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The Handy Awards
Spring is here again, and a young man’s fancy turns lightly to one thing: the W.C. Handy Awards. (Okay, bear with me.) It’s the blues industry’s most prestigious awards ceremony, […]
Tabla Temptations
In March, the New Orleans jazz scene usually reflects a post-Mardi Gras, pre-Jazz Fest Lenten lull. Not so this year. The rich array of options, from major national talent like […]
Main Squeeze
City Puts The Squeeze on Local Music Clubs. I really don’t know why we put up with it. With all the hype about the city supporting music, presenting live music […]
Good Goth! It’s Borgessa!
What is Goth? The Teutonic barbarians who conquered the Roman Empire in the 3rd-century? Suburban kids dressed in black with a predilection for the novels of Anne Rice, the albums […]
St. Rock: Ovary Action’s Estrogenic Punk
Madigan Shive, the singer for Bonfire Madigan recently announced at Tipitina’s, “We’d like to thank Ovary Action for opening for us. I saw their name and thought, ‘That’s a good […]
Ill-literate: Hip-Hop’s Essential Reality
Hip-hop is repressed expression. The voice of those who have had no voice. It is all at once angry, sensitive, funny, sad, and joyous. Hip-hop culture worships masses of distinct […]
The Geraniums Are Blooming
The beautiful thing about the music business is that it’s full of surprises. For instance, over a year ago, Jeff Treffinger and Brendan Gallagher, two of the Mermaid Lounge’s owners, […]
Letters November 2000
BLACK & WHITE I’d like to respond to Bunny Matthews’ interview with Robert Mugge regarding Mugge’s film “Rhythm & Bayous: A Road Map of Louisiana Music.” In discussing the swamp […]
The Outlaw and the Genius: Blues Foundation Honors Ray Charles and Willie Nelson
They’re an unlikely pair on the surface, but Ray Charles and Willie Nelson actually share quite a bit in common, from their scrapes with the law to their personal tragedies, […]
Masking Take
Costuming, in New Orleans, is a religion. This religion has two high holy days–Halloween and Mardi Gras. Halloween is reserved for scary, outrageous and/or sexy costumes while Mardi Gras is […]
