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Axe to Grind: Heavy Metal in New Orleansnew

Internationally known New Orleans metal bands power what's still a locally underground scene.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 02-11-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: New Orleans, Outlaw Order, heavy metal music

Jimmy Hughes Gets Another Chance at FAMEnew

A collection of 18 remastered tracks Hughes recorded at FAME studios in the 1960s will be released this week.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 10-29-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: R&B, Jimmy Hughes, FAME, The Best Of Jimmy Hughes

With a Name Like the Gutter Twins, It's Got to be Goodnew

Longtime collaborators Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan just released their first CD as the Gutter Twins.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 03-19-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Gutter Twins, Saturnalia

The Fabulous Fantoms Keep it Old Schoolnew

Back together for the first time in 30 years, the Fantoms have talked about recording again, but for now just playing together again is enough.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 12-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Fabulous Fantoms

Mourning Glorynew

The Happy Talk Band's new CD There, There includes a collection of eulogizing songs about bohemian New Orleans performed by an evolving band.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 10-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Happy Talk Band, There, There

It's Hard Out There for a Pimpnew

Once the subject of the documentary American Pimp, blues singer Fillmore Slim is now approaching 75 and focusing on his music.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 09-25-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Fillmore Slim, The Legend of Fillmore Slim

Joe Clay's Shake, Rattle and Rockabillynew

The rockabilly legend may be better known to European audiences than in his hometown of New Orleans.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 09-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Joe Clay

Michelle Shocked's Songs of Praisenew

To Heaven U Ride is a gospel-based homage to New Orleans.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 09-05-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Michelle Shocked, To Heaven U Ride

Zydepunks: Common Folknew

The band has been playing its hybrid blend of accordion and fiddle-driven folk-punk since 2004.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 08-21-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Exile Waltz, Zydepunks

Galactic's Street Beatsnew

The futuristic funk band collaborated with a host of guest MCs on its latest release.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 08-15-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: From the Corner to the Block, Galactic

Polyphonic Spree's up to 28 members have shed their cultlike robes for a unifying military look, and its latest record, The Fragile Army, still has the sunny sound the group is known for but takes on more serious subject matter lyrically and sartorically.

Gambit | Alison Fensterstock | 06-26-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army