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Hot Wax in Big Stacks: Tips from the Record Tent
Hot glass is more like it this year. Following market demand (being dragged behind it kicking and screaming is more like it), we have reduced the quantities of vinyl at […]
Club Scouting
Music die-hards with enough energy left after a long day at the Fair Grounds will want to check out New Orleans’ music clubs. Besides the many special events the clubs […]
Radio History: Black Radio and New Orleans Music
Many times, music mirrors history. But sometimes it creates it. Such is the case with New Orleans’ top commercial urban station, WYLD. The history of popular music in New Orleans—that […]
Rounder Records: Louisiana Sounds
Amidst the cavalcade of corporate clones that typify the record business, Rounder Records has carved a distinctive niche as a unique, diverse and successful independent outfit. Rounder’s rich catalog includes […]
A Creole Christmas: The Album
In a land where music and festivity are obsessions, the music for the world’s most revered festivity has the same objectives as elsewhere—reflecting on good times, family and friends, home […]
NewsBeat December 1990
New Orleans puts on one of her most beautiful faces during the holiday Season: just take a stroll down Canal Street and into the French Quarter to enjoy the lights […]
Celebration of Light: Christmas in the Oaks
New Orleans has always been a city that’s intoxicated with glitter and pageantry, particularly during the holidays. Adorned with over 700,000 lights, the historic oaks of City Park keep up […]
Big Easy Blues
“It’s the home of the blues. This place here is the home, the foundation of jazz and blues.” It’s rather hard to contradict the 80-year-old dean of New Orleans blues, […]
Local Color: Record Ron
Just about anyone who’s a fan of New Orleans music knows where to locate hard-to-find albums by the Nevilles or Irma Thomas or the Meters. For die-hard fans, a must-stop […]
NewsBeat November 1990
Ah, November. We can finally sigh with relief after an enormously hot summer in New Orleans and get on with enjoying what this city has to offer in abundance: music, […]
