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A Message from Bobby Charles
This election season’s so maddening that it motivated Bobby Charles to go in the studio and cut a new song, “Take Back My Country.” More than anything, it’s a get […]
Debating the Debates
This morning, NPR’s “Morning Edition” had a segment on undecided voters, many of whom felt like they needed to see another debate to make up their minds. If they want solid information, […]
A Musical Guide to the New Orleans Film Fest
The New Orleans Film Fest starts Friday. Here’s a look ahead at the music-related movies (with a little leeway) in chronological order with text provided by the film festival. Note […]
A World of Peace Must Come
In 1969, Brian Wilson produced A World of Peace Must Come, an album of poetry by Stephen John Kalinich. Kalinich was part of the Beach Boys circle in 1966 during […]
What More Can I Say?
Last fall, The Unfairground reminded me how much I once loved British eccentric Kevin Ayers. His early 1970s albums were a part of a body of art rock in the […]
A New Kind of Katrina Song
Alex V. Cook blogged today about a piece of music based on what was dubbed “the Katrina Hexacord” by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross. It’s the name given the non-chord that […]
The Trouble with Banksy
There are three Banksy pieces done in New Orleans that are little discussed because few saw them – a silhouette of a child playing a trumpet on the side of […]
Another Banksy Down
Graffiti/public artist Banksy hit the city with a series of works with, as his Web site says, the purpose of confronting Fred Radke, “The Gray Ghost,” who is known for […]
The Definition of Wrong
Last week, Tony Clifton played two shows at One Eyed Jacks, and it’s hard to imagine entertaintainment in more exquisitely bad taste. Since the lounge singer’s history has been one […]
The Industry vs. Music, Pt. 4,196
The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones writes succinctly about the sad story of Muxtape, the mixtape/playlist streaming site that has met the sort of fate you’d expect when someone thinks creatively […]
