Issue Articles
Get You a Healin’: New projects at Carlo Ditta’s Orleans Records
Carlo Ditta and his Orleans Records label recently launched a flurry of new initiatives, including the long-time-coming release of Houma singer-songwriter-bassist Terry Mulligan’s recording debut. The label also rereleased Ditta’s […]
Let it Be: New Orleans Beatles Festival gets back to where it once belonged
Following two years of pandemic-related delays, the New Orleans Beatles Festival is getting back to where it once belonged. On January 14 the event returns to the House of Blues. […]
Crispin Schroeder, Hear the Light (Independent)
Crispin Schroeder’s album Hear the Light presents this singer-songwriter-keyboardist’s polished yet still down-to-earth intermingling of pop, soul, jazz, gospel and New Orleans rhythm and blues. Schroeder opens the ten-song project […]
Dr. Michael White talks back
In advance of the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival, esteemed clarinetist Dr. Michael White shares his memories of the festival’s namesake.
New Orleans Music Observed: The musical art of Emilie Rhys and Noel Rockmore featured in new book
Emilie Rhys’ new book, New Orleans Music Observed: The Art of Noel Rockmore and Emilie Rhys, beautifully expands the New Orleans Jazz Museum’s recent exhibit of Rhys’ and her late […]
Lilli Lewis’ Music—her own and at Louisiana Red Hot Records—is the heart of her life
On Veterans Day, 2021, Lilli Lewis sat beneath a large American flag on the wall in a coffee shop in the small town of Hammond, Louisiana. Two more flags hung […]
Daria Dzurik and the Hip Drops bring Caribbean-flavored indie-pop to New Orleans
Daria Dzurik, singer, songwriter and steel pan player in Daria and the Hip Drops, is one of many Florida State University music graduates who find themselves drawn to New Orleans. […]
Conquered by New Orleans: Cyrille Aimée embodies New Orleans’ French and Caribbean heritage
Cyrille Aimée’s connection to New Orleans’ cultural milieu existed long before her recent move to Louisiana. The jazz-singing daughter of a French father and Dominican mother, she shared the […]
Covered in Earl: Tipitina’s plans tribute concert to Earl King
Earl King—the singer, guitarist and master songwriter whose music was recorded by Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Dr. John, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many more—is Tipitina’s latest tribute-night honoree. […]
2021 New Orleans Film Festival includes 28 world premieres
This year’s hybrid New Orleans Film Festival offers in-person and online screenings. Films will screen November 5-14 at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, the Orpheum Theater, the Broad Theater and Broadside […]
