It’s a big week for New Orleans rock ‘n’ roll four-piece The Breton Sound
September 27, 2012 was an emotional day for the New Orleans music community.
The Voodoo Experience turns 15 this year, and in honor of the milestone, today it an
One of the things that makes French Quarter Festival special is its emphasis o
On Sunday, filmmaker Les Blank died of bladder cancer at the age of 77.
Seattle-based Ivan and Alyosha prefer optimism, four-part harmonies,
[Updated] For the last decade, the EMP Pop Conference has been the premiere venue for high-level music nerdery.
The Ponderosa Stomp took 2012 off, but it will return October 3-5 to the Rock 'n' Bow
Yesterday I wrote about my takeaway from the St. Roch Tavern ABO hearing.
Tonight concludes the second Buku Music and Art Project, the festival at Mardi Gras World
Between Buku and bands traveling to and from Austin because of SXSW, New Orleans is a musically exciting place for touring bands this week.
[Updated] The Arts and Warehouse District has its share of great eats, bars, and landmarks, but it hasn’t been home to guided tours until now
[Updated] Singer Erin McKeown has twice visited New Orleans as part of
He's My Brother She's My Sister and The Hot 8 Brass Band top the week in New Orleans' nightlife, along with Maceo Parker and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
[Updated] “For a while, there was actually a rumor going around on the Internet that we’re from New Orleans,” sa
Live music during the last days of Carnival includes Rebirth, G. Love, Funky Meters, The JAG, Shovels and Rope, R. Kelly and more.
Between Nashville and New Orleans, there’s a stretch of road that’s all too familiar to Nashville-based gritty Southern rock band
Sunday night after Bacchus, The Hot 8 Brass Band will be at
If we have one duty to New Orleans, it's to not contribute to its caricature.
Through Valentine's Day, The Voodoo Experience has weekend passes, Loa Lounge weeken
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.
[Updated] Tonight, Jon Cleary plays his more-or-less weekly solo pian
A look ahead to the week in live music, including The Roots, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Toro Y Moi and more.
"You recognize every play that's out there," Drew Brees said early in the evening.
This month, My Spilt Milk is pleased to present The Hot 8 Brass Band o
[Updated] Last year's the Krewe of 'tit Rex (imagine that "e" is a s
The Super Bowl has long been a playground for the wealthy far more than the average fan, but that side of the story has grown exponentially since t
"When we went down there, it wasn't so much about trying to make a New Orleans record as it was about getting away from our own backyard and out o
[Updated] Last week, Honey Island Swamp Band's Aaron Wilkinson talked about the band'
This year, Hogs for the Cause has expanded its musical lineup.
Parker Gispert of bluesy rock ‘n’ roll outfit The Whigs admits that the three-pi
The city's newest jazz venue, Little Gem Saloon, is also its oldest, and you can che
Today, Lily Keber's Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the documentary Bayou Maharaj
This week in live music in New Orleans, celebrations of Elvis, "Treme," and New Orleans Musicians Clinic, along with Justin Bieber, The English Beat and more.
The Sheraton New Orleans now features photographer Jack Robinson's pictures of his Canal Street in the 1950s.
Some interviews are easier than others. Glen David Andrews, for instance. Get him started and he'll take it from there.
“I like the media because it’s a game,” says Cole Alexander, singer-guitarist of the Black Li
Never Records opened with little fanfare, and it looked like any indie recor
Earlier this week, someone wrote in the comments section of a story on the Homegrown Harvest Fe
This time of the year, bands aren't touring and even local musicians would rather be home with their families.
If the Mayans were right, Friday will be the end of the world, and Salú is preparing t
It seems like we just finished with The Voodoo Experience, but it's back in
"People don't realize how intimate an action singing together is," Lucas Davenport says.
This week's musical highlights include Christmas shows with DJ Soul Sister, Kermit Ruffins, Curren$y an St. Cecilia's Asylum Chorus.
When Super Bowl XLVII comes to New Orleans on February 3, it will do so with an a
This Week's Spotify Soundtrack touches on the season, explores Latin jazz, and previews shows by The Eastern Sea, Roseanne Cash, Soul Sister's Christmas Jam and more.
This year, Louisiana's best hopes of bringing home Grammys come from people who've le
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing presented a new way to think about DJs in 1996 as he liberate
Kishi Bashi played New Orleans twice this year, once opening for Of Montreal at the Howli
[Updated] Food Network's Chopped challenges c
Friday night, Vox and the Hound will play a CD-release party for their new album C
[Updated] [Spoiler Alert] "When people start thinking that money is the fuckin' answer, you get a whole 'nother set of problems,"
In her explanation for the poor audience turn-out for the Homegrown Harvest Festival,
For more than a decade, the EMP Pop Conference has been a gathering place for critics, writers, scholars, and others who take music seriously to co
[Spoiler Alert] There are ways in which this season of Treme is very specific to its moment - the NOAH story, particularly
New music from Dirty Projectors and Karriem Riggins, previews of Michelle Shocked and Lucky Date, and an African groove.
