December 2024
Cover Story
- What's Up Boss? Kermit Ruffins: A Jolly Birthday
New Orleans, like most of the rest of the country, enjoys Santa Claus as a favorite icon of the Christmas season.…
BackTalk
- Herb Alpert Talks Back
Trumpet star Herb Alpert and his wife, singer Lani Hall, return to New Orleans for a December 14 performance at the…
Features
- Christmas Without Tears: A conversation with Harry Shearer and Judith Owen
Welsh multi-potentialite and quadruple-threat performer Judith Owen sits next to her husband, Harry Shearer, as she brings up the concept of… - Kelly Love Jones: Alchemist of People
Kelly Love Jones seems to be everywhere. Between releasing her album Surrender and popping up all over town with various high-profile… - How Women Made Music: An interview with Alison Fensterstock
New Orleans writer and WWOZ radio host Alison Fensterstock is the editor of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from… - Donna’s Bar and Grill: Donna Poniatowski Sims' new book is a labor of love
The history of New Orleans music is overflowing with venues where the musicians of the city have plied their trade and…
Fresh
- Sweden’s Jonas Bernholm Publishes His Soul Odyssey: U.S. 1968
In his native Sweden, Jonas Bernholm is known as Mr. R&B. A music researcher, writer and record label owner, Bernholm became… - Vintage vinyl treasures (Episode 45)
It's time to move forward to 1970 from a Vintage vinyl collection place in time. Like the year before, covered in…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: Audubon Clubhouse
Nestled beneath the majestic oaks of Audubon Park, you'll find Audubon Clubhouse by Dickie Brennan & Co., 6975 Magazine Street. This…
Obituaries
- Joe Hall (1971-2024)
Old-time Creole music lost one of its finest torchbearers with the unexpected passing of accordionist and vocalist Joe Hall on Thursday,…
Reviews
- Loose Cattle: Somebody’s Monster (Single Lock Records)
Though they recorded it well in advance, I doubt we’ll hear a song that speaks for post-election America better than this… - Naughty Professor: Voices (Independent)
Sounds like Naughty Professor have found their direction, and not the one you expected if you had them pegged as a… - Marcella Simien: To Bend to the Will of a Dream That’s Being Fulfilled (Swamp Soul Records)
To say this is the most radical project Marcella Simien has ever done would be the understatement of the year. Other… - Little Freddie King: Things That I Used to Do (Newvelle Records)
Three minute, 12-bar, Delta-style blues remain the staple of guitarist and vocalist 84-year old Little Freddie King. Born in Mississippi and… - Sean Ardoin and Kreole Rock and Soul: 25 Back To My Roots (Zydekool Records)
If you weren’t too hung over and bleary-eyed from this year’s New Year’s Eve Celebration, you might have witnessed Sean Ardoin’s… - Dale Dolese Band: Sugar & Fire (Independent)
Does New Orleans need another funk-rock album with Meters/Radiators grooves, lots of chant-along choruses, and songs about hanging out on Frenchmen… - Michael Wolff: Memoir (Sunnyside Records)
Pianist and composer Michael Wolff—who beyond his acute abilities as a leader— has performed and/or recorded with an ace list of… - The Tanglers: Gators in the City (Independent)
It’s been a whopping eight years between albums for local bluegrass band the Tanglers, who made a promising debut with Backwards… - Devin Johnson: The Future is So Near (Independent)
There was a time when reviewers applied the word “quirky” to every pop record that was just a little eccentric. But… - Rachel Carrico: Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line (University of Illinois Press)
Dance Studies professor and author Rachel Carrico moved to New Orleans, like so many young creatives, in the years after Hurricane… - Cary Baker: Down On The Corner: Adventures In Busking & Street Music (Jawbone Press)
The very idea of street busking is one of the most romantic images in popular music, whether you’re thinking of the…
