Plunging into the depths of your own emotional heartaches for artistic inspiration is as old as art itself. But few artists strive to give their lives over to the creative...
ROOTS Week, an annual gathering of artists from around the South, is always full of surprises. At dinner one evening, the clamor of conversation in the cafeteria was suddenly...
After taking a break in 2012, the Ponderosa Stomp returns to celebrate its 11th year with “Three days of the best music you’ve never heard of.” Ponderosa Stomp Foundation...
ROOM 101 Room 101 is a solo guitar act playing against a backdrop of abrasive film montage synced with programmed compositions. He is a teacher by day. What is the secret to...
Anyone who’s stayed in the city for at least a couple years straight knows New Orleans has definite periods of dispersing her children (after Mardi Gras) and harvesting them all...
Known primarily for the outlandish sound of their earliest recordings––a barely-controlled swirl of chaos and cacophony––Man Man is the type of band that could...
If you’ve ever been driving down the highway late at night, traveling some far distance, the yellow divider unzipping into the black, an AM radio preacher droning on in a...
Ryan Scully is probably most well known as a member of quintessential New Orleans good-times-party-band, Morning 40 Federation. But his new outfit, R. Scully’s Rough Seven, is...
Since Hurricane Katrina, there has been an abundance of school reform in New Orleans; however, many see it as fake reform or “deform.” At the end of the 2011–2012 school...
