Blogs
Not Amused?
[UPDATED] Conventional wisdom has been that festivals need older bands from the last days of the monoculture to draw an audience. This year’s Coachella suggested that the tide is turning, […]
Treme News: New Steve Earle Sunday
This Sunday ends the first season of HBO’s Treme. Featured in the episode will be a new song by Steve Earle, who also has a role on the show. According […]
The Broad View of Collaboration
On first look, I’m entertained by the Voodoo lineup. Ozzy seems like another Kiss, but I’ve never got Ozzy except on record with Black Sabbath. Any live footage of him […]
Well, They’re At It Again
After all these years, and all the protestations about how New Orleans is a “city of music,” the “birthplace of jazz.” It’s happening all over again. Our new NOPD chief, […]
Treme News: An English Major’s Dream
[SPOILER ALERT] I’ve resisted saying too much about Treme on a week-to-week basis because the series has felt like the season adds up to a novelistic whole, and commenting on […]
A Radical Approach
Once Jazz Fest coverage ends, I more or less put a moratorium on chewing on its booking, but the upcoming CareFusion Jazz Festival in New York City begs for a comment. […]
If You Drink Beer, Then You Should Support the Leaf
So last week, in anticipation of the decreasing amount of seafood that the BP oil leak may precipitate, my friend Carol and I decided to go to Drago’s to consume […]
Dance and Coo
Right now, I have a lot of cool dance music on my desk, a lot of it world incarnations. Lagos Disco Inferno (Academy LPs) collects tracks from the late 1970s […]
The (Mardi Gras) Indian Wars
After our news story on the successful effort of Creole Wild West Chief Howard Miller to copyright his suit, we received a number of comments and a lot of general […]
The Start of the Next Big Band?
On Saturday night, I saw part of Nick Pino’s “live mashup” at the Bridge Lounge. He DJ’ed with a baritone sax player accompanying him live. It didn’t quite work—the set-up […]
