At this point in the long history of New Orleans music, it probably isn’t necessary to announce that your band isn’t “from” New Orleans as long as you wear your influences well. After all as Ernie ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misspelled Nathan Swift's last name. At the time of their farewell show in October 2015, Bad Cactus Brass Band were playing 150 shows a ...

Christiaan Mader and Jonny Campos, the creative core behind Lafayette pop-rock band Brass Bed, once saw themselves as dispassionate tunesmiths. They built clever songs with inventive melodies, chord ...

When fans think of the genre of classic rock, often big amps, buzzing guitars and even pyrotechnics come to mind (think: KISS). But there are some songs from the music that feature perhaps an unlikely ...

Let other U.S. cities pride themselves on their opera houses and symphony orchestras — Long Beach, Calif, has the nation’s finest municipal brass band. And the most expensive. Topping the entire ...