I’m over being mad at major-network news. After yesterday’s post on growing up and how it involves dealing with the immutable nature of certain entities, like hurricanes and MSNBCFOXCNNAOLCBSABC, I showcase the positive. Let’s turn up the volume on our great music!
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing: Peter Scholtes of Minneapolis City Pages posted a wonderul article yesterday that consists mainly of lists on how to keep up with New Orleans, how to help our musicians, how to help in general and links to good writeups on the city.
Peter points us to the New Orleans Jazz neighborhood history map, with key musical areas highlighted. It’s sad to note that quite a few of these areas suffered most from the flooding.
New Orleans Jazz History Map . Courtesy National Park Service
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Voodoo In Memphis This Year: AntiGravity Magazine mainman and Twiropa DJ, Leo McGovern, informs that the Voodoo Music Experience, held in New Orleans every Halloween, has moved to Memphis this year. Several of us looked forward to the great lineup, but I’m happy that it’s going forth, especially given that “proceeds will benefit the New Orleans Restoration Fund, an arm of the Entertainment Industry Foundation.”
“Since our home-base is New Orleans, it’s been an especially difficult time for us, with staff losing homes and offices, and some of them losing everything,” says Stephen Rehage, founder and independent producer of the Voodoo Music Experience. “Moving a festival of this magnitude has been no easy task and we are grateful to the City of Memphis for extending their hospitality, to Trent Reznor for voicing his advocacy of NORF and Voodoo, to all the artists dedicating their time and energy to support the cause and to our incredible fans for their dedication and support over these last few weeks.”
Foo Fighters and Social Distortion will not perform due to “unforeseen circumstances.” New Orleans artists include The Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama (yay!), Ballzack and many others.
Incidentally, “[Trent Reznor’s] performance of ‘Entity’ [and ‘Hurt’] from the MTV Hurricane Benefit Show is available as an audio download for 99c from the Sony Connect website. All proceeds will go to charity.” (Sony Connect works only on Internet Explorer, for you Firefox and Safari users out there.)
Leo lost his home in the flood, but uses the AntiGravity blog to showcase the music and restoration of New Orleans.
Yesterday Les and I went back into Crescent City Comics to grab a few more things and to clean up. We went in the back way, meaning we took Carrollton (which turns into Wisner) towards Filmore, and Filmore up to Elysian Fields. The neighborhoods along Filmore are just demolished, entire blocks still wet and everywhere is muddy. This is a shot from just over the canal … later today we go into Chalmette to view my grandma’s house.
My best wishes to Leo and his family and friends.
