#New Orleans Jazz Music Festival April 2023

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Jensen Ackles | New Orleans Jazz Music Festival | April 29, 2023 [x]    

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2022: The Year in Green’s Party

This has been another great year on this blog of me sharing a thought or two about pop culture! This was a year I needed pop culture, entertainment and escapism more than ever. I got to do so many awesome things and I can’t believe that in early 2023 this blog turns 10! Here are some of the highlights of 2022:

Retweets and Social Media: There were numerous retweets and shares of my posts this year on social media including 2022 Collectibles Extravaganza sharing my coverage, Dana Carvey liked my tweet about Wayne’s World at Nice a Fest, David Spade liked my tweet about my interview with Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Sean Baker liked my tweet about Red Rocket being my Best 2021 Movie I Saw in 2022.

Interviews: I got to interview numerous people including Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz of Weird Al Yankovic’s band (plus a bonus portion of the interview), Nice a Fest founder Alex Pickert, musician Colleen Green, actor / director James Morosini, director Marq Evans, director April Wright, director Ryan White, musician Kay Hanley, and actors Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson.

Movie Reviews: I got to review A Hero, Sundown, I Want You Back, Studio 666, Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, Jurassic World Dominion,  The Beatles and India, George Michael Freedom Uncut, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, Thor: Love and Thunder, Clerks III, Sidney, Nothing Compares, Halloween Ends, Let There Be Drums!, Rebel Dread, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, A Christmas Story Christmas, She Said, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Bablyon.

Album Reviews: I got to review Eddie Vedder’s Earthling and the vinyl reissue of Ukelele Songs, John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies’ Firestarter soundtrack and Halloween Ends soundtrack, Florence + The Machine’s Dance Fever, The Rolling Stones’ Live at El Mocambo, The Clash’s Combat Rock / The People’s Hall special edition, Wilco’s Cruel Country, Beabadoobee’s Beatopia, Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Toast, Neil Young and Promise of the Real’s Noise & Flowers, R.E.M.’s Chronic Town 40th anniversary EP, Oasis’s Be Here Now 25th anniversary edition, Ringo Starr’s EP3, Djo’s Decide, Billy Idol’s The Cage, The Smithereens’ The Lost Album, The Pixies’ Doggerel, L7′s Bricks Are Heavy 30th anniversary reissue, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Cool It Down, Alvvays’ Blue Rev, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen, Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros’ Joe Strummer 002: The Mescalero Years box set, The Beatles’ Revolver Special Super Deluxe Edition, Foo Fighters’ The Essential Foo Fighters, the compilation album ‘Life Moves Pretty Fast’ The John Hughes Mixtapes, Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion I and II box set, Bruce Springsteen’s Only the Strong Survive, Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Live at the Fillmore, 1997.

Concert Reviews: The year began with a livestream concert review of Mike Garson’s A Bowie Celebration. In person concert reviews came back with reviews of Sheer Mag, Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, Paul McCartney, Death Cab for Cutie, Alvvays, and not an official review but I did a semi-review of Cheap Trick at Boston Calling.

DVD and Blu-ray Reviews: I got to review some DVD and blu-rays including The Beatles: Get Back, Neil Young and Promise of the Real: Noise & Flowers, and You Can’t Do That on Film.

Book Reviews: I got to cover numerous books released in 2022 including Olivia Harrison’s Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, Pattie Boyd’s My Life in Pictures, and Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Book.

Theater Reviews: This year I got to do my first official theater review, for On Beckett.

Music Festivals: I got to cover the 2022 Nice, a Fest festival.

Film Festivals and Film Events: I got to review a virtual film at Sundance Film Festival, my annual guide to the 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films, my coverage of the 2022 Independent Film Festival Boston, covered the 2022 Collectibles Extravaganza, and the 2022 IFFBoston Fall Focus.

...And the biggest postings and news of the year:

- 1/2/2022: Green’s Party turned 9!

- 1/28/2022: I wrote my tribute to Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who I have been lucky enough to cover since 2017.

- March 2022: I took a breather from the blog for a few weeks due to a death in the family. 

