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New Orleans Jazz Fest announces 2008 lineup, schedule

[Above: Galactic performs at 2007's Jazz Fest] For the first time since 2005, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is returning to its full 7-day schedule, April 25-27 and May 1-4. Heavyweight leaders of the freshly-announced lineup include...(deep breath)...Stevie Wonder (Paste's #14 Best Living Songwriter), Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Santana, Sheryl Crow, Widespread Panic, The Neville Brothers, John Prine, Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, Randy Newman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, The Raconteurs, Maze feat. Frankie Beverly, O.A.R., Galactic, Tower of Power, Cowboy Mouth, Bettye LaVette, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Buckwheat Zydeco, Dirty Dozen Brass Band,...  read more

Jazz Fest to be Broadcast Live Online

Not going to make it down to the Big Easy this weekend for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival? That doesn’t mean you have to miss it. The AT&T blue room will webcast live performances from the festival May 5 and 6. Scheduled to appear on the broadcast are Norah Jones, the Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer and ZZ Top, among others. Also available in the blue room are archived performances from the first weekend of the festival, which took place April 28 and 29. Other festivals included in this year’s blue room will include Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin...  read more

A Little Help From Our Friends

Basin Street Records, a New Orleans indie label that’s home to jazz legends Henry Butler and Irvin Mayfield, among others...  read more