Blogs
An Endangered Species?
In the Comments on Zachary Young’s “The Noise Goes on Forever,” one reader writes: I think it is equally short-sighted to compare the jazz musicians of the 19th and early […]
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at Home
In 2009, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) won a Grammy for Book One, but it has never performed the album in New Orleans. On January 21 at House of […]
A Seasonal Desk-Clearing
This may continue into next week, but I’ve got CDs here that I had the best intentions of writing about but never made it to somehow, starting with: Bob Dylan: […]
The Road to Christmas
Some quickies: – Monday night while I was DJ’ing a Christmas party at the Saint, someone came up and told me to “pump the bass” on “Christmas Time is Here” […]
Singles Going Steady
Today at HuffingtonPost.com, producer Don Was busts iTunes for not including liner notes or production information. In it, he talks about how life-affecting the liner notes for Frank Zappa’s Freak […]
New Lil Wayne: “6’7”
Lil Wayne’s been out of prison for a month, so it’s no surprise that the prolific rapper already has a new single – “6’7″”. If there’s any news, it’s that […]
Mimickry in the Spirit of the Season
Last night, our lack of memory of Will Farrell movies cost us the win at 45 Tchoup’s Monday night trivia, but I’m not holding it against him. In the spirit […]
State Secrets?
It was nice to finally be able to relax during the fourth quarter of a Saints game this season, though some were a little too relaxed. Mass exodus with 10 […]
A Christmas Lesson
Today I ran across this: I waited with great anticipation for Not So Silent Night: Christmas with REO Speedwagon because I thought “this is it, this is gonna rock the Yuletide.” But […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Went to the opening night party for DesCours, and while none of the sites were open, a piece installed in the DesCours HQ promised good things. So […]
