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YouTube du Jour: Honey Island Swamp Band
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1Nmh6oVcg[/youtube] Tonight, the Honey Island Swamp Band plays Tipitina’s Free Fridays show. Here they are live in the studio playing “Wishing Well.”
Bastille Day Celebration in French Market: Photo Slideshow
[flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157624500658706″] Yesterday, Bastille Day was celebrated with a short parade from Cafe du Monde to the Joan of Arc statue, punctuated by remarks from leaders of some of […]
A Sneak Preview of New Jake Smith
Acoustic rocker Jake Smith has a new album, Everyone Comes from Somewhere, due out September 14. You can download a preview of it, “One False Step,” here. Earlier this year, […]
YouTube du Jour: Colin Lake
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8BvAmKsLw[/youtube] Tonight, acoustic blues artist Colin Lake plays the Ogden Museum’s “Ogden After Hours” series. Here’s footage of him as part of coverage of the Telluride Blues Festival in 2007, […]
YouTube du Jour: Shamarr Allen, Dee-1 and Friends
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTn9tqU-mE[/youtube] Oil spill-related songs are starting to appear. Threadhead-related artists recently released “Nobody Knows Nothin’,” and here’s Shamarr Allen, Dee-1, Benny Pete and more on “Sorry Ain’t Enough No More,” […]
YouTube du Jour: Curren$y Pilot Talk Release Party
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsJJd2r92E[/youtube] Tonight, current young hip-hop phenom and New Orleans native Curren$y is hosting a free album release party at Republic, with local DJs EF Cuttin, DJ Chicken, and DJ Slab […]
YouTube du Jour: Osborne, Fohl and Sansone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVoCRlVqDg[/youtube] The weekly woodshed sessions with Anders Osborne, John Fohl and Johnny Sansone have evolved into something more than just an occasion to work out new material. This year, they […]
Tip’s Studies the Value of Co-Ops
[UPDATED] When singer Margie Perez moved to New Orleans in 2004, she struggled to break into the local music scene. She was aided by the Tipitina’s Foundation Musicians Co-Op, a […]
Pair-O-Dice Tumblers Bastille Day Second Line: Slideshow
[flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157624354043845″] Bastille Day was this past Saturday, and as the good former French colony that we are, New Orleans celebrated not only with a festival in Mid-City courtesy […]
Steve Earle on Emmys, Treme and New Orleans
[UPDATED] Last week, the Emmy nominations were announced and HBO’s Treme received two—a Best Director nomination for Agnieszka Holland for the first episode, and Best Song for Steve Earle for […]
