Issue Articles
Tea and Tales of the Cocktail
On July 23, a funeral procession will throng through the French Quarter. The second liners won’t be in funeral attire; they will wear formal clothes and emerge at 11:30 a.m. […]
Hangout Day 3: Everybody Wants to See Paul Simon
It amazed me what a small space the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama was held in. The two main stages faced other across a stretch of beach that […]
Hangout Day 2: Cee Lo Late (Again)
Cee Lo Green continued to disappoint on the summer’s festival circuit. At Coachella, he was late to the stage, where he was eventually booed, and Saturday at Gulf Shores’ Hangout […]
Hangout Festival Day 1: Jam Lives
The Hangout exploded from a little-known beach festival in 2010 to the sixth largest U.S. outdoor weekend festival in one year, and the ticket lines show it. The intersection of […]
Glen David Andrews and the Healing Power of Horns
“Man, I’m so humbled,” Glen David Andrews says. He then reels off a slew of his recent awards and accomplishments. Last November, he was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall […]
Del McCoury’s in the Hall
“I don’t think this has ever been done before, and I’m hoping people come to just find out what it is,” says Del McCoury, one of the most respected figures […]
Liveset Goes Live
For 30 minutes on Friday afternoon, Ross Hinkle and Rachel Puckett patiently explained their business model. Liveset is a new, small business founded by Hinkle on the supposition that there […]
A Threadhead Mystery
What? Mystery Street Records, the sister label to Threadhead Records, which on February 1 released its first album, Sounds of New Orleans: Frenchmen Street. Why two labels? “We’ve always been […]
Smoke-Free: A Breath of Fresh Air
There’s a new movement in town that has almost no opponents, and it’s driving smokers from their beloved bars and into the streets. The movement’s newest convert is d.b.a.; the […]
Live Review: EOTO Produce Good Sound at Tipitina’s
EOTO’s Jason Hann knows that nothing shakes up an electro show like a bongo. EOTO (prounounced “e-oh-toe”) means “good sound” in Japanese—a meaning that Hann and Michael Travis were unaware […]
