Voodoo Festival is almost here!
Still time to snag tickets! We will be there all three days–the lineup this year is amazing! Red Baraat returns to New Orleans! Morning 40 reunites (again! Hurray!) The Vettes! New Orleans Bingo Show! R Scully’s Rough 7, with Rob Cambre ripping on guitar! And Cheap Trick, The Raconteurs, Chris Thomas King, Snoop Dogg, Mannie […]
2011 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival
This year’s Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival was the 6th annual presentation of the free event, which is put on by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation (whose premiere event is the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival). This year’s lineup was loaded with stars, including Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Little Freddie King, Walter “Wolfman” […]
Happy Birthday, Mahalia Jackson!
For Mahalia Jackson’s 100th birthday, a host of New Orleans’ finest musicians gathered at Ogden After Hours, in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans LA. Why? Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman. Cake. Roof. Tearing it off. All that. Herlin Riley absolutely ripped it up on drums. Leah Chase, Sarah Quintana, and a host of […]
Primus at Metropolis
Primus defies categorization and walks the halls of Devo, Thelonious Monk, and Salvador Dali–instantly recognizable as something new to the Earth, destined to do their own thing and well, that’s it. First walking the Earth around 1984, they bring to our planet walls of bass wizardry (yes, that’s a whammy bar) backed by a guitarist […]
Shannon McNally at Ogden After Hours
Check out some photos from Shannon McNally’s soulful show at Ogden After Hours and if you’re not a member of the Ogden Museum, you’re missing an amazing array of music. Every Thursday at 6p, people. Free for members and discounted adult beverages.
Big Daddy O at the Ogden Museum
Big Daddy O (aka Owen Tufts), 6’6″ of blues master, played a solo acoustic show recently at the Ogden Museum’s Ogden After Hours. If you haven’t checked out Big Daddy O, well, here he is: Now drag yourself over to his site, buy all of his CDs (we confess that we bought all of them […]
Heavy MTL 2011
Heavy MTL is an annual heavy metal festival held in Montreal, QC. This year we shot photos during both days of the festival. DAY 1: First up at Heavy MTL 2011: Dead and Divine, a metalcore band hailing from Burlington, and Parc Jean-Drapeau transitions from mild crowd sounds, Budweiser hawking, conversation to full on aural […]
Heavy MTL 2011 Complete Gallery
This gallery contains all of our published pictures from the festival:
Shauit at Festival International Nuits d’Afrique de Montréal!
We’re still in Montreal, seeking vibes. Here’s a hit: Shauit is a reggae/dancehall singer/songwriter we encountered during a show at the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique de Montréal. He sings in French, English, and Innu and both our French and Innu (especially Innu!) are far too weak to offer a translation, but the general vibe shines […]
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins is an undisputed Funk God–and more. He’s played with James Brown, George Clinton, Axiom Funk and many other great lineups and now he’s claimed a new prize: our hearts. Bootsy put on one of the best concerts we’ve ever seen–funk or otherwise–at Tipitinas in New Orleans. The cover charge was shockingly high for […]
At Folsom Prison
This recording hardly needs much introduction, but we recently listened to the remastered CD after years of listening abstinence. Summary: no music collection is complete without this recording. Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three are in top form, the sound is fantastic, and deleted banter between Cash and the prison audience has been restored (including comments […]
Recent Shows
A few large festivals coming up, but in the meantime, check out some photos from recent local shows, including a Hip Hop extravangaza at Maison that included Raekwon from Wu-Tang Clan, Tab Benoit, Eric Lindell, Gal Holiday, Marcia Ball, the Morning 40 Federation, Little Freddie King, and Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra. Diverse enough for ya? […]
Sippin’ in Seersucker 2011!
Sippin’ in Seersucker, an evening filled with seersucker outfits ranging from stuffy to outrageous, returned to Canal Place on May 20, 2011. The event featured food from a number of local restaurants, including Delachaise, Link Restaurant Group, Mahoney’s (our favorite po-boy joint!), La Petit Grocery, Stein’s, Vegas Tapas Cafe, Zea, WINO, and others. Preservation Jazz […]
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2011 (Second Weekend).
All good things must come to an end. Actually, in New Orleans that’s not strictly true, since the end of Jazz Fest simply returns us to the normal firehouse-sized helping of daily music and festivals, but for non-locals, maybe it is a temporary ending. In any event, we recount our best experiences during the last […]
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2011 (First Weekend)!
The first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was held in 1970 and featured, among others, Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain (appearing this year as well, and mighty welcome), Al Hirt, Fats Domino, and The Meters. Organized by George Wein (whom we saw fly by on a golf cart on the festival grounds during weekend # […]
Trumpets Not Guns!
The non-profit Trumpet Not Guns project raises money to provide musical instruments to students in New Orleans, “taking back our streets one horn at a time”. A benefit for the program was held recently at Tipitinas in New Orleans, with Glen David Andrews as M.C., and an array of New Orleans musicians performing, including Amanada […]
French Quarter Festival 2011
Four days and nights, eighteen stages scattered throughout the French Quarter and along the Mississippi River, packed with some of the finest jazz, blues, funk, brass, zydeco, rock, and crazy Gypsy punk bands the world has to offer. Did we mention that all this goodness is FREE? Not a music fanatic? No worries – sit […]
Viva Le Vox @ Siberia
OK, we’re starting to ramble about genre-busting (Graveyard Jaw, The Sawyer Family, Joe Buck Yourself, and just about every other band we love), so we’ll be concise: here’s another. Viva Le Vox is one of our favorite bands in a long time–stunning both to the eyes and ears. Listen carefully and there are glimpses of […]
The Sawyer Family @ Siberia
Nearly defeated by red rope lights as the only on-stage illumination? OK, yeah. And D3s’s are on backorder. ISO 25,600 @ less than 1/50s under pure red light is photographic death, but makes for one hell of a mood onstage and it’s not all about our pain, so let’s move on. Anyway, thus began our introduction […]
Joe Buck Yourself @ Siberia
Joe Buck (aka Jim Finkley) is a guitarist and bassist from Murray, Kentucky, now living in Nashville. His one man show, Joe Buck Yourself, is something to behold–Kenny G fanboys need not enter the club. Joe, enveloped in dim green light @ Siberia on St. Claude (in New Orleans), stares down the audience like a reptile […]
Strange Roux and Wasted Lives @ the Howlin’ Wolf!
Two very different bands, one very exceptional night. We raved about Strange Roux before and sometimes great things stay exactly the way you want them. Be sure to check out their show at Tipitina’s on April 21 with Purpetrator and Cold Turkey (breathe easy–Tips is smoke-free!). The Wasted Lives followed Strange Roux with a honky-tonk throw down featuring […]
My Graveyard Jaw @ the (ISO 12,800) Hi Ho Lounge!
My Graveyard Jaw is Michael James (aka Stix Duh Clown) on guitar, banjo, vocals, and boot stompin’, Denis Bonis on violin, Scott Potts on bass (and bass climbing), and Alleyn Evans on cello. Forget the genre-stuffing–it’s blues, country, growlin’, bass strings howling for mercy, soaring violin, gorgeous cello, guitar and banjo strumming madness. The song […]
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue @ Lafayette Square
YLC Presents: Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue! Trombone Shorty has come a long way, as if that needs saying. We remember him as a tiny kid, blowing trombone like he was seven feet tall, but now he’s not only grown up, but has played with Lenny Kravitz, U2, Green Day, and others. His current band is […]