Frenchmen Street mainstay the Spotted Cat Music Club plans to reopen this weekend for the first time in more than a year. The New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, a jazz band frequently featured at the Spotted Cat before the pandemic, is set to play Friday at 6 p.m. They’re followed by […]
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Prison is ‘a incredibly dehumanizing spot.’ Ani DiFranco and Zoe Boekbinder force back again with new music. | Keith Spera
Singer-songwriter Zoe Boekbinder experienced under no circumstances genuinely assumed about mass incarceration prior to doing at the maximum-safety New Folsom Jail exterior Sacramento, California, in Might 2010. But the prison built an fast and lasting impact. “It’s a really certainly dehumanizing place,” Boekbinder recalled not long ago. “On an emotional […]
With more clubs reopening, New Orleans will see ‘how much pent-up demand there is’ for live music | Keith Spera
Kermit Ruffins stepped down from his massive black pickup truck at the corner of A.P. Tureaud Avenue and North Dorgenois Street, ready to restore live music at one bar even as it disappeared from his own. Earlier Tuesday, city officials closed Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge for the second time in […]