from King Louie’s Missing Monuments
Garage pop band Missing Monuments, led by rock veteran King Louie, are offering a free MP3 of the song “(It’s Like) XTC” from their recent album, Painted White. In Sam […]
YouTube du Jour: Amped!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qi5jXh4hY&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube] [NSFW] Supagroup’s online comedy series Amped! continues with a new episode. Today, the new version of the band plays together for the first time. Supagroup will play a White […]
YouTube du Jour: Natee
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRM0RT9oONk[/youtube] This brand-new video from local rapper Natee was released this past week. In the song, “Switch,” from her most recent mixtape Guess Who’s Coming 2 Dinner, Natee brags, jokes, […]
Gillian Welch at Tipitina’s, August 11
Gillian Welch is the truest kind of cool, the kind that lingers in the background letting the hotshots and attention hogs perform their circus acts and press junkets and media […]
Benefit for Mod Dance Party’s DJ Kristen
For a craftsperson, there’s nothing worse than the loss of one’s hands, the tools of one’s trade. And for a musician, the same is true for one’s ears, their own […]
YouTube du Jour: Alvin Youngblood Hart
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUaEWIXtCQ[/youtube] Blues guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart has become a regular performer at the Maple Leaf, and he returns to play there tonight. Here is he playing the classic “Gallows Pole.”
Blackfire Burns Again
It’s a Friday afternoon and J. R. Fields is preparing to close Truck Stop Clothing Co. for the night. Fields owns and operates the store on Magazine Street, where he […]
A T-Model Citizen
When 90-year-old James Lewis Carter Ford visits bars, he makes a special request. “Play Taledragger,” he’ll say. When the bartender obliges, Ford (better known as blues man T-Model Ford) grins […]
Clark Vreeland: Man of Mystery
Before there were Radiators, there were Rhapsodizers. Before New Orleans had art punk, it had Room Service. Skulking in the background of the city’s most innovative musical entities of the […]
Make Your Own Generationals
Remixers – start your ProTools. Generationals have posted two songs for remix from their recent album, Actor-Caster. The files for “Greenleaf” and “Ten-Twenty-Ten” are available for download here, along with […]
