2011 Voodoo Music Experience Photos
This past weekend, the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience overtook New Orleans' City Park on Halloween weekend for the 13th consecutive year. Headliners included The Raconteurs, Soundgarden and Blink 182, while the festival also featured Girl Talk, Band of Horses, TV on the Radio and many others. Check out Mark C. Austin's photos from this year's Voodoo Music Experience below. read more
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Now you don’t have to visit Louisiana to grasp the vast array of sounds that fill New Orleans. You can hear them from a map. Open Sound New Orleans is a wiki-style project led by Heather Booth and Jacob Brancasi that allows anyone to upload sounds recorded from their daily lives or notable moments in the Crescent City, including music, background noise, interviews, and conversation.... read more
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They played for 120 people... read more
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