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Spare Parts September 1991
Yo dudes and dudettes, the Spare Parts mailbox has been getting some action, so I’ll start off by plugging a society centered around a rather well known local writer. Sue […]
Rounder Records: Louisiana Sounds
Amidst the cavalcade of corporate clones that typify the record business, Rounder Records has carved a distinctive niche as a unique, diverse and successful independent outfit. Rounder’s rich catalog includes […]
All Tied Up: Almodovar Almost Takes Off
“Nobody’s perfect,” as Joe E. Brown said to Jack Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot, meaning his sex. Boy, that’s true! I spent all month looking around […]
Movers and Shakers: Music Scene Makers
If it be true that music makes the world go round, the question still remains: what makes the music? Obviously, the musician. But is that all? No—as many a talented-yet-poor […]
Jazz Fest!
Here’s the latest info on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. There are quite a few changes at this year’s Fest. In addition to more stages this year, the […]
Quint Davis: Quint Essential, Part One
Read Part Two of this interview with Quint Davis New Orleans music is hot—we all know it and the Grammy Awards proved it. And the Jazz Fest is the major […]
Revisionary Images
Visitors attending the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival enjoy a varied mix of local and regional as well as national performers. Throw in the kind of cuisine that abounds […]
The World Comes to Cajun Country
Imagine a mostly-free festival where you can hear master drummers from the African nation of Burundi, watch medieval Belgian stilt-dancers, listen to voodoo-influenced music from Haiti, dance to Caribbean zouk […]
Tipitina’s: The Legend Lives On
When you enter the door at Tipitina’s night club, you immediately view the first visible shrine to one of New Orleans’ musical patron saints, Henry Roeland Byrd, the one and […]
Masks: The Soul of Mardi Gras
No American city is more hospitable to those reptilian souls who wish to shed their old skin and try a new one. New Orleans is an international capital of transformations…and […]
