Alison Fensterstock
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Over a career stretching back to the 1950s, Malcolm John Rebennack came to be a living symbol of the city of New Orleans and its bottomless musical character.
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Big Freedia has always repped New Orleans, becoming famous by insisting on being her sui generis self. How could you see someone who loves herself so much and not follow her to the dance floor?
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The Southern soul survivor has made an album about strength: a holistic shot in the arm to help you find the fortitude to fight.
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Low Cut Connie still makes full-bodied, red-blooded rock and roll, but offers a bit more nuance to its wild boogie.
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Across several decades (and despite widespread sexism) women workers, supporters and associates shaped the story of America's most weird, colorful, sui generis rock and roll band.
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The Philly rockers return one year later with Dirty Pictures (Part 2), a collection of songs with more emotional complexity, but still plenty of boogie.
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In the wake of criminal charges against the trumpeter and bandleader, a city laments that a visible face of recovery for his battered and beaten hometown might also have been bilking it.
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Thomas' 1964 album is not the usual entry point into her work for newer fans — but it's the album that introduced the local hitmaker to the world at large.
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Hear essential songs by the late architect of rock and roll, plus recordings by artists who influenced him, and those who covered and took inspiration from him.
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The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.