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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

John Boutte at Jazzfest

This is John Boutte’s moment. The New Orleans singer was named the city’s Entertainer of the Year at the April 25 Big Easy Awards, and the theme song that he wrote and sang for HBO’s Treme show has made him financially secure for the first time in his career and more famous than he has ever been....  read more

Tom Waits to Release 78 RPM Single for Charity

Who says 78s are dead? Tom Waits will release two songs via that very format on Nov. 19 to benefit the Preservation Hall in New Orleans....  read more

Michael Stipe Plays Foodie Writer for Gwyneth Paltrow's Website

R.E.M.‘s frontman pens a guide about Nawlins nosh for Paltrow’s website GOOP....  read more

My Morning Jacket, The Wrens, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Many More Contribute to Dear New Orleans Comp

Air Traffic Control, a non-profit group that’s been hosting artist activism events regarding Hurricane Katrina, wrangled The Wrens, My Morning Jacket, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and more to pay tribute with the release of Dear New Orleans....  read more

Open Sound: A Sound Map of New Orleans

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

The Running of the Bulls in New Orleans

Each morning, from July 6 to July 14, more than a million tourists and locals, decked in red and white, descend upon the city of Pamplona to witness the beauty and brutality of the first encierro, or running of the bulls, of the annual Fiestas de San Fermín....  read more

Why isn't Treme Nominated for Any Music Emmys?

Good question, right?...  read more

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, My Morning Jacket and Amy Lavelle Photos - New Orleans, LA - Preservation Hall - 4/24/10

They played for 120 people...  read more

High Definition: Tremé Hits the Right Notes

Before the flood, I’d only spent a day in New Orleans. My friend Stephanie was working with Desire Street Ministries, and she showed me where she lived and worked in the 8th and 9th Wards. It was the best and worst of America in one place. It was the week of Mardi Gras, and I saw communities readying their immaculate floats among the stark poverty of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. The grandness of the funeral processions was only matched by their sobering frequency, as the children she worked with grew accustomed to sounds of gunfire at a young age....  read more