For the first time since 2017, The Meters are returning to the stage. The influential funk group, Zigaboo Modeliste, George ...

Buy the ticket, take the ride, wrote Hunter S. Thompson of life, which the US writer believed should be lived at full ...

In the late ’60s, as the Black Power movement gained steam, funk became its soundtrack. Young people organized free breakfast ...

Lakeshore Wind Ensemble and Big Band brings its 'Pops Across America' event to the Capitol Civic Centre Jan. 18.

Iconic New Orleans funk pioneers The Meters will reunite for their first show in nearly a decade during Jazz Fest 2026.

Music is an essential part of American culture, shaping cities and communities in unique and unforgettable ways. While ...

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died ...

Spring brings mountains of ruby-red strawberries from farms north of Lake Pontchartrain, summer delivers the famous Creole tomatoes that locals wait for all year, and fall introduces citrus varieties ...

Kurt Schauer (pronounced “shower”) does not fit neatly into the stereotype of a jazz aficionado. He neither exudes erudition ...

Wayne Bennett put a shine on beloved recordings by Otis Rush and Bobby “Blue” Bland, but he only cut one single under his own ...

Teaser Fest features the Queen of the Striptease competition, edgy new acts and classic burlesque to New Orleans on Jan.

Today in Music History for Jan. 23: In 1893, Episcopal minister Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts and author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," died. In 1940, country singer-songwriter Johnny ...