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Steph Visco

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An out-of-focus black and white photo of a brass band with the MaCCNO logo overlaid it in white. Below the logo reads “The Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans” in white.

Making a Living as a New Orleans Musician: Then and Now, By the Numbers

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Marisa Clogher

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A black and white photo of Esther Rose leaning on a balcony and looking directly at the camera. She is light-skinned and has long hair that’s halfway pulled up. She’s wearing a leather jacket and a choker. We can see the French Quarter in the background, out of focus. Photo by Akasha Rabut.

THE REAWAKENING OF ESTHER ROSE

Call it a return to Saturn or heartbreak’s best revenge, Esther Rose’s full-length How Many Times is a magnetizing reverie of introspective, country-tinged...

Danielle Dietze
A black and white illustration of a light skinned man in a tweed jacket holding a briefcase labeled “FROGS.” The man is wearing a hat and is looking to the right and smiling. The briefcase has frog legs sticking out the sides of it. There is a gray circle behind the man, framing him like a cartoon. Illustration by Happy Burbeck.

Albert Broel, Frog Prince of New Orleans

Head west from New Orleans along Metairie Road and you’ll pass a building marked with the silhouette of a Churchillian gentleman smoking a cigar, advertising Winston’s Pub and...

Steven Melendez
A black and white photo of Claire Givens and Jeremy Phipps, members of the band People Museum. They are walking next to each other and the levee is visible behind them. Claire is on the left; she’s light-skinned and has dark brown hair. She’s wearing a long black jackets, black tights, and long, dark boots, and there are tattoos on her legs visible through her tights. She’s looking behind her. Jeremy is on the right; he’s dark-skinned and has short hair and a beard. He’s wearing a long-sleeved black and white striped shirt and black pants. He’s looking ahead of him. Photo by Katie Sikora.

PEOPLE MUSEUM SHAKES OFF THE ICE

In their newest release, I Could Only See Night, People Museum explores a new chapter of collaboration and experimentation. As a group, the band is extremely hands-on and DIY when...

Julia Engel
A black and white portrait of Rose McBurney standing and holding a sculpture. She’s a light-skinned woman dressed in a light jumpsuit, and her dark hair is pulled back in a bun. She’s smiling and is wearing white, fingerless gloves. Photo by Katie Sikora.

WORK IN PROGRESS: ROSE MCBURNEY

Anyone who creates, whether it’s paintings or songs, novels or pastries, has a weird and special role in the culture. It is the job of the artist to take the intangible nothing...

Harriet Burbeck
A black and white illustration of Mike IX Williams singing into a microphone. He is light-skinned and has dark, shaggy hair. He has his right hand wrapped around the microphone and he’s scowling a little bit. He’s wearing a dark jacket that reads “Smell Shock” and “The Sluts” on it. Behind him are posters for Eyehategod, the band that he’s in. Illustration by Bill Heintz.

MIKE IX WILLIAMS: UNIVERSAL DISTURBANCE

Mike IX Williams’ misanthropic screams and Jimmy Bower’s abrasive feedback have resonated with more than just a few people since they played their first gig together in 1988....

William Archambeault
A black and white photo of Micah McKee sitting down at a desk with his guitar on his lap. He is dark-skinned and has a beard. He’s wearing a sweater, a beanie, and glasses. He has noise-cancelling headphones on, and there is recording equipment around him. He’s looking to the left of the frame, toward a screen out of frame. He’s holding the guitar in his lap with his left hand, and his right hand is on the desk that his eyes are focused toward. There’s a drum on the right that’s out of focus, and there are plants in the background. Photo by Katie Sikora.

MICAH MCKEE MAKES IT COUNT

New Orleans music—be it brass bands or no-wave punk—is dominated by loud, eccentric personalities. We know ‘em, we love ‘em. And while Micah McKee might not exactly fit...

Dan Fox
A black and white illustration of SOPHIE, with the moon behind her. Her eyes are white and her hair is curly with wisps of it falling in her face. There’s a black circle surrounding her, with a gray moon above her head. Illustration by Kallie Tiffau.

SOPHIE’S IMMATERIAL WORLD

“Always the same and never the same / Day by day, life after life” It was summer and excruciatingly hot. Santos was hosting a Tutti Frutti event: a queer dance party, “an...

Marisa Clogher
A black and white illustration of egrets standing in dark water in the marsh, with oil refineries in the background. There are two egrets and they are facing away from each other. The water is black, and there’s grass on either side. In the background is a fence, and beyond the fence is an oil refinery. The structures are all white and the sky is black. At the bottom reads “St. John Makes, Marathon Takes: Communities Want a Refund” in gray letters. Illustration by Pippin Frisbie-Calder.

ST. JOHN MAKES, MARATHON TAKES

The Marathon Garyville Refinery is a fortress of smokestacks and towers that occupies about five square miles of former sugarcane fields on the Mississippi River. Its footprint...

Chris Staudinger
A black and white photo of the bells of tubas laying down on a table. The open, circular parts are laying face down, and they’re all white. The bell most prominently in frame has a crack in it. There are chairs and instrument cases in the background. Photo by James Cullen.

ROOTS OF MUSIC MARCHES ON

Derrick Tabb had an idea. It wasn’t a new idea, but one he had been kicking around for some time. Tabb saw post-Katrina New Orleans as a city that had been badly damaged both...

James Cullen

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