New Orleans is the biggest small town in America, but leaving your neighborhood can often sound as daunting as a drive to Missouri.
“Did I sing the Standard Oil verse twice?” asked Randy Newman.
Victoria Williams has probably always been an acquired taste.
In 1996, the release of Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Part
Since Foo Fighters' appearance at Voodoo, I've been riding Dave Grohl and Sonic Highw
[Updated] Thoughts that we didn’t get around do during Voodoo 2014:
It was bad enough that The Tontons couldn't play loudly enough to keep
[Updated] Saturday night at Voodoo was supposed to be about
The story Friday at Voodoo wasn’t so much
Sunday night, Beck played the House of Blues, playing a rare club show between weekends headlini
After two or three songs, a guy walked by me on the way out of Foxygen
On Thursday night, the female population of downtown New Orleans skyrocketed.
At this point, The Polyphonic Spree’s career has followed a familiar modern arc.
[Updated] “WE LOVE NEW ORLEANS!” Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic screamed at th
When Rotary Downs concluded its Jazz Fest set with a cover of Gary Numan's "Cars," the choice
After the spectacle of Beyoncé’s high-tech production last year at Essence
Well before he took the stage shortly after 4:15 p.m., Saturday at Jazz Fest was about Bruce Springsteen.
[Updated] Most every Mogwai song follows the same formula.
Sunday’s final sets at Jazz Fest couldn’t have been more different.
Any fears that Phish fans would once again descend on New Orlean
Backseat drivers have many ideas about what Jazz Fest should do differently, some of which
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell starts Friday, and we’re cove
Tour reports from the Kings of Leon's "Mechanical Bull" told similar stories.
[Updated] Near the end of Broken Bells’ show at the Civic Theatre Wednesd
On Tuesday last week, photographer Patrick Ainsworth went to One Eyed Jacks to see the return of Cibo Matto on the band's
British guitarist and singer Jake Bugg performed at The Civic Theatre on Thursday to promote his
Prince isn't on tour, but that hasn't stopped him from playing one-off shows like the 2 1/2-hour jam he played last Friday night at the Mohegan Sun
It was hard not to become obsessed with Robert Smith’s head. Time and thinning hair has made his trademark tangle harder to pull off.
Reviews of new CDs by Meschiya Lake and The Little Big Horns and R. Scully's Rough 7 on the eve of their CD-release parties.
Last night at Tipitina's, I tweeted, "Trying to decide: is Dawes sensitive or patronizing to
Stevie Wonder wraps up a beautiful weekend at the Hangout Music Festival at Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Saturday's highlights from Gulf Shores' Hangout Music Festival.
Elephant 6 Collective member Julian Koster will tent The Howlin' Wolf on
Thankfully, the conditions stopped being a story at Jazz Fest Saturday.
Thursday's rain on top of last weekend's rain on top of this week's rain left the Fair Grounds such a mess that opening Friday was delayed an hour
It looks like we may be finished with the rain, but Thursday it took it's toll on me, partly in the constant donning and shedding of rain gear, of
Marnie Stern made her name as an indie guitar hero, but her most recent album, The Chronicles of Marnia, shows growth in her songwriting.
When I told a friend earlier this week that I was going to see The Soft Pack, he asked
“We want to try to circulate a chi,” Beach House singer Victoria Legrand announce
Rule Number One: No band should have three sport coats onstage unless it has a horn section to wear them.
Reviews of "Ingrid Lucia Presents New Orleans Female Vocalists," "The Cherry Thing" by Neneh Cherry and The Thing, and "Big Station" by Alejandro Escovedo.
All but the most cynical bands are labors of love. There's too much work for too little return to play music for anything but personal reasons.
This album of sea shanties from the Bywater makes me want a beer.