Blogs
Irony-Free Zone
At Gambit‘s blog, Alison Fensterstock has been posting strange Christmas songs daily. I’m not going to bust on her for that because I’m currently downloading a disco Christmas album […]
Politicians Here …
… are kicking themselves. Why didn’t they think of this?
A Seasonal Test
Julian Koster is part of the Elephant 6 collective, and his The Singing Saw at Christmastime is the seasonal exploitation record at it finest. Rather than have dogs bark […]
More Christmas
Daptone Records has a regular free downloadable podcast available monthly from iTunes. This month’s podcast is naturally a Christmas mix, and it’s great – some obscurities, some classics including […]
Allen Toussaint and Jimmy Webb
The inaugural New Orleans Songwriters’ Festival was a success, drawing over 100 performers for the Friday night Bluebird Cafe Open Mic at the Blue Nile, and attendance surpassed expectations […]
What Will Happen to the Critics?
In the current business climate, print media’s having a rough go negotiating its place in a world where so much free information is available via the Internet. At ARTicles, […]
Ledisi on Christmas Music
R&B singer Ledisi grew up in New Orleans before moving to Oakland as a young teen, and she’ll return to New Orleans to perform a free Christmas concert Sunday at […]
NO on TV
Tonight at 8 p.m. CST, VH1 Soul (Channel 362 on Cox Cable) presents a new episode of Soul Cities with Nelson George, this time featuring New Orleans. The segment was […]
Swinging Christmases
Unfortunately, we received Harry Connick, Jr.’s What a Night!: a Christmas Album too late for our Christmas wrap-up in the December issue. Around the same time, Tony Bennett’s A […]
