Georgia Braun McBride
 Throughout the world and the span of history, few other artists can claim a career comparable to that of one Michael Jackson.

April Seise
 New many, Mardi Gras is essentially an endless parade of free-flowing booze, boobs, and tourists, but for all the stereotypical reductions of the carnival season, there are twice as many reasons

Dionne Charlet, Brian Serpas, Emily Hingle, Greg Roques, April Seise
 With 2011 behind us, our music writers look back on their favorite local acts from the past year.Favorite Live Music PerformancePony Killer CD release showOctober 14, 2011By Brian Serpas Ta

Brian Serpas
 Leave it up to the young ones to express themselves with all the piss and vinegar that comes from being a disgruntled sub-urban kid, banned from convenient stores for wearing ski masks, says dru

Greg Roques, Carolyn Heneghan, Dionne Charlet, Misty Faucheux, Sheri McKee, Nick Peruffo
Friday, Oct. 28The WombatsFriday, October 28 - 2:15 p.m. Le Carnival: Bingo! ParlorThe Liverpool, England band, The Wombats, is undoubtedly one of the most hardworking bands currently touring. Before

Emily Hingle
In this musical city, you can go out at any given time and be guaranteed a live performance. We are lucky to have so much music, and regularly indulge in shows whether it’s one of our local favorites

Greg Roques

Carolyn Heneghan
Countless musicians were among the hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes, jobs and communities during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Carolyn Heneghan
If you can remember EOTO packing the downstairs room of Blue Nile back in March 2009, Tipitina’s in November 2008, or

Garrett Pittman
In the past few years the Crescent City has witnessed a tremendous growth of local interest in country and, especially, acoustic string-band music.

Kaiya Morrison
Like the peeks of highs and lows on a mixing board the music industry swells and drops in waves. This is based on what is currently in trend, and a trend is a fickle beast that’s constantly evolving. When a genre hits its peek another is clicking along in a dip, waiting to make a return to the forefront.

Dionne Charlet, April Seise, Briana Prevost
Soledad O'Brien, NeNe Leakes and Anderson Cooper together in one room? This scenario may not seem likely, (except for the fact that surprisingly, Anderson Cooper

Sheri McKee
Jazz Fest 2011 has come and gone with most of us surviving another year of wicked sunburns since we were blessed with beautiful weather both weekends along with record crowds.

Sheri McKee
Front Line Assembly has just kicked off their first North American tour to promote their latest album Improvised Electronic Device, which was released last May. They’ll be coming to New Orleans’ o

Shane Finkelstein
It was 1993 and two years removed from their release of their contract with Epic Records and Frank Bua, the drummer for the Radiators, was doing his own publicity. He picked up a copy of UR Magazine i