Morphine lives on in The Members of Morphine, with Jeremy Lyons AKA The Ever Expanding Elastic Wasteband. They played live today on the Blues Breakdown, community radio style, raw and minimal. See them tonight, here in New Orleans, at D.B.A. on Frenchman Street. The band fe... Read more

On May 5, 1885 a group of civic-minded African American residents of the village of Mandeville, led by the late Olivia Eunio, created the Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Association. A decade later the organization laid a cornerstone and in 1895 constructed a small wooden b... Read more

The Original Prince of Wales social and pleasure club held their 82nd annual second line this past Sunday, October 10th, starting and ending at the Rock Bottom lounge on Tchoupitoulas. Lead by club leader Joe Stern a.k.a "White Boy Joe", The Prince of Wales is one of t... Read more

On Wednesday, October 20, "Mr. Personality" Lloyd Price will visit Billy Delle at WWOZ at around 7 p.m. Price is a legendary New Orleans-based R&B singer whose hit "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" brought him national fame in 1952. Read more

On today’s show we preview the 12th annual Voodoo Experience, taking place on October 29-31, 2010, in City Park behind the New Orleans Museum of Art. We also highlight some performances from previous years at Voodoo Experience, including Ivan Neville, Troy "Trombone Shorty"... Read more

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One of the things that saved my life after a series of unfortunate events was A Man Named Pearl. I am talking about Pearl Fryar from Bishopville South Carolina. Pearl is an artist in the most purest form. A folk artist. A genius. A black man in a small southern town, who w... Read more

This month's recipe for barbecue shrimp and sweet potato grits comes from Priscilla Yee of Concord, California. Use Louisiana shrimp if you can get 'em, and you barbecue them in your oven instead of outdoors — perfect if you live somewhere with cold fall weather. Asian chili g... Read more