This piece was originally published in the Sept. 8, 2005 edition of The Times-Picayune. It is one of many tragedies within the greater Hurricane Katrina tragedy: The exodus and disruption of New ...

“I know as a musician that traveling, being away from home, your memory and longing to return is really conducive to writing and making music,” guitarist C.C. Adcock told No Depression Magazine in ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WAFB) - Only six weeks after Hurricane Katrina wiped out most of New Orleans’ neighborhoods and scattered families and friends across the country. This memorial to the passing of ...

Many musicians also had to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, so there was a fear that the city's musical culture could be lost. Then two prominent jazz musicians got together and created a ...

Ryan Walchonski is in his Baltimore basement, which he’s converted into a home studio. It’s the sacred space where all of his songs begin. Behind him, throw blankets cover the walls to serve as ...

It’s funny how hip hop and politics sometimes come together. No sooner than Kanye West was on TV jawing about his disdain of President George W. Bush than the hip-hop community at large began taking ...

When Tarriona “Tank” Ball and her family evacuated New Orleans in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, she had no idea just how much her life was about to change. The lead vocalist and ...

Right now, Big Freedia is at the top of her career. In the past five years, the bounce musician has been sampled on Beyoncé’s banger, “Formation” (she’s the one saying, “I came to slay, bitch”), and ...

When Hurricane Katrina arrived in late August 2005, it was a warning to the entire world that climate change and its results, like coastal erosion, rising tides and more devastating superstorms and ...

People form a second line parade during an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) NEW ...

A few years back OffBeat ran the provocative story “Is New Orleans R&B Dead?” Michael Urban has provided his own examination of the question in his new book. Urban, a rigorously disciplined academic ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...