"Come up with a cool name like Hand Bomb, Water Park, The Language. These would also be cool band names."
"I can feel our stuff evolving, but I can't put my finger on what it's evolving into."
After Hurricane Katrina, Fats Domino became an even more resonant presence in New Orleans because reports of his death were premature too.
Sitting still doesn’t come naturally to a lot of kids. Getting students to sit still long enough to learn is often the teachers’ hardest job.
Photographer Zack Smith loves to set up photo booths and document not the moment but the p
My Spilt Milk will be at The Voodoo Experience all weekend in City Park. Here's where we plan to be on Friday:
Before rock musicians began turning up their amplifiers as loud as they could and roaring into microphones, there was something like what Cha
I witnessed New Orleans/Lafayette indie dance pop band Royal Teeth play The Ba
“You always remember your first,” Say Anything songwriter and vocalist Max Be
For me, reuinion gigs often fail to satisfy, not because the band can't play anymore but because they're too excited that they can.
Afghan Whigs, Trombone Shorty, and Thomas Dolby speaking at TribeCon are among the week ahead's highlights.
Earlier this summer, Helen Gillet had a good conversation on improvisation and the social di
"Normally I ask people to put away their phones," The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz told the cr
Sleigh Bells went onstage slightly after 10, and at 10:58 I was on the sidewalk
a look ahead to shows by The Lumineers, Sleigh Bells, Matt and Kim, The Afghan Whigs and more; and new music from Tame Impala, A.C. Newman, Bad Books and more.
[Spoilers abound.] This week, it became apparent what New Orleanians are up against.
Nothing makes you appreciate the details of setting up a restaurant like setting one up week after week in unusual locations.
Small-town Indiana’s Houndmouth makes the kind of music you’d imagine railroad workers
It's a good week for roots music in New Orleans this week with the Blues and BBQ Fest, Steve Earle, The Lumineers, John Hiatt and Patti Griffin.
[Updated] So far, New Orleans has had two panels and one symposium to help it get a grip on its changing media landscape - what's
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.
Thunderous Canadian post-rock instrumental group Godspeed You!
A preview of shows by M83, Dan Deacon, Bombay Bicycle Club and Moon Duo, along with new music by Miguel, The Mountain Goats, John Cale and more.
“We haven’t played this song in 29 years,” Red Hot Chili Peppers’s bass player Flea s
The week ahead includes shows by Antibalas, Dee-1 and the Gretna Heritage Fest, as well as benefits for Mike Mayeux and Sheik Richardson.
Later this morning, I'm recording a Spilt Milk podcast with rapper Dee-1.
“I appreciate sacred music,” says Rob Lowe of Austin-based instrumental band Balmor
This week's episode does what Treme was made to do - illuminate a fundamental drama that most of us face.If things go according to plan, mo
This Week's Spotify Soundtrack previews new music from Melody's Echo Chamber, Green Day, Sotho Sounds and Kreayshawn (with Sissy Nobby); and shows by Santigold, Victor Wooten, Dinosaur Jr., TOPS and more.
During her set this year at Jazz Fest, Dayna Kurtz had a moment.
Black & White and Read All Over, Professor Longhair's house party, Animal Collective and Kendrick Lamar are a few of the highlights in a big week in New Orleans.
Last weekend, Rising Tide 7 brought together many of New Orleans' prominent writers and p
Last year, Preservation Hall and the jazz band that bears its name celebrated 50 ye
Earlier this summer, New Orleanian Jim McCormick co-wrote his first number one on Billboard
[Updated] I never understood how painful making music might be for Fi
Vox and the Hound are letting valuable promo time go to waste.
"We are going to be back for a season 3.5," Treme producer David Simon announced Sa
Josh Mazour has a job in an Attorney General's office, but when I ask about it, he plays it off.
This week includes a Big Sun reunion, Off!'s punk purism, The Walkmen, Lewis Black and the Rising Tide conference.
Amanda Palmer's decision to pay beer, merch and mentions to the local musicians who'd
“We want to try to circulate a chi,” Beach House singer Victoria Legrand announc
Smashburger, located at the corner of Magazine Street and Toledano, is a national chain whos
This week, we have new music from Bob Dylan, Empress Hotel, Ralph Stanley and The XX; and previews of shows this week by Amanda Palmer, The Walkmen, Nasimiyu, Lewis Black and more.
Today, New Orleans' hard rock band Star and Dagger have released their first video, which references a n
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.
“I hope whenever the fucking shitty movie is made about Brooklyn in the ‘00s, it’s going to be more like Justice League.
Updated: It's rare that we get to say that New Orleans is on the cutting edge of something other celebrations and NFL player moti
Treme returns for its third season on HBO on September 23.
This morning I tried to interview American Idol hopefuls that are auditioning t
The first look at the third season of the HBO series gives us Clint Maedgen, some new haircuts, and - yay! - the return of Nelson Hidalgo.
The last time I looked at the Nola.com app, I was on the Entertainment page, so when I launched the app today at 7:30 a.m., it opened with Entertai