Blogs
Voodoo Preview
The Bingo! Parlour returns to the Voodoo Music Experience this year. At the Bingo! Show blog, Bingo members are posting short features on the bands that will perform in it. […]
More Banksy: Why See Them?
If you haven’t taken the Banksy driving tour yet, you’ve already missed a piece, but not to Fred Radke unless he has drastically changed his style. Someone spraypainted over the […]
Banksy Driving Tour
Doug MacCash’s story on the public/graffiti artist Banksy’s New Orleans works is now up at the Times-Picayune Web site and the locations of the pieces are in the paper and […]
The Best Art Show Not Behind Walls
Shortly before Hurricane Gustav, British street artist Banksy came to New Orleans to do a series of graffiti/public art pieces (you pick your name for them & I’ll pick mine) […]
Gimme Some Truth
Facts are simple and facts are straight Facts are lazy and facts are late Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts […]
The Gustav Story
The general take I got from the media is that if no one in New Orleans is assdeep in water, a hurricane missed us. Days long,statewide power don’t produce newsporn, but […]
New Orleans Boogaloo
Oliver Wang’s Soul Sides tracks classic soul, Latin soul, boogaloo in all their well-known and obscure incarnations, so I’m not surprised that he found out about Los Po-Boy-Citos’ debut album – which […]
Be Sweet
Last night, I spent much of the evening reading Bob Gendron’s Gentlemen, the newest entry in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series, this one on the Afghan Whigs’ 1993 classic. The […]
More Music: The Holy Modal Rounders
John Swenson has long told me about the brilliance of the Holy Modal Rounders, but for years I didn’t hear what he heard. ESP-Disc recently re-released 1967’s Indian War Whoop […]
Call for Papers
In a time when pop music seems to be routinely degraded in one way or another, I’ve found my attendance at the EMP Pop Conference in Seattle the last two years […]
