If finding success in the rap game is like playing chess, then Adam Dollar$ has been playing like a grandmaster. The Baton Rouge emcee has for several years been networking, making phone calls and building authentic relationships around the music …
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Greazy Alice
Kim Carson forged her musical identity in the raw, twangy, pedal steel and fiddle sounds of 1940s and ’50s honky-tonk country.
Since December, Hal Lambert and Mitchell Mobley have been experimenting like musical mad scientists, improvising obscure soundscapes in unconventional ways.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Eazybaked
Many musicians would be just fine with earning the kind of success seen by Lost Bayou Ramblers. The Grammy-winning Cajun band melded brothers Louis and Andre Michot’s traditional music heritage with heavy rock, producing a huge repertoire of origi…
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Party at Joe's
The Black Keys are back with a return to their roots. And just in case their opening song doesn't make that clear enough, the album's title — "Let's Rock" — spells out their intention.
In December, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys celebrated three decades as a band with a show at Lafayette's Vermilionville. The Grammy-nominated quintet — along with a few surprise guests — captured that concert on the recently released live a…
Louisiana's American Idol Laine Hardy is in the nation's capital to sing for PBS' "A Capitol Fourth" on Thursday night.
John Schneider, ex-'Dukes of Hazzard' star, 'weds' longtime girlfriend at studio's barn in Louisiana
Actor-singer John Schneider and longtime girlfriend Alicia Allain exchanged wedding vows in Holden on Tuesday, People magazine reports.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Mr. Sex Appeal & The Undesirables
The Stonewall Uprising is considered a critical turning point for the LGBTQ civil rights movement. When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969, it set off a string of galvanizing protests …
When Kathy Mattea reached her 50s, there were some nights on stage she sang better than ever. But on other nights, she couldn’t hit notes in songs she’d been singing for decades.
Zach Andrus has said his new EP, “No Money,” is a "first step in clawing my way back up to the top of 2019." The first half of the year has been rough, he said, and he decided to use music to help turn things around.
The Celebration of Life started out with lofty ambitions.
Massive firework displays, cookouts, live music, parades — there are a lot of ways the Baton Rouge area celebrates the Fourth of July.
With NBA YoungBoy already facing a probation revocation hearing Friday, prosecutors on Thursday filed a third motion asking a state judge to revoke the Baton Rouge rapper's probation in a 2016 drive-by shooting on Kentucky Street.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: SpicyBois
In a time of deep divisions, Son Volt bandleader Jay Farrar still believes music can heal and inspire.
South Louisiana rapper John Anthony encapsulates the ambition of his debut album in one verse.
A new music and food festival with a Texas borderlands style will join downtown Baton Rouge's bustling festival schedule on Saturday.
Just a few hours after "An American Idol Story: Laine Hardy - Episode 1" was posted on YouTube on Friday, it had already surpassed 12,000 views.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Electric Yat String Quartet
John Broven, while living in the South of England during the 1950s and ’60s, loved American blues, rhythm-and-blues and swamp pop. He later documented the music in a trio of essential books, including the newly revised “South to Louisiana: The Mus…
Ragtime has been a celebrated American style for well over a century. On its new, self-titled EP, the Heel-String Harmonizers give the genre a proper salute.
The walls at Jack’s Place in Port Allen don’t need to talk. They already tell countless stories from the 95-year-old bar’s long history.
On the heels of his performance at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., on June 6, Louisiana's American Idol Laine Hardy will be returning to the nation's capital to sing for PBS' "A Capitol Fourth."
South Louisiana native Lauren Daigle won big again last week.
Indie rock outfit Baby in the 90s knows how to build anticipation.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Lying Shames
Drone metal sounds best played loud. For the full experience, you need to hear the amps buzz on the quiet parts, hear the feedback weave an atmospheric dirge around slow-pounding riffs.
The organizers of the Baton Rouge Funk Fest are taking the slow and steady approach to growth.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Cheer Camp
An artist’s workspace can say a lot about them. What they put on the walls or what tools they use can reveal more about the person and their process. Frame of Mind is a monthly Red feature focusing on Baton Rouge creators and the spaces they work in.
Jack Barksdale is certainly among the younger singer-songwriters in Texas. At 11 years old, he is releasing his debut album this month, a collection of seven original songs along with his renditions of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” and Towne…
Album review: As SPLLIT, two Baton Rouge musicians write and record imaginative new album in one day
A new music project has popped up in Baton Rouge, starting with a direct but difficult challenge: two musicians each wrote and recorded half of an album, for a split release, in just one day.
Attention Laine Hardy fans: Set your DVRs or plan to stay up late on Thursday night.
Bayou Country Superfest drew about 50,000 people to Tiger Stadium over Memorial Day weekend, less than half the size of the crowd that showed up the last time the event was held in Baton Rouge in 2016 and smaller than crowds attending during years…
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Joyous Wolf
Starting in 2010, with his album "Plays Blues, Ballads and Favorites," Texas singer-guitarist Jimmie Vaughan and his band, Tilt-A-Whirl, are recording their renditions of the 1950s and ’60s blues, R&B, country music and swamp pop that knocked …
Baton Rouge Gallery’s Movies & Music on the Lawn program, which is about to begin its 2019 season, has made great strides since its first screening in 1998.
Producer Quint Davis says something clicked when the audience in LSU's Tiger Stadium erupted during Kenny Chesney's closing set at the first Bayou Country Superfest. Chesney was headlining Sunday of the two-day country music festival in 2010 — the…
Saturday marks the double-barreled return of Bayou Country Superfest and Cassadee Pope to Tiger Stadium.
Bayou Country Superfest returns to LSU's Tiger Stadium this weekend for its 10th edition.
Louisiana's new American Idol Laine Hardy has survived "The View."
It was a 24-hour, cross-country whirlwind for Livingston's Laine Hardy in his first day as the 17th American Idol on Monday.
Laine Hardy's victory tour has begun.
A state judge Friday ordered Baton Rouge rapper NBA YoungBoy held behind bars until at least June 21 while authorities probe whether a man seen in a social media video making violent threats is — as the judge strongly suspects — the same rapper sh…
Anxious to get your hands on tickets to see the Rolling Stones' July 14 stop in New Orleans?
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: The Troll Smashers