With the weather still boiling and New Orleans hitting its downtime between summer festivals and tourist season, many of us are spending more time indoors in the air conditioning. Make your time productive by taking one of these free online courses: Basic Concepts of Mus... Read more

August is museum month in New Orleans, which means if you're a member of one participating museum or cultural center, you and a guest can both receive free admission to any of the participating locations in August. Many are also offering membership discounts and special eve... Read more

The Charmaine Neville Band with a non-standard take on "Summertime" at Snug Harbor in 2009. With lots of awesome New Orleans-in-the-summer embellishments. Video © Beate Sandor.It didn't sound like this in Porgy & Bess!  Read more

The Anders Osborne Band with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (and Johnny Sansone) rock the WWOZ stage at the 2012 Voodoo Music Experience. This track, "They Don't Know," comes from their 2002 collaboration Bury The Hatchet.  Read more

Jon Cleary's new album, Go Go Juice, is out this Friday, August 14. Recorded at Dockside Studios in rural Maurice, Louisiana, and finished at Cleary's own spot in the Bywater, the record is a great snapshot of the funky and soulful side of the Crescent City today. Cleary h... Read more

On Breathless (2015), Terence Blanchard serves up "a sound different from the left-center jazz quintet he leads: something overtly funky, with electric bass and guitar and processing and human voices and dance grooves." The recording, three songs from which you can hear in ... Read more

This week is Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame Celebration Week, a time dedicated to honoring the Mardi Gras Indian tradition and taking a closer look at the community's achievements over the past year. This year, the Hall of Fame is taking special effort to address an issue t... Read more