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Bassist Robert Trujillo on the meaning of life in Metallica

by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune

Tuesday December 02, 2008, 6:20 PM

Editor's note: Listen to Keith Spera's interview with Robert Trujillo of Metallica on NOLA Radio .

Los Angeles native Robert Trujillo tasted success as the bassist in punk-funk pioneers Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne's band. But in 2003, he successfully auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, a process chronicled in the warts-and-all documentary "Some Kind of Monster," and immediately found himself elevated to rock's stratosphere.

Trujillo and producer Rick Rubin played crucial roles in the creation of "Death Magnetic," Metallica's most vital album since the untitled "Black Album" in 1991. Trujillo called recently from a Metallica tour stop in Portland.

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Rocker James Hall returns to his former hometown for an acoustic and electric show

by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune

Tuesday December 02, 2008, 6:19 PM

Editor's note: Hear selected tracks from James Hall's Pleasure Club release Here comes the Trick.

James Hall can be intense. At times, too much so.

By the singer's own admission, over-thinking, over-analyzing and overbearing bedeviled his ill-fated 1990s tenure with Geffen Records -- a rare example of a local rocker getting a shot at the major leagues -- and contributed to the dissolution of his formidable post-Geffen band, Pleasure Club.

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Hear the latest releases on NOLA Radio

by Keith Marszalek, NOLA.com

Wednesday November 05, 2008, 9:47 AM

Are you craving a bit of "made in New Orleans' music to help you get through the day?

Tune into the sounds of The Radiators, Zigaboo Modeliste, Eric Lindell The Zydepunks and Grayson Capps today on NOLA Radio.

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Hear the latest releases on NOLA Radio

by Keith Marszalek, NOLA.com

Tuesday October 07, 2008, 9:22 AM

Louisiana musicians continue to crank out release after release and we've tapped into this resource.

Tune into NOLA Radio now and hear music, hot off the press, from the Other Plantes, the Iguanas, the Bad Off, Snuff Film Fest, Jimmy Robinson, Ballzack and Patrick Sylvest.

We also have new New Orleans Saints tribute songs from Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste and Tambourine Green.

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The Iguanas release If You Should Fall On Hard Times

by Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com

Friday October 03, 2008, 9:11 AM

Read Keith Spera's review of this release.

Check out the latest releases on NOLA Radio

by Keith Marszalek, NOLA.com

Thursday September 18, 2008, 3:23 PM

Louisiana musicians continue to crank out release after release and we've tapped into this resource.

Tune into NOLA Radio and hear music, hot off the press, from Irma Thomas, Henry Butler, Irvin Mayfield, the Treme Brass Band, Dr. Michael White, Bobby Lounge, Sonny Landreth and Jimmy Robinson.

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Interested in hearing your music on NOLA Radio? Drop us a line and we'll be in touch.

Hear Andrei Codrescu, John Boutte and others read new works of poetry inspired by Katrina

by Susan Larson, Book editor, The Times-Picayune

Wednesday August 27, 2008, 8:22 AM

JEALOUS WITNESS: POEMS
By Andrei Codrescu (Coffee House Press, $19.95)

Don't miss this fine collection, which comes accompanied by a CD of performances by the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, featuring special guests such as Harry Shearer and John Boutte. That spooky, mystical klezmer music is perfect for these poems, such acerbic and witty portraits of post-Katrina life. Codrescu is marvelously situated to appreciate loss of home, and oh, the ironies! In "Looting wal-mart," he recalls "how quickly they forgot how they didn't want a Wal-mart here, but now that they've looted wal-mart, we want the national guard here."

There are poems on other themes as well. In the section called "Some Poets," Codrescu honors his forebears -- Tolstoy, Tristan Tzara, Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg among them. Always witty and wise, Codrescu writes poetry that is authentic and wonderful. His voice is so familiar, yet he always has something new to say.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• What: Andrei Codrescu reads from "Jealous Witness."
• When and where: Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. at Faulkner House Books, 624 Pirate Alley, 504.524.2940; and Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. at Octavia Books (appearing in performance with the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars), 513 Octavia St., 504.899.7323.

Bobby Lounge releases Somethin's Wrong

by Keith Marszalek, NOLA.com

Friday August 22, 2008, 12:34 AM

Bobby enjoys writing songs about the south and about people with robust lifestyles. He chooses to avoid the limelight when not performing on stage. However, on stage, Lounge is a energetic entertainer in the tradition of Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis. His song writing style has been described as "Randy Newman with bite." Some songs are not appropriate for children.

Lounge was born in the deep south in 1950. He learned to play piano before his early teens and was influenced by southern gospel, blues, and barrelhouse piano players.