Music
The Wee Trio, Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective (Bionic Records)
In 2011, Cliff Hines brought together young jazz and indie rock musicians for a night of music by David Bowie at One Eyed Jacks. James Westfall was among the musicians […]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Award: George Porter, Jr.
In George Porter, Jr.’s attic studio, he has a laminated, yellowed page from the 1970s with a story on the Meters from a British music magazine hanging on his wall. […]
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Hornets Put the “i” in Hive
This season, the New Orleans Hornets and Irvin Mayfield’s I Club are working together to bring the city’s music to the game. A live band will play throughout home games […]
The Blues Music Awards: Who’s the Bluest?
[Updated] Tab Benoit and Johnny Sansone received four nominations each by the Blues Foundation for their annual Blues Music Awards. The winners will be announced on May 10 at the […]
Wizard World Comic Con: When Titans Clash
What happens when the high lords of fandom meet? Star Trek/T.J. Hooker/Boston Legal/Sh*! My Dad Says star William Shatner famously told fans to “Get a life” on a […]
New Orleans in New York
The Backbeat Foundation is taking a host of New Orleans artists to New York City January 6-8. For the fourth year, Export NOLA is an official showcase series at the […]
Camile Baudoin and the Living Rumors, Old Bayou Blues (Threadhead Records)
The band name for the long-time Radiators’ guitarist tells the story. Old Bayou Blues is the sound of friends sitting around on a porch in a living room singing songs […]
Burke Ingraffia, Jazz Animals (Independent)
“If you want to play it smart / you’ve got to dumb it down,” Burke Ingraffia sings on Jazz Animals, and that sentiment looms over the album. “Checks and Balances” […]
Big Pearl, Double Faces (Independent)
The band name and cover art are pleasantly misleading. They suggest that this will be more in the Janis Joplinesque mode that singer Lani Ramos initially made her calling card, […]
Ani DiFranco
Folk singer Ani DiFranco moved to New Orleans approximately eight years ago, but she has entered the city’s musical community discreetly, playing the occasional show such as last year’s Gulf […]
