They've made it to Hollywood. Now, see what happens next.
HAMMOND — The Southeastern Louisiana University Community Music School is hosting a series of summer programs for young musicians.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: Mixed Nuts
The Baton Rouge Blues Festival will celebrate its 25th edition on April 13-14 with 45 performances and nine interview sessions in downtown Baton Rouge. And with five stages set up at this year's festival, there will be a lot of blues, rock 'n' rol…
Steve Conn could be Louisiana’s Jackson Browne or Bruce Hornsby. A Pineville native and LSU graduate based in Nashville, Conn is a keyboard-playing singer-songwriter whose songs mirror the depth and poignancy heard in Browne’s and Hornsby’s work.
The Time Out Lounge is going out on a high note. The Baton Rouge bar and music venue will close at the end of March, but before it does, a lineup of Time Out favorites will play the space, including blues-soul-R&B band MJ & The Redeemers, …
The new self-titled EP from Baton Rouge heavy metal band Booze might be your new air guitar anthem.
It's the 40th anniversary of TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard," and star John Schneider is celebrating his 59th birthday.
Mary McBride, a Washington, D.C.-based singer-songwriter with Louisiana roots, got the idea for the Home Tour in 2010. The inspiration came at a senior center in D.C., when a woman over 90 told McBride she never got to hear musical performances. S…
If you've ever thought about being an extra in a movie, an upcoming concert at the Varsity Theatre could be your chance. An indie film, "Daisy and Smiling Jack," will shoot a concert scene on Thursday, March 21, during a full set by Austin, Texas,…
Red Stick Social, the Government Street entertainment venue built in a renovated Entergy power plant, plans to open April 15, the business's owners said on Thursday.
"How are things in Baton Rouge?"
"Herbalism," the ruthless debut release by Baton Rouge stoner doom-metal band Megawitch, is deeper, darker and dirtier than month-old bong water.
Rap artist NBA Youngboy, who has been arrested twice since being put on three years’ probation in August 2017 for a Baton Rouge shooting, is now being accused by a New Orleans man of taking part in a “violent attack” in South Carolina in December.
Baton Rouge enthusiastically embraces the belief that "Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day." The popular annual Wearin' of the Green Parade — this year taking place Saturday, March 16, only a week and a half after Mardi Gras — kicks off a day f…
The heartbeat of Toronto indie pop band Tallies is couple Sarah Cogan and Dylan Frankland. The two met at university in Ottawa, where they were studying audio engineering and music business, and started a band as a school project. They used studio…
Dean Everett Jackson is in a Louisiana state of mind on his new album, "Her Cane Season."
Dr. Rani Whitfield has so far lived out a fair share of his dreams. Affectionately known as The Hip Hop Doc — a title he's also trademarked — the Baton Rouge native and general practice physician has played a little college basketball, created a c…
Brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone are otherwise known as the band For King & Country, which will be playing its "Burn the Ships World Tour" at 7 p.m., March 21, at the Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette.
The Rebirth Brass Band, Chris LeBlanc and Mike Broussard & Night Train will be among the performers playing Live After Five this spring. The Downtown Business Association, which produces Live After Five, announced the lineup for the six-concer…
Simon Lott found his place in New Orleans. It’s a drummer’s town.
Buddy Guy’s debut album, "Left My Blues in San Francisco," failed to chart. That wasn’t Guy’s fault. In the 1960s, Chess Records didn’t know what to do with the incendiary Chicago blues singer-guitarist from Louisiana.
KISS really was the hottest band in the world at a full Smoothie King Center. Especially drummer Eric Singer.
For the second time in as many years, prosecutors are asking a Baton Rouge judge to revoke rapper NBA YoungBoy’s probation in a 2016 drive-by shooting and send him to prison.
A punch of hardcore punk and dynamic ’90s emo, Secret Smoker’s sophomore album, “Dark Clouds,” is potent and ever-changing. It’s aggressive and filterless while utilizing the creative freedoms, tempo changes and introspective lyrics of alternative…
It has been almost 10 years since Eric Slick signed on as the drummer for Dr. Dog. His rhythms keep the beat for what many critics have called an impressive and experimental rock band. Fans have called the Philadelphia-based band everything from i…
Mavis Staples may very well lead a revival when she headlines the second day of this year's Baton Rouge Blues Festival. The iconic soul singer, who was scheduled to perform during last year's Blues Festival but had to cancel due to the death of he…
Rapper Kevin Gates, a Baton Rouge native, will play this year's Groovin' at LSU, the university's student government announced today. The concert will take place Thursday, March 14, in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on LSU's campus. Tickets, wh…
Black History Month, a time of celebration and education about African-American history and culture, is well underway in Baton Rouge. And it is continuing strong through the end of February.