- 3/26/22: I posted my remembrance of Taylor Hawkins. 32 notes, my biggest post of 2022!

- 3/29/22: I posted my This Month In History column for March. 19 notes.

- 4/14/22: I wrote about returning to my first live concert in over 2 years to see LCD Soundsystem.

- 5/26/22: I posted my remembrance of Ray Liotta. 11 notes.

- 6/19/22: I re-shared my 2021 post about Sesame Street’s Juneteenth Song. 28 notes.

- 7/31/22: I posted my remembrance of Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols. 18 notes.

- 8/7/22: I shared my return to Kim’s Video at NYC’s Alamo Drafthouse. 

- 9/21/22: I shared the big news that my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66 has been added to the Permanent Collection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

- 10/12/22: I re-shared my 2018 post about This Day in 2018. 15 notes.

- 12/8/22: Tumblr provided their data of Green’s Party Year in Review up until December 8.

- 12/17/22: I re-shared my 2020 Top 5 Seinfeld Episodes During the Holiday Season list. 11 notes.

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BRICKSIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023

The annual Brickside Music Festival returns Saturday, April 8th at Duke Coffeehouse. Presented by Duke Coffeehouse and WXDU, Brickside will feature performances from local and international artists, including Laraaji, Kate NV, Yaya Bey, Special Interest, Ami Dang, The Veldt, and Sunburned Hand of the Man. Doors open at 2:30 pm and sets will run from mid-afternoon to midnight. There will be food trucks and art-making activities in addition to musical performances ranging from art pop to R&B and from new age to punk rock. Tickets are now for sale at tickets.duke.edu/Online/article/Brickside2023.

SCHEDULE

2:30pm DOORS OPEN 3:00pm Sunburned Hand of the Man 4:00pm The Veldt 5:00pm Special Interest 7:30pm DOORS REOPEN 8:00pm Ami Dang 9:00pm Laraaji 10:00pm Yaya Bey 11:00pm Kate NV

Laraaji https://laraajimusic.bandcamp.com/music Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. He has since released albums for a variety of labels, often recording himself at home and selling the results as cassettes during his street performances.

Kate NV https://katenv.bandcamp.com/ Kate NV is the multifaceted solo persona of Moscow-based artist Kate Shilonosova. On her latest LP from 2020, Room for the Moon, she makes avant-pop that defies the ordinary, combining Russian and Japanese influences with a new-wave sensibility and featherlight vocals.

Yaya Bey https://yaya-bey.com/ Yaya Bey is one of R&B’s most exciting storytellers. Using a combination oancestral forces and her own self-actualization, the singer-songwriter seamlessly navigates life’s hardships and joyful moments through music. Bey’s newest album, Remember Your North Star, captures this emotional rollercoaster with a fusion of soul, jazz, reggae, afrobeat, and hip-hop that feeds the soul.

Special Interest https://specialinterest.band/home Special Interest is a four-piece punk band from New Orleans, Louisiana combining elements of no wave, glam, and industrial. Front and center are Alli Logout’s commanding vocals and razor-sharp lyrics, which range from high camp satire to insightful political imperatives.

Ami Dang https://www.amidang.com/ Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound blends elements of North Indian classical, noise/ambient electronics, beat-driven psych, and experimental dance pop.

The Veldt https://theveldtmusic.bandcamp.com/ The Veldt is a soul-powered shoegaze band who arrived as misfits during the early '90s and reappeared as cult heroes in the mid-2010s. In 2022, the band released Entropy Is the Mainline to God, their first full-length in 24 years, and embarked on a five-week national tour.

Sunburned Hand of the Man https://sunburnedhandoftheman.bandcamp.com/album/that-which-is Sunburned Hand of the Man are a loose knit gang of musical artists from the wilds of Eastern Massachusetts. Over the years, their music has incorporated elements of rock, folk, drone, free jazz, and funk.

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The 2023 New Orleans Jazz Festival is coming — here’s who’s headlining

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Jensen Ackles | New Orleans Jazz Music Festival | April 29, 2023 [x]    

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