Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” This is a saying that is truly emblematic of New Orleans. You can take it in a negative sense (nothing […]

Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Steve and Cézanne Nails

After a car crash left musician Steve Nails paralyzed in 1984, he searched for a way to stay in music. Dockside Studio on the banks of the Vermilion River near […]

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Photos: Lollapalooza draws world’s biggest artists, thousands of fans to Chicago

Arcade Fire, Chance the Rapper, Muse and The Killers were among the headliners that brought 100,000+ music lovers and partygoers to Chicago’s Grant Park over the weekend. All of them […]

Trombone Shorty to perform on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews will get to hang with his old New Orleans Center for Creative  Arts (NOCCA) classmate, Jon Batiste, when he heads to the Ed Sullivan Theater in […]

Voodoo Fest co-director Sig Greenebaum parts ways with festival

Sig Greenebaum, co-director of the Voodoo Music + Ars Experience, has parted ways with the festival to take a job with as Head of of Global Live Events for Overwatch […]

Preservation Hall Jazz Band to perform with Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh

New Orleans’ beloved Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been jumping from collaboration to collaboration over the past few years, teaming up with everyone from Del McCoury and Arcade Fire to […]

Just a photo of George Porter Jr. hanging out with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood

George Porter Jr. is a lifelong New Orleanian who has held down a regular gig at the Maple Leaf Bar for a few years now. Radiohead has played the Crescent […]

Listen: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Announces New Album, Releases New Song

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will release So It Is—their second full album of all-new original music—on April 21 via Legacy Recordings. The follow up to 2013’s That’s It! Finds […]

Insufferable DJ Duo The Chainsmokers Announce New Orleans Concert

Utterly insufferable DJ duo The Chainsmokers will perform at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Saturday, May 13. The group, whose output unfortunately qualifies as music, will be on […]