Issue Articles — Fresh
Royal at Midnight: Self-taught New Orleans musician releases debut single
The flicker of gaslight lanterns in the rain, the uneven brick sidewalks, the wrought-iron balconies adorned with plants, the neon signs hanging on every corner—these sights inspired Brock Wimberley to […]
35th Annual Creole Tomato Festival
This year the Creole Tomato Festival at the French Market will present virtual and in-person activities. MUSIC Streaming on the Facebook pages (@FrenchMarket) and the New Orleans Jazz National Historical […]
Alligator Records: Fifty years loving the blues
The blues brought Bruce Iglauer to Chicago in 1970. A blues fan since he attended a 1966 festival performance by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Cincinnati native Iglauer founded Alligator Records in […]
Back on the Block: Blake Amos’ love letter to New Orleans
Blake Amos has been on the New Orleans music scene for decades. One of his earliest bands played at Café Brasil in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Frenchmen […]
Vintage Vinyl Music Quest, Episode 3
This month’s installment of Music Quest for vintage vinyl features albums released by two artists who both passed away at just 25 years of age. Both were accomplished well beyond […]
Music Quest: Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 2)
Eclectic is a good word to describe this score of five vintage albums, and at an average cost of just $5 per album, color me a happy boy! This group […]
Meow, Monsieur! Filmmaker Jim Gabour writes about New Orleans cats
Jim Gabour, the filmmaker whose many music projects include Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans and Terence Blanchard’s Grammy-nominated Flow: Living in the Stream of Music, also writes and illustrates […]
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: Taj Mahal with Jon Cleary
The pandemic has touched everyone’s life in too many ways. Withdrawal symptoms from life as we knew it abound as fatigue with all the fear and precautions sets in. The […]
Music Quest: Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring
In 2020 vinyl sales exceeded CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s. Vinyl records accounted for $232.1 million of music sales in the first […]
Dancing in the Streets: The Historic New Orleans Collection honors a New Orleans tradition
When Sylvester Francis gave tours of the Backstreet Cultural Museum, which he founded in 1999, he often offered this sage advice: “It’s better to be two hours early to a […]
