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For the past two weekends the Crescent City has played host to the annual New Orlean's Jazz & Heritage Festival . During their first-weekend set, Calexico paid tribute to one of New Orleans' native sons - the severely under-appreciated Bobby Charles. The late singer-songwriter, who likely best known to HT readers for his appearance on The Last Waltz soundtrack, began writing and recording songs at the age of 17. While he never quite achieved success as a solo artist, Charles' songs have been recorded by an impressive list of musicians including Ray Charles, [...]

The Internet's constant rush of new music is great. But time and time again, audiences come back to the old stuff. As of last year, catalog sales outpace new music sales . People who lived in the era of whatever that "old stuff" is seek it out for nostalgia and young people who never lived in that music's era long for a time in music history they never lived in. But how does the constant rush of quality new music get winnowed down and become “old stuff” or canon? Converting the varied ages at New Orleans Jazz & [...]

Si les gusta viajar, les presentamos esta breve guía de festivales fuera de México que quizá no conozcan. Texto: @christianxrojas En cuanto a festivales de música, no todo en la vida es Coachella o Lollapalooza . Es increíble que año con año surjan más y más festivales alrededor del mundo, y los que nacieron hace pocos años, hoy están completamente consolidados en su país de origen. Este 2013, la oferta de festivales fuera de México es vasta. ¿A dónde ir? ¿Cuál festival descubrir? Estas, y más, son preguntas [...]

As if 2013 wasn't already off to an amazing start, now The Strokes have jumped into the action by announcing a new single and album! That's the main headline on today's Rock it Out! Blog. Sami also discusses the lineup for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, how Protest the Hero fans are paying for their next album, the title of Phoenix's album, and Tom Morello's role in Bruce Springsteen's upcoming tour. Make sure to follow Rock it Out! Blog on  Twitter  and  Facebook , and subscribe to its  YouTube channel .

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival' s 2013 lineup is here: Frank Ocean, Phoenix, The Black Keys, Fleetwood Mac, Dave Matthews Band, Billy Joel, Widespread Panic, Hall & Oates, John Mayer, and Patti Smith will all take the stage over the festival's two weekends (April 26-28 and May 2-5). Other notables include Gary Clark Jr., Band of Horses, Andrew Bird, MuteMath, Jimmy Cliff, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Jill Scott, Dr. John, Ben Harper and Charlie Musslewhite, Earth, Wind & Fire, Maroon 5, Los Lobos, Charles Bradley, Calexico, Pokey LaFarge, The Del McCoury Band, Campbell Brothers, Jerry Douglas, [...]

HEAVEN BOUND “Soul Queen of New Orleans” Irma Thomas paid tribute to Mahalia Jackson at the 42nd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The atmosphere at the New Orleans Musicians for... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Allen Toussaint, fonky-fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and first-chair favorite son, makes his annual appearance this week at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – a tradition, he says, “which I dearly, dearly love.” Then, he plans to resume a completely revitalized solo recording career alongside Joe Henry, [...]

While there wasn't an official webcast from the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival , that will change for the second weekend as YouTube will stream performances live from The Fairgrounds this Friday through Sunday. While we wait for a schedule to come out, we do expect the My Morning Jacket and Preservation Hall Jazz Band sets to be broadcast on the free webcast, according to this video of the two acts performing Highly Suspicious together titled "Watch My Morning Jacket and Preservation Hall Jazz Band Live on Jazz [...]

The Eagles and Tom Petty play the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for the first time, as 20122s lineup is announced for the sprawling outdoor music event featuring rock, jazz, Americana, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun and zydeco. Advance tickets will be available at nojazzfest.com. Other notables include Herbie Hancock, Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, Bonnie Raitt, the Zac [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Around the World Amy Touchette It was one of those only-at-Jazz-Fest phenomena. The annual New Orleans extravaganza was having arguably the biggest concentration of star power in its history, with nearly all of its 10 stages featuring headlining stars in one or the other genres spotlighted in the wide-ranging "heritage" berth of its title. John Mellencamp was at the big stage [...]

