Yesterday marked the kickoff of Hangout Music Festival as ten of thousands of festivals goers rushed the...
[Updated] Jazz Fest and the birth of Clara Louise Rawls forced The Milk Run to take a hiatus, but...
[Updated] With one week to go, Alexandra...
This week the music world sees the return of some legends, both in reissue and new material, while New...
[Updated] While I don't share the belief that being first is automatically better, I...
What happens to folk music when it plugs in? Americana. What happens to Americana when it puts its...
Thankfully, the conditions stopped being a story at Jazz Fest Saturday. Yes, a drainage trench near the Fais...
Thursday's rain on top of last weekend's rain on top of this week's rain left the Fair Grounds such a mess...
Friday's Jazz Fest schedule underwent some major...
[Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic has...
It looks like we may be finished with the rain, but Thursday it took it's toll on me, partly in the constant...
[This weekend, a number of artists playing Jazz Fest have contributed Spotify playlists. Friday, jazz...
"At Jazz Camp, everyone's afraid of him until they get to know him."
It's South by Southwest in Austin, and across the street from a party hosted by an app developer, a well-...
[My Spilt Milk has asked a number of artists performing this weekend to select playlists of music that...
Marnie Stern made her name as an indie guitar hero, but her most recent album, The Chronicles of Marnia...
"That record's a bitch," James McNew says, admiring Roger and the Gypsies' "...
[My Spilt Milk has asked a number of artists performing this weekend to select playlists of music that...
This weekend, griot Cheick Hamala Diabate will be in...
Audiences at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival have a love/hate relationship with rain. It makes...
Part of the beauty of Jazz Fest is that two people can have very full, satisfying musical days and not cross...
[Updated] Sunday, it was officially Jazz Fest. The rain and soggy grounds brought back that...
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, monomania is "the pathological obsession with one...
"It's hard to say if it's our best album, but I definitely think it's in the top two. An album I'm still...
Yesterday, we talked at length about the first Friday of the New Orleans Jazz and...
[Updated] Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is the most current version of the modern sound that...
[This is an encore presentation of a story that first ran January 24, 2013 under the name, "When the...
[Updated] The Zurich Classic is on the West Bank this weekend, and yesterday Jazz Fest felt...
“People always move retroactively,” says Travers Geoffray of rhythm-and-blues quartet...
In a state with as rich a musical history as Louisiana's, musicians are faced with an interesting challenge...
“Things start off so naked,” writes Trevor Powers of his psychedelic, lo-fi bedroom project...
It’s a big week for New Orleans rock ‘n’ roll four-piece...
Reviews of new albums by Honey Island Swamp Band, Anders Osborne, Martha Redbone, Bonerama, Los Po-Boy-Citos...
Alex McMurray is healthily cautious talking about...
April 20 brings a day of weed-influenced music, and the rest of the week brings the first signs of Jazz Fest...
Charles Bradley is an old school soul man,...
This year, I've been working with The Oxford American and the Louisiana Office of Tourism on the "...
"Some music is for escape and we don't want to escape back to reality,"...
It has become a ritual that each year after the...
September 27, 2012 was an emotional day for the New Orleans music community. That afternoon, musicians, club...
I've had to clean up water that blew in the house already today, which doesn't bode well for the final day...
One of the things that makes French Quarter...
