From the early alternative rock scene in LA, to Dubstep, to Bounce, there's just so many ways to dance.

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[My Spilt Milk has asked a number of artists performing this weekend to select playlists of music that is meaningful to them.

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Curren$y and the Jet Life crew are so ridiculously prolific that I get the impression that they're idea of a social life is to hang out in the stu

Poster for "Catch the Wall"

"It's important for us to tell original stories," says A.J.

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[NSFW] Quickie Mart's Super Mart Produce label will release #W

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"You asked me how long I'd stay by your side," ZZ Ward sings.

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The Super Bowl is over, the lights are back on in the Dome, and know we're left with the second week of Carnival starting tomorrow.

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[Updated] Anything in Return continues the broadening of Toro Y Mo

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Professor Longhair and some Carnival classics get the Balkan bounce beat courtesy of Gypsyphonic Disko.

Cover art for "Bounce" by Matt Miller

Telling the ending won't ruin this book.

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The highlights of the next week in live music in New Orleans, including Eric Lindell, the Dirty Dozen, Leon Russell, Jersey Boys and the New Orleans Viewer's Choice Awards.

[NSFW] When I started working on the Oxford American music issue, one of the

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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing presented a new way to think about DJs in 1996 as he liberate

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Dee-1 has a lot to say. When a helicopter flies low over the Magazine Street PJ's while we're talking, he doesn't wait for it to pass.

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Later this morning, I'm recording a Spilt Milk podcast with rapper Dee-1.

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"It's been a dope, dope, dope, dope experience."

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When I asked on Facebook for questions for

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This week, New Orleans' nightlife offerings include Irvin Mayfield and the NOJO with Ledisi, Mystikal with Juvenile, Honey Island Swamp Band with Red Baraat, Black Taxi, Beach House and Stomp.

Lil Wayne's strength is that he's never been obsessed with keeping it real; in fact, he's at his best when he's keeping it unreal.

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Earlier in the week, My Spilt Milk ran the story of Juvenile being arrested in M

"I thought 'fiasco' meant something else."

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Hurricane Katrina sent brothers Kentrell "Krispy" Lindsey and Alvin "Joey" Lindsey out of New Orleans East - first to Houston, then to Los Angeles

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So easy, a kid can do it.

Recently, Curren$y sat in with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Here's the video evidence.

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Rapper K. Gates turns his attention from the New Orleans Saints to the New Orleans violence in his new documentary, Murda Capitol.

It's tempting to say that the Mainline Brass Band stretches the definition of br