Adam Dollar$ is what you may call a “rapper’s rapper.” The Baton Rouge emcee, who has been making waves within the region over the last few years, isn't shy about being regarded as a premier lyricist in the city. He understands the nuance that com…
Baton Rouge band Quarx has steadily made a name for itself since 2017, when it stepped into the Baton Rouge live music scene with its self-described "wholesale rock 'n' roll," which mingles influences from many genres and crafts a timeless, eclect…
Like music in New Orleans and Louisiana, Cuban music runs generation to generation. Traditional music groups in the Caribbean island nation can consist solely of family members. Also like New Orleans — the American city considered the northernmost…
Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line will help welcome the Bayou Country Superfest back to Baton Rouge for its 10th anniversary on May 25-26.
A new food and music festival with a distinct alt-country flavor is coming to downtown Baton Rouge this summer. Son Volt, Old 97's, Shooter Jennings and The Bottle Rockets will perform at the inaugural Bandito Food and Music Festival, taking place…
Brian Shaw, Willis Delony and Phillip Manuel join Baton Rouge Symphony for a night of big band swing
The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra can often be found giving an impressive classical performance. At its upcoming “Valentine’s Swing” event, however, the BRSO will be performing big-band swing — and not just as a big band, but a big band with a st…
Samantha Fish greets backhanded compliments — things like “Pretty good for a girl,” “You play like a guy” — with a challenge: “Plug in your guitar, man. Let’s go.”
Album review: Almost a lost album, Cohen Hartman releases the carnival-esque 'Incredible Destructor'
To tell the story of "The Incredible Destructor," we have to go back almost a decade and talk about Phantom Party Records. Around 2010 to 2012 (give or take a bit of time), Cohen Hartman along with Matt Sigur, Jon Tillman and several other local m…
“Bloom,” the new album from Baton Rouge rapper Igmatic, features smart rhymes and slick, jazzy beats, but ultimately, it ends up as a collection of typical, if not burnt out, chill-hop.
Unless you're the greatest, most creative planner, Valentine's Day can come with a little bit of pressure. You could be within the first year of an exciting, new relationship or decades into a loving, committed partnership — either way, you are pr…
Louisiana blues legend Buddy Guy takes the stage for PBS' "Austin City Limits" at 11 p.m. Saturday on WLPB, Channel 27 (cable Channel 12).
After a pair of albums on which New York-born Leyla McCalla accompanied herself on her trademark instrument, the cello, "The Capitalist Blues" finds her on the tenor banjo and electric guitar, deepening her musical ties to New Orleans, her adopted…
Baton Rouge music followers know Alex V. Cook as a singer-songwriter and guitarist in The Rakers, and he’s a music journalist who has published three books.
It’s easy to hear the classic country voice of June Carter Cash in her daughter Carlene Carter’s singing.
Is anyone in Louisiana genuinely excited about this year's Super Bowl? Our guess is no — unless you like the Patriots, in which case you probably also cheer for Alabama. Most of us in south Louisiana are still a little burned by the Saints being robbed.
Sarah Elizabeth Burke’s music buzzes with an achy truthfulness and deep sincerity. It can be seen in the technical excellence she has mastered in a variety of instruments and in her heart-striking lyrics sung in a voice so clear it can only be des…
Jon Cleary grew up in the small town of Cranbrook in Kent, England. It’s not an obvious place of origin for a New Orleans-based, Grammy-winning rhythm-and-blues artist.
Baton Rouge's DeadCentered is difficult to ignore on its full-length debut, a brutal blitz of hardcore punk and thrash metal known as “Washed Up, Enough.”
Boosie Badazz has settled his lawsuit against the city of Biloxi, Edgewater Mall’s management company and its security service, but he’s still urging fans on social media to stay away.
Songwriter and vocalist Sarah Castro had long dreamed about having a band that co-wrote and created together. Spending years as a solo performer, she wanted to form a band that represented more than herself.
With "Guilty Machines," Baton Rouge emcee Phosfiend is unabashedly doing exactly what he wants. The album, the third release by Phosfiend, aka Donovan Simms, continues his M.O. of mining the darker, stranger parts of hip-hop and adding his own phi…
RiaRosa will lift you up into a reverb-drenched dream and gently set you down into a groove.