George Porter tells WWOZ's Black Mold how he's recorded every performance and how he spends a lot of his free time listening to those shows to see if any new "licks" have come from it. They also chat about Porter's musical background with classical guitar, the original name... Read more

Here's nine red-hot minutes of Little Freddie King rocking a medieval fortification in France, beautifully shot and recorded by what we're told were "a group of film and audio students." C'est bon! The title "Incruste au Nancy Jazz Pulsations" means something along the lines... Read more

Two weeks until Fat Tuesday and counting. Here's a look back to Mardi Gras in the middle of the last century, with videos from 1956 and 1941. 1956. This video combines footage by an unknown shooter with a batch of excellent still photos taken by the late John W. Mizenko, fat... Read more

On this week’s program, we celebrate some of the musical and cultural families of New Orleans, featuring sets by Ellis and Jason Marsalis, Steve and Sasha Masakowski, Aaron and Ivan Neville, and the late Walter Payton and his son, Nicholas Payton. Holly Hawthorne of the wh... Read more

Here's a treat for fans of Troy Andrews: a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute long Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue live show, originally streamed live from Tipitina's in September 2011 by Liveset. In full HD, it's bursting with full-screen goodness. According to Liveset, this "... Read more

Davis Rogan talks with Black Mold about the series finale of Treme, his character on the show, his career as a musician himself, and more fun stuff. Read more

If you've ever wondered (and really, who among us hasn't?), what a trad jazz cover of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" would sound like, have we got a video for you! It's from the album Twist is the New Twerk by Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox (see more about them be... Read more

The Whole Gritty City is a feature-length documentary, in which the directors of three New Orleans high school marching bands steer their students around the lures and dangers of the streets. It debuted last fall at the New Orleans Film Festival, and now it will have its na... Read more

Fellow lovers of soulful music and movies about soulful music, don't miss this New Orleans screening of the new, award-winning documentary Brothers Hypnotic (2013), directed by Reuben Atlas. Brothers Hypnotic Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:00 p.m. Contemporary Arts Center (C... Read more