Arcade Fire had a busy weekend in New Orleans. Along with an onstage collaboration with Cyndi Lauper , the band's appearance at this year's New Orleans Jazz Festival also saw Win and Régine join Haitian band RAM for a rendition of - you guessed it - "Haiti". Check out the clip above (via @arcadefiretube ). The two bands have collaborated quite a bit over the last year. Last summer, Arcade Fire and RAM teamed up for a performance of "Haiti" during the Quebec City Summer Fest - unfortunately, as far as I can [...]

"D'ya ever suck the head o' a crawdad?" Not something you're likely to overhear whilst standing in 30 degree heat at an Irish summer music festival. State has ended up at a huge racecourse in Louisiana and crawfish, or crawdaddy shells litter the ground around one of the numerous amazing food stalls that are scattered over the fairgrounds at this 7 day festival with 15 different stages. Whilst being billed as a 'Jazz and Heritage Festival' it's a musical event that has been taking place for over 40 years and has a range of acts from Haiti traditional drummers, Native [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Getty Images His days as a Byronic love god may be long past him, but Robert Plant proudly wore his Led Zeppelin past on his T-shirt sleeve during a stirring 90-minute set to close the first day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Friday (April 29). Dressed in a blue T-shirt, blue jeans and cowboy boots, with a chartreuse feather hanging from his [...]

Last night, Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy lengthy world tour brought them to the historic Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA. The 18-song show leaned mostly on  Zeppelin classics, mixed with material from his last two Americana-tinged albums. During their three-song encore Plant & Co. nodded to two of the Bay Area's iconic psychedelic rock acts by debuting covers of Jefferson Airplane's She Has Funny Cars and a Grateful Dead-inspired take on the traditional tune And We Bid You Goodnight that was sandwiched in between a take on Gallows Pole... [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Around the World Daniel Morel When the bands RAM Haiti and Boukman Eksperyans played at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival as part of the spring event's spotlight on Haitian arts and cultures that year, the shared aspects of the two places were hard to miss for the visiting musicians. The generations-ago influx of Afro-Caribbean traditions via the slave trade and, [...]

April  29 – May 8, 2011 New Orleans, LA It may be the only Fair Grounds on earth where you can wander between 12 outdoor stages with a cocktail larger than a toddler, eat alligator on a stick, and take in sets from wildly divergent world-class acts, all the while embracing the swampy goodness that is New Orleans in springtime. It can only mean one thing: Jazz Fest is back. Held ten days over the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May, the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival [...]

Were any of us foolish enough to believe this week would be all quiet on the Festivals news front? In the wake of Coachella's 2011 lineup announcement countless other premium festivals, both domestic and abroad, proved that they were not ready to go gentle into that good night. The New Orleans Jazz Fest dropped a formidable, genre-spanning bill, while Spain's Bilbao BBK Live proved that Amy Winehouse is not only alive, but still capable of being booked. We'd also be remiss not to note last night's surprising, yet totally kick ass bombshell. Reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel [...]

Our new online video channel,  Cluster 1 , was just updated with a bunch of glorious content. Here are some highlights: – Our host with the most, Mr. Sami Jarroush, offers a  Cluster 1 News Update , featuring stories on the return of Dismemberment Plan and festival updates from the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Wanee Music Fest, and the Sundance Film Festival. – Check out videos from Best Coast , Astronautalis , She & Him , and the Luyas . – Want a [...]

Looks like when one festival reveals their line up , the rest start coming out the woodwork. Thanks to Consequence of Sound , we now know the line up for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Now, to the uneducated, you're probably wondering why would we talk about a jazz festival. This is why you're uneducated. The two weekend fest - April 29-May 1 & May 5-May 8 - will be headlined by the likes of bands including Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Robert Plant & The Band of Joy and even [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Gus Stewart, Redferns Not one to be outdone by Coachella, another American festival stalwart -- the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival -- announced its lineup on Thursday, just one day after Coachella's official announcement. And this year's Jazz Fest , which traditionally takes over the city of New Orleans for two weeks every spring, seems to be giving that other festival in the desert a run for [...]