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Expect the Unexpected: Shamarr Allen keeps it True Orleans
Shamarr Allen is riding high on touring across the country with the imminent release of the True Orleans 2 album, his first in five years. He’s both a son of New Orleans and a U.S. Cultural Ambassador who talks as real as it gets. We sat down in his studio to get the word on his world.
Heir To The New Orleans Rap Throne: Rob49s climb to hip-hop stardom
Heir To The New Orleans Rap Throne. Rob49’s climb to hip-hop stardom
Genius and Depth: Jon Batiste always smiles when talking about New Orleans
Of course, Batiste always seems to be smiling. His effervescence helped propel him to global fame as bandleader/cohort on Late Night With Stephen Colbert from its start in 2015 to August 2022, when he left to focus on his own projects. Well, that and his prodigious musical talents and scope as he’s showcased his vast, ever-expanding universe of soul, R&B, pop, jazz and classical.
Give Me Back My Loving: Leo Nocentelli’s stripped-down and soulful other side
Give Me Back My Loving: Leo Nocentelli’s stripped-down and soulful other side. There’s one side of Leo Nocentelli that everybody knows. That would be the funk cornerstones he laid down as a member of the Meters, songs that one band or another will inevitably play at Jazz Fest.
Samantha Fish: Blues Expression and Punk Power, an electrifying performer
With a new album on the way and global tour dates in 2023, the New Orleans-based Samantha Fish is in the thick of an escalating career.
We All The Way Outside: Flagboy Giz tells his Mardi Gras Indian story
Confederate flags, old plantations, pee row boats and shuttle busses inspired Flagboy Giz, the hip-hop blogger/activist turned Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian, to make one of the most important artistic expressions of his career. And it was all made out of his swamp tours on the Northshore in late 2019.
Positive Vibes: Mike Dillon Is The Musician Who Can’t Say No
Percussionist Mike Dillon’s presence and talents are coveted
Come On & Get It, Honey: Judith Owen’s lusty love letter to New Orleans
Come On & Get It, Honey: Judith Owen’s love letter to New Orleans. When Judith Owen and her sister were kids in the London suburbs, they danced around and sang along to the jumping swing-blues of Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends’ “The Spinach Song,” a 1949 single in their dad’s jazz collection.
Little Freddie King: Best Of The Beat Lifetime Achievement In Music
Best Of The Beat: Lifetime Achievement In Music – Little Freddie King, Little Freddie King’s Remarkable Lifetime Achievements Have Only Just Begun.
