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Often known as the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans holds the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival to celebrate the boiling pot of culture and music that brews under the historic city. Yet as a plethora of other genres have stemmed from jazz, the festival also includes contemporary artists that breathe new life into the dying genre. It seems that this year's lineup will include the legendary pianist Billy Joel; Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean; ubiquitous R&B group Earth, Wind and Fire and the guitar virtuosos of B.B. King and John Mayer. The [...]

photo by Morgen Schuler The first of several videos we'd like to share with you this morning is Dinosaur Jr. 's new clip for "Pierce the Morning Rain," a cut from last year's I Bet on Sky . The video stars actor James Urbaniak as a man obsessed with finding the perfect car stereo and comedian Maria Bamford as his concerned wife. (Henry Rollins also makes an appearance and roughs Urbaniak up a bit.) Watch the video below, and look out for J Mascis's appearance on Portlandia on January 25th. [...]

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will will webcast a number of this weeknd’s sets on  YouTube , including My Morning Jacket, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Bruce Hornsby, Allen Toussaint, The Neville Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and a tribute to the late Alex Chilton featuring Dave Pirner, Alex McMurray, Susan Cowsill, Doug Garrison and René Coman. A number of last weekend's set will be replayed, including Bon Iver, Janelle Monáe, Glen Hansard, Jimmy Buffett, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, and George Porter, Jr. and Runnin' Pardners. Check out the full webcast [...]

Today is the day that is eagerly awaited by tens of thousands of fans of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The daily stage and time schedules were released at a press conference at the New Orleans Fairgrounds. The paddock area, home to the Lagniappe stage over the seven days of the festival (April 28-May 6, 2012), buzzed with anticipation since many of the members of the local media are also longtime fans of the signature event of the New Orleans festival season. This being a Jazz Fest crowd, music was [...]

No es una novedad que para los shows en vivo los chicos de Arcade Fire gusten de tocar sus propias versiones de algunos otros artistas, sin embargo esta vez se han visto bastante pop al sacar del baúl una de las canciones que fueron un estandarte de la escena pop de los 80s, sí, adivinaron, Arcade Fire haciendo un cover de “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” . Una canción que sin duda cualquiera en la actualidad se sabe o por lo menos los coros, situación de la que los canadienses debieron haber estado más que enterados [...]

Sonny Rollins was jacked Sunday night. And by the time the 80-year-old saxophone colossus finished his set at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the folks in the jazz tent were jacked, too. In fact, a good portion of the audience members were crowding near the front of the stage to dance as Sonny played "St. Thomas." My friend who attended the show and I have collectively seen Sonny play more than 20 times. Neither of us have ever heard him play harder. His set was a great way to end my first jazz fest. [...]

Watch 'Sprawl II' below. Be certain to catch Arcade Fire on their American tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Zambri Mix)

Much to their chagrin, the security folks couldn't keep folks from dancing in the aisles during Wanda Rouzan's set Saturday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. And that was even before Rouzan ripped into "Ooo Poo Pa Doo" and a second line started. Rouzan pranced around the stage singing everything from "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" to "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." She ripped into some '70s-style soul and funk, too. Her set was the most energetic and engaging I've seen at jazz fest so far ... and that's saying something. I [...]

I never got a chance to hear Stevie Ray Vaughan live. Luckily, Guitar Slim Jr., one of Stevie Ray's friends, swirled into the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday and provided a super-charged glimpse of what it might have been like. Guitar Slim Jr.'s covers of "Pride and Joy" and House is Rockin'" were incendiary. Sandwiched by some torrid boogie woogie piano licks and some cool B3 organ riffs, Guitar Slim exploded. In two days at jazz festival, I've yet to see anyone else drive a crowd into as big a frenzy. The [...]

I shouldn't have been surprised that Charmaine Neville's set was the highlight of my first visit to the New Orleans jazz and Heritage Festival. New Orleans is, after all, the Nevilles' town. In fact, I was about ready to head to the stage featuring Lucinda Williams when I spied Charles Neville, Charmaine's father. Needless to say, I stayed. I knew the set would be special when Charles slowed the pace of the normally jaunty "Take the A Train" almost to a crawl, allowing listeners to savor every note from his saxophone. Charmaine improvised around him, [...]

The 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest has released its menu, and it's only fitting that the vittles will be as ambitious and eclectic as the rest of the line-up. The 10-day cultural mosh pit of musicians, cooks and artisans-inspired by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington’s impromptu and legendary 1970 post-Louisiana Heritage Fair revelry-has cranked it up a notch this year. Scheduled for April 29-May 1 and May 5-8 with a motley crew of musicians like Arcade Fire, Willie Nelson, Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, the fest is also hosting [...]

The festival gods spoke again last night, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest has announced its crossover rich lineup for this year's festival. The festival as always will take place over two weekends, April 29-May 1 and May 5-8, and will feature a ton of acts both jazz and non-jazz related. For the modern, indie fan this year they have the great Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Wilco, Mumford & Sons and The Decemberists in the lineup for your pleasure, as well as many more. For the non-indie, non-jazz fans they do have Bon Jovi (?). Other [...]

Filed under: Around the World NEW ORLEANS -- Refugee quickly became a loaded word in post-flood New Orleans. Sure, locals have long joked (some more jokingly than others) that the city is a Third World country. But refugee is really Third World: Africa, the Balkans, places torn by war and/or famine. Or so these displaced people insisted. For those scattered around the country after the US Army Corps of Engineers' flood walls failed after Hurricane Katrina touched in August 2005, being called that was just another insult, on top [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Art Garfunkel 's hoarse voice wasn't going to stop Simon and Garfunkel from taking the stage for their headlining set Saturday evening at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz Fest . For starters, it was Garfunkel's first time playing the longstanding festival, now in its 41st year. The duo opened their soft set of iconic folk songs with 'Hazy Shade of Winter' and it was almost immediately apparent that Simon was helping his buddy out on the high notes. [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Even Lionel Richie couldn't believe what was happening before him. "Seriously, stay outta that lake out there," Richie jokingly told the crowd that, at some points, had been wading through knee-deep water at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz Fest . But torrential downpours and lightning didn't stop people covered in ponchos and umbrellas from seeing the former Commodore close out the first night of the festival. "My God, I don't have to ask if you're die-hard [...]

2010 New Orleans Jazz Festival Some of the interesting artists and headliners at this year's New Orleans Jazz Festival (April 23 - May 2, 2010) include: Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, B.B. King, My Morning Jacket, Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes, Band of Horses, The Black Crowes, Drake, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, The Levon Helm Band, Allen Toussaint, Baaba Maal, The Dead Weather and many others. View the (more or less) complete lineup after the [...]

The New Orleans Jazz Festival, running April 23-25 and April 29-May 2nd in 2010, has just announced their lineup for this year, featuring a literal shit-ton of bands and acts, with Pearl Jam taking up the headlining duties this year for the second weekend (awesome) and the first weekend headliner is still TBA. Also performing at the fest will be Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Lionel Richie, The Neville Brothers, Allman Brothers Band, Anita Baker, My Morning Jacket, Darius Rucker, and Widespread Panic along with literally buttloads more including The Dead Weather, Band of Horses, Parliament/Funkadelic, and Theresa Anderson. [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Pearl Jam , the Dead Weather and My Morning Jacket are some of the bands set to make their first appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this spring. The lineup for the venerable festival, now entering its 41st year, includes return performances by Aretha Franklin , the Allman Brothers and Van Morrison , and Louisiana music fixtures such as the Neville Brothers , Dr. John and Galactic . [...]