Blogs
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 […]
Obsession
During today’s Saints game, a friend observed, “Sean Peyton with Reggie Bush is like a guy who learned a 50-cent word and can’t stop using it.”
Christmas at Copeland’s
One year, a neighbor who decorated her house in white lights found the flashing, colored Christmas lights I’d strung on my iron security bars a bit much, and she wondered […]
Star Time
[Updated December 5, below] Reading Dave Thompson’s I Hate New Music: the Classic Rock Manifesto, listening to the new Lil Wayne mixtape Dedication 3 and discovering that Ashlee Simpson […]
A Decade of New Order
Rhino recently reissued the first five New Order albums under the subtitle “The Factory Years,” and more than anything else, they confirm the suspicion that this was first and foremost […]
Checking Out the Prospects
Anecdotally, it sounds like Prospect.1, the biennial art festival that CAC curator Dan Cameron has brought to New Orleans, is a modest success. I don’t hear a lot of buzz […]
Theresa Andersson meets David Byrne
A few weeks back, Theresa Andersson texted me to say David Byrne had heard her album and asked her to sing on his new album. At the time, I sat […]
