Music
Various Artists, Playing for Change (Hear)
Much of mainstream music, in contrast to the indigenous, organic sound the producers of Playing for Change seek to capture during their globe-trotting recording sessions, is produced as commodity. Though […]
The Jazz Class Plays An Encore for New Orleans
The seven members of the first class to graduate from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz since its relocation to Loyola University’s Uptown campus in 2007 convened in the Superdome […]
School of Jazz
Hurricane Katrina’s cyclonic winds scattered New Orleans musicians all over the country, but perhaps the most unlikely of landing spots was a small YMCA in Rome, New York. There, displaced […]
Mastodon
4-12-09, Mastodon, House of Blues: Appraising the thinning headbanger manes assembled reverently around the House of Blues’ stage in anticipation of Mastodon’s Saturday night show, the metalheads in attendance weren’t […]
