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Ring the Alarm: Spring Record Raid at Tulane Saturday
With the addition of the Euclid Records store in the Bywater this past fall, the vinyl record market in New Orleans is at its strongest post-K, with other stores Louisiana […]
YouTube du Jour: Sachal Vasandani
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS_rcsX1AYY [/youtube] While young female jazz vocalists are fairly common, young males aren’t. Enter Chicago-born Sachal Vasandani, who’s attracted attention for his ability to incorporate the pop that’s inescapable growing […]
Found Footage Festival Brings the Worst in VHS Tapes to Chalmette
“Let’s begin,” Greer Childers says. She sports an enormous perm and a shiny pink leotard. She stares into the video camera, which is filming in what appears to be her […]
Vimeo du Jour: Big Freedia
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21349369[/vimeo] Big Freedia, the bounce rapper voted Best Emerging Artist and Best Hip-Hop/Rap Artist in January’s Best of the Beat Awards, released her first official music video yesterday for her […]
YouTube du Jour: Pinetop Perkins
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL2XSW2rJwk[/youtube] Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins passed away yesterday in his home in Austin, Texas at the age of 97. The nonagenarian had been playing music professionally since the Great Depression, […]
New Orleans Boasts Six Nominations for 2011 James Beard Awards
The nominees for this year’s James Beard Awards were announced today, and New Orleans’ restaurants and chefs tallied six nominations all together. The awards are given out annually in May […]
Mardi Gras Indians on Super Sunday: Photo Slideshow
While Mardi Gras Indians still mask and walk the streets when night falls on St. Joseph’s Day (see photos from Indians on this year’s St. Joseph’s night HERE), the big […]
St. Joseph’s Day Altars and Mardi Gras Indians at Night: Photo Slideshow
Traditionally, St. Joseph’s Day was the only day of the year other than Fat Tuesday on which the Mardi Gras Indians would don their suits and masks. Nowadays of course, […]
YouTube du Jour: The Fleshtones
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JiQ-RInVnk[/youtube] In the mid-1980s, the Fleshtones were a Mardi Gras fixture at Jimmy’s, playing rock ‘n’ roll dance parties that ended up with the band in the crowd, on the […]
Mardi Gras Indians Convene on Super Sunday
With St. Joseph’s Day tomorrow, the Mardi Gras Indian Council will be hosting its annual Super Sunday festival and parade this Sunday, March 20 at A.L. Davis Park. The festival […]
