They said it at the Legislature
During tense budget negotiations in the Senate president's office between delegations of senators and representatives, Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexander, received a text message from Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, that read: "Please say 'fiscal'...
DATE: June 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Gas, Food and Lodging in full swing
The Gas Food and Lodging Festival has hit stride over the past week at three local music venues. The festival, which encompasses more than 30 different artists stopping in Baton Rouge on their way to or from the annual South by Southwest Music, Film...
DATE: March 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Surround Sounds
Musical detour
Baton Rouge is one of the perfect pit stops for touring bands looking to make a splash at the annual South-by-Southwest festival in Austin.
DATE: March 08, 2013 | CATEGORY: News (225)
In this home of blues
Like oil or crawfish or Mardi Gras, the blues in Louisiana seems less a product of our own manufacturing and more like a natural resource carried by weary feet stomping on dusty floorboards, mighty hands bending time-weathered strings, venerable...
DATE: February 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Soul roots
My True Story was supposed to be Aaron Neville’s “doo-wop” project, a loving tribute to the music that made its deepest imprint in Neville’s musical consciousness. But by the time it was ready for release, it had...
DATE: December 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Run for your life
When he was little, Brandon Williams could be spotted running around the playground at Wildwood Elementary School in cowboy boots, not Nikes.
DATE: December 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Letting his folk flag fly
Like many revolutionary ideas of synthesis, the one guitarist Roger McGuinn had in 1964 left a Mercury rocket-sized chorus of why-didn't-I-think-of-thats in the trail of its bright burning exhaust. But blending the electric energy of the early...
DATE: July 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan
In 2009, Dirty Projectors did two great things: one, they released the hyper-eclectic, yet somehow catchy and critically adored Bitte Orca, and two, they helped Lafayette band GIVERS skyrocket to success by bringing them on tour. Bitte...
DATE: June 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Twee pop queen grows up?
It's hard to take Regina Spektor seriously some times. She has a penchant for inserting quirky vocal acrobatics into songs. If she's singing about dolphins, she'll try to sound like one. This can be fun to some or annoying to others. Thankfully, her...
DATE: May 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
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