Musical home-wreckers hit right notes in New Orleans
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Trombonist Craig Klein recalls ripping open the door to his house 14 months ago and finding a second calling.
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MIAMI -- Bryan Randall grabbed a set of Mardi Gras beads and waved them aloft, while his teammates exalted in the prospect of a trip to New Orleans.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has something to sing about, thanks to Nick Lachey and the hometown choir he put together.
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From Hawaii to the Philadelphia suburbs, community sings, or singalongs draw together the average-voiced and bring old songs into common memory.
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With its irresistible hip-hop beats and shouted refrains, crunk music incites a fervor in fans that's reminiscent of a religious experience.
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Levon Helm, a veteran of the Band, has become a childrenâs troubadour.
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In post-Katrina New Orleans, the land speculators are moving in to buy up devastated properties, but the real opportunist may be the guy next door, just trying to bring back his neighborhood
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, going home to New Orleans has become a receding dream for thousands of evacuees.
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Million-dollar Antebellum beauties are up for grabs in New Orleans' history-rich part of town.
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Led by Wynton Marsalis, a swinging group of musicians belted out "When the Saints Go Marching In" as they strutted down Broadway to kick off the opening of the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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The first anniversary of the biggest calamity to befall this city was marked Tuesday with a moment of silence, wreath-layings, the tolling of bells and, in true New Orleans fashion, a wailing jazz funeral through the potholed streets for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Tim McLooneâs dulcet tones can be heard in venues as cavernous as the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford and as cozy as a bar at the Jersey Shore.
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The Dears mesh decorous  pop eclecticism with far darker emotional outbursts of clanging  rock. The most enthralling moments of the Montreal sextet's  performance Wednesday at the Troubadour came with finely  arranged numbers that summoned mystery and an almost epic magic  fit for much larger venues, which the band deserves.
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The Roots have been immovable pillars of left-of-center rap for over ten years, making a deft mix of hip-hop and jazz, live instrumentation and intelligent rhymes their trademark.
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Singer Aaron Neville, one of New  Orleans' long string of musical sons, hasn't returned to his  hometown for more than a year because he says he can't bear to  see the battering the city took from Hurricane Katrina.
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Musicians performing in the hometown of James Brown may soon be getting a reminder that they're in the stomping grounds of the Godfather of Soul.
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Actor and musician Harry Connick Jr. returned to his hometown to break ground on Thursday on a project aimed at restoring a New Orleans music scene damaged by Hurricane Katrina.