Issue Articles
Brass-A-Holics Autonomous
The Brass-A-Holics have made a powerful impact on the New Orleans music scene in an extremely short period of time. Formed in 2010 by trombonist Winston Turner, one of the […]
Tom Leggett: Spinnin’ My Wheels (Independent)
Tom Leggett was part of the generation of transplanted musicians who created a new landscape in New Orleans during the latter part of the 1990s. Like so many of his […]
Tommy Malone Puts It All Back Together
We’ll never know if the federal flood following Hurricane Katrina put a final nail in the subdudes’ coffin, but the band had put together one of its final albums earlier […]
Return of the Tin Men
No New Orleans band combines the city’s unique blend of musicianship, sense of humor and sheer eccentricity better than the Tin Men. The instrumental lineup is singular—Alex McMurray on guitar […]
Papa Grows Funk: Hanging Up Mr. Patterson’s Hat
Papa Grows Funk the high-powered New Orleans funk band put together by keyboardist John Gros and guitarist June Yamagishi back at the end of the 1990s, wraps up its history […]
Spencer Bohren: Tempered Steel (Valve Records)
Buy on Amazon When Spencer Bohren decided to form a group called the Whippersnappers with his son Andre, he took time out from his whirlwind schedule to review his recording […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Focus:
Alex McMurray
On a recent Saturday evening Alex McMurray filled Siberia with an audience that hung on every word of his compositions, a catalog that ranges from wry to wistful to ribald. […]
Aaron Neville: One Man’s True Story
The secret to Aaron Neville’s genius has been hiding in plain sight all these years. His perfectly balanced voice, a warm, conversational tenor that modulates effortlessly into an ethereal falsetto […]
French Quarter Fest 2013 Focus: Los Po-Boy-Citos
Los Po-Boy-Citos came out of the box dancing in 2008 with New Orleans Latin Soul, an ingenious hybrid of 60s-style Latin boogaloo and New Orleans second line funk, and followed […]
Back in Style: Big Al Carson Takes His Ass Back to Bourbon Street
Big Al Carson is an essential element in the midway of exotic attractions populating Bourbon Street, but you really have to live in New Orleans, or a parallel universe, to […]
