When musicians want to stand out, they often dress up in bad costumes, resort to ridiculous stage antics or dismiss song structure all together.

You'll be sorry if you head to the kitchen to make that leftover turkey sandwich during halftime of the New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons game on Thanksgiving Day.

The new album by Baton Rouge punks Future Talk begins with a deep, diabolical laugh, probably warning us of the mind-melting music to come.

Note: Due to a power outage downtown, Loudon Wainwright's show has been moved to Red Dragon Listening Room, 2401 Florida Blvd. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Note: This show has been moved to Southside Arts Center, 524 N. Foster Drive.

The Baton Rouge Blues Foundation announced the hire of a new executive director Wednesday morning.

Everything about songwriter Ameal Cameron exudes good vibes.

Jarekus Singleton says he’s lucky.

Joshua Henderson's stage handle, _thesmoothcat, is almost too on the nose. On stage, the emcee and his band, The 9th Life, are relaxed and cool — an infectious cool that mellows out the crowd one verse, then amps things back up the next.

Nashville’s Excello Records had a blues pipeline to J.D. Miller’s studio in southwest Louisiana. From 1955 through 1965, Miller produced swamp blues records for Excello, and many of the label’s artists came from Baton Rouge — including Slim Harpo,…

Jason Martin fills his second album with crunchy, riffing rock. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitarist from Baton Rouge recorded “Alcatraz” during a five-day period in Music City. The album’s only nonoriginal song, a take on Thin Lizz…

A somewhat successful singer-songwriter named James Taylor, probably best remembered as Carly Simon's ex-husband, is coming to Baton Rouge in February.

Grammy-winning jazz guitarist John Scofield has roots in Louisiana. His mother, a New Orleans native, attended high school with one of the city’s music stars, Louis Prima. At the time, what’s now called traditional jazz was just contemporary music.

Baton Rouge duo Palomino Darling’s new album may be titled “Anything But Human,” but the project pivots around two topics all too familiar to most people: love and heartache.

Country music’s latest luminary hasn’t forgotten his roots in north Louisiana.

If Lucia Micarelli followed the conventional path for classical music virtuosos, she’d be playing violin concertos in the world’s great concert halls. The strict musical regimen she experienced until she was 17 dictated that would be her fate.

Never afraid to go deep for a song, Mary Gauthier tackles tough subjects with searing honesty. A former Baton Rougean, Gauthier co-wrote the songs on her latest album, “Rifles & Rosary Beads,” with military veterans and their spouses.

Weeks from the end of his farewell concert tour, Paul Simon has released a disc that feels like a valedictory itself.

He’s got a new album, a new manager and a new name.

Country musician Luke Combs didn't pick up a guitar until he was 21 years old, but within the last seven years, he's had a No. 1 album and three platinum-selling singles.

You can’t keep a good band down.

Heavy Mantle was born out of necessity.

A new Baton Rouge creative collective, Junco Podnahs, hopes to spotlight the city's music and arts scenes in a series of events that kicks off this weekend.

On a Sunday morning in June, CJ Solar learned that “Up Down,” a song he co-wrote, was poised to top Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. Singer Morgan Wallen picked up the song for his debut album and recorded it with Florida Georgia Line.