Issue Articles
Voodoo Experience Highlight: Bonerama featuring Dave Malone
New Orleans is full of musicians who epitomize the genre-busting goal of turning old school New Orleans music into an egalitarian mash-up, and no one has done more to realize […]
Kenny Wayne Shepherd: His Fathers’ Son
Shreveport may be at the opposite end of Louisiana from New Orleans, but both cities play a part in the state’s rich musical heritage. The great blues singer/songwriter/guitarist Leadbelly was […]
Obituary: Wardell Quezergue (1930-2011)
On the bright late summer morning of September 12 the crème fraiche façade of Corpus Christi-Epiphany Church gleamed optimistically amid this still-blighted Seventh Ward neighborhood along St. Bernard Avenue. Inside […]
Dave Malone Is Back in Action
While others in the Radiators hustled to define a post-Rads identity, frontman Dave Malone has taken his time. “There were some fans who wanted us to continue in whatever form […]
Trombone Shorty, For True (Verve Records)
Five years ago, a lot of people were wondering what the brightest young star of New Orleans music, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, was going to do next. Music industry insiders […]
Camile Baudoin’s Blues
When the Radiators played their final shows in June, few would have guessed that the band member most prepared for life in a new musical context would be Camile Baudoin. […]
Déjà Davis Rogan
It’s a Tuesday night at the Hi Ho Lounge and Alison Fensterstock sits at the bar waiting for contestants to solve her latest series of music trivia challenges. Her husband, […]
Trombone Shorty vs. Prince
The Montreal International Jazz Festival offers a broad palette of styles covering disparate jazz formats, and, like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and most other “jazz” festivals in […]
Shorty vs. Prince in Montreal
The Montreal International Jazz Festival offers a broad palette of styles covering disparate jazz formats, and, like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and most other “jazz” festivals in […]
Davis Rogan, The Real Davis (Sousaphonk Records)
Davis Rogan has a flair for the dramatic. His last album, The Once and Future DJ, was rescued from the flood before inspiring David Simon to base one of the […]
