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New from Piety: Faithfull and Laurie
Last year, Marianne Faithfull and actor Hugh Laurie (star of House) made pilgrimages to Piety Street Recording to cut albums, each with some measure of New Orleans beyond the studio […]
Marquee Girls? Some Moon?
While New York tries to clean up from Hurricane Irene’s devastation—newspaper boxes almost tipped over!—it seems appropriate to review two New York-centric entries in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series: Marquee […]
The ‘Q, That’s Who?
One of my favorite post-Jazz Fest shows was an NRBQ show at Jimmy’s that began with the room so packed that I was sitting on top of a videogame by […]
The Silence Wars
Last night’s Gillian Welch show at Tipitina’s left me wondering if I’d ever bother with an acoustic show in a club again. She was charmingly self-deprecating without having it seem […]
A Little Urgency, Please
In her editorial this week, publisher Jan Ramsey advocated moving Satchmo SummerFest to Armstrong Park, which is a provocative idea. FQFI, the festival’s producers, would have to find a nearby […]
OffBeat on the Spot
We were as curious as everybody else was about Spotify, the online music service, and so far we’ve enjoyed hunting around the back corners of its music library to see […]
Something’s Missing
Last night, WWL-TV ran a story about “illegal bars” causing noise complaints on Frenchmen Street. Which clubs are they? Reporter Scott Satchfield spoke to our own Jan Ramsey (who doesn’t […]
Always More Bob
At this point, it feels a little obsessive to scrutinize yet another Bob Dylan show. Still, it’s hard not to because there’s always something there worth thinking about afterwards, even […]
Irony is a Bitter Taskmaster
[Updated] Saturday afternoon, my wife and friends and I heard a great song on BBC 6 and tried to figure out who it was? Adele? Duffy? At the end of […]
Tales of the Tales
Tales of the Cocktail routinely poses the question, “How much can you handle?” As a media member, I was handed a large empty bag and shown to a room where […]
