Blogs
Weird Covers, Slidin’ Things & Other French Quarter Fest Delights
After a weekend of stage-hopping at the French Quarter Fest, a few quick shots and impressions: I wasn’t familiar with Bag of Donuts’ brand of insanity so I’ll just say […]
A Month to Remember: New Orleans Shines in January
This past January was an eventful month of music in which New Orleans witnessed more highlights than most of the world’s top cultural cities experience in a year. Memorable shows […]
Most of My Favorite Local Records of 2012
Reading the lists and catching some flak made me itch to put my own preferences down. What follows is necessarily incomplete because I can’t even pretend to listen to everything […]
Could Have Been Worse: Paul Sanchez Remembers Herman Ernest’s Final Recording Session
In the June issue of OffBeat the cover story was an account of the latest performance of the fascinating Paul Sanchez-directed production Nine Lives: The Musical. My research for the story ended […]
Behind Treme’s Hard Season Opener
[Spoiler alert] As we learned late in season one of Treme, obsessing over the raw factuality of the show is dangerous. The clues were there as to what Creighton Bernette’s […]
Go For It!
Spent a good part of this afternoon at Piety Street Recording Studio in the Bywater, meeting great people whilst observing the recording of Paul Sanchez and screenwriter Colman deKay’s upcoming […]
