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French Quarter Fest Adds a Day
This year’s French Quarter Festival will start on Thursday, April 7 this year, a day earlier than in previous years. The free festival that takes over Bourbon Street, Decatur Street, […]
Trombone Shorty Returns to Number One
Trombone Shorty’s Backatown was released before Jazz Fest, and it has been on Billboard‘s Contemporary Jazz CD charts since. It shot to number one when it was released, and after […]
The Illuminasti Trio Becomes 3Now6 Tonight
James Singleton formed the Illuminasti Trio with saxophonist Skerik and percussionist Mike Dillon after Hurricane Katrina. “It was very informal, just improvising,” he says. “We discovered a great common ground […]
YouTube du Jour: Mark McGrain and Plunge
Tonight, Mark McGrain and Plunge – James Singleton and Tim Green – play a CD-release party for their new album, Tin Fish Tango, at Snug Harbor. Here is an audio […]
YouTube Du Jour: Cyhi Da Prince
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5xrcYZEcxs[/youtube] Tonight, Kanye West disciple Cyhi Da Prince, a rapper on West’s G.O.O.D. Music record label, plays the Howlin Wolf at 10 p.m. Here’s “Living Wonderful” from the Atlanta native […]
Generationals Free Trust EP Download & Free Show Friday
Generationals have been the New Orleans indie world’s biggest success story in recent times, garnering critical praise, landing songs in national TV commercials, and even joining heavyweights Ted Leo and […]
Remembering Klauspeter Seibel
Klauspeter Seibel, the first music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (1995-2004) died Saturday of multiple myeloma in Hamburg, Germany. He was 74. He loved New Orleans and celebrated a […]
YouTube du Jour: Alex Chilton
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=105yeWrjoEc[/youtube] At this year’s Best of the Beat (January 28 at Generations Hall), we’ll have a tribute to the late Alex Chilton, who passed away last March. The Iguanas’ rhythm […]
I Love the ’80s (Minus VH-1)
If I were cynical, I’d wonder if Girl Talk’s mash-ups were designed to rehab the hits of the ’80s. At House of Blues last night, the ’80s kept on coming—New […]
YouTube du Jour: Girl Talk
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBAxkZun3s[/youtube] Tonight, Girl Talk – Pittsburgh’s Gregg Gillis – starts a two-night stand at the House of Blues. This video, “Play Your Part (Pt. 1),” demonstrates the Girl Talk thing […]
