This hurts. After Katrina Joe worked as a case manager helping musicians and culture bearers get back to New Orleans. His love for the community was deep, and he was low-key hilarious.

“That man makes New Orleans music just by how he uses his voice as an instrument, and based off the slant rhymes of the accent.”

Buddy Bolden house update: the City just gave the owners 30 more days to submit plans for repairs without imposing any fines. A rep for the owners told the City they have the $ to fix it up and will get paperwork to them soon.

This mama duck and her baby ducklings walked right in through the front door of Peaches Records in New Orleans. An adorable family of little vinyl lovers. [📹 peachesrecords]

Things that can happen when you leave your car at a body shop in Chalmette: you get it back with raccoon tracks in the trunk

Just posted this oral history about Alvin "Shine" Robinson, with a ton of new info about his life and family. (Robinson cut "Something You Got" and "Down Home Girl," and collaborated with Dr. John and Aaron Neville. And somehow was Mr. Okra's nephew!) youtu.be/-y1mGLNS47M

Eli Ackerman Emily Woodruff Yes. Anyone can get a lead testing kit, including renters. Information is here on the S&WB website: swbno.org/DrinkingWater/…

Hey music writers and music lovers: the Pop Conference 2024 call is out! We're at USC next year first week of March. I'd love to see a bunch of independent scholars, critics, journos there this coming year.

I’m over at blu sky with the same handle, let me know if you’re there

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New Orleans STR black market expanding after months of legal limbo, no enforcement and no new permit applications. Ratio of advertised listings to permitted units now approaching 6-1. Six weeks ago it was 4.5-1. nola.com/news/new-orlea…

Habitat’s model was never a great fit for this community’s post-K housing needs. We had a few musicians facing foreclosure in 2008/9, just a few years after the musicians village was built. That’s after a bunch of secondary fundraising to qualify them for the mortgages.

Working hard in my Memphis office back in 1978. Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns

The march on the DNC the moment protesters tore down the first level of barricades near the United Center. Chicago PD met them in the street. Confrontation ended when a phalanx of police in riot gear came in a pincer from the other end of the street. Two arrests, I heard.

The season premiere of Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News is out today. It's about the moment when Fox really became itself, and became a bogeyman for the left: the 2000 election, when George W. Bush's cousin presided over the Fox decision desk slate.com/podcasts/slow-…