Tag: music

  • Radiohead's lamest album

    Scot Hacker is all over the new iTunes store story, dropping wisdom on theory and practice left and right. Caveat: a man who calls OK Computer “Radiohead’s lamest album” is a man who has outgrown cannabis.

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 3

    The good news is I haven’t had time each day to get online and upload pictures and such and even now I’m just going to dump raw notes and maybe come back to it later: large iced café au lait beignets …to Blues tent to grab seats, then back out for… crab cake and seafood…

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 2

    Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys some earthernware pottery from Dallas.…

  • For those who cannot be here

    Sue W. reminds me that WWOZ is broadcasting much of the Fest.

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 1

    …took a bunch of pictures, here are just a few (insterspersed among a quick rundown of music and eats)… large iced café au lait 3 beignets Hackberry Ramblers (Fais Do-Do stage) … their 70th anniversary, fresh back from Europe and the Today Show, their 16th straight year at Fest… some technical difficulties, gremlins, intros, 3rd…

  • Earl King, R.I.P.

    Speaking of Earl King, I was sad to read this obituary for Earl King one of the great New Orleans guitarists. (Times userid: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie) Most famous outside of NO (and best compensated for) Jimi Hendrix’s cover (as “Let the Good Times Roll”) of his “Come On,” and for the Mardi Gras standard “Big…