Timecode:NOLA Film Festival Returns to French Quarter Fest

After a popular inaugural year in 2013, Timecode:NOLA will offer an expanded Film Festival at the 2014 French Quarter Festival featuring films about some of the region’s most memorable characters. […]

How “Mardi Gras Mambo” Became an Unlikely Carnival Anthem

Down in New Orleans where the blues was born, It takes a cool cat to blow a horn On LaSalle and Rampart Street, the combos play with a mambo beat […]

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French Quarter Fest 2014 Line-Up Announced, Poster Released

New Orleans’ largest free festival, the French Quarter Festival, announced its 2014 programming this morning; a line-up that once again expands the growing annual fest with a new stage, new […]

TIMECODE:NOLA FF2 –
More Than Just A Film Fest

New Orleans’ rising indie filmmakers collective, Timecode:NOLA (the crew that curated the first Louisiana music films series at French Quarter Fest this past spring, and the eccentric One Reel Super […]

T’Ain’t It The Truth: Acclaim for Ben Sandmel and Ernie K-Doe Book

As the man himself was fond of saying, there ain’t but one Ernie K-Doe. And there ain’t but one K-Doe biography, Ben Sandmel’s “Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New […]

Egg Yolk Jubilee, Fried (Independent)

It can’t be easy getting a coherent CD out of a band that simply won’t calm down. And to their credit, nobody tries to rein in Egg Yolk Jubilee on […]

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New from Piety: Faithfull and Laurie

Last year, Marianne Faithfull and actor Hugh Laurie (star of House) made pilgrimages to Piety Street Recording to cut albums, each with some measure of New Orleans beyond the studio […]