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Live From Petco

Music is apparently non-essential. So New Orleans musicians have no place to play. Some are doing live streaming from their homes, but others – like drummers and sax players – don’t have the kind of live streaming ability that, say, a singer-songwriter has. And then there’s this interesting factoid – Petco is regarded as essential…

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One Man’s Dystopia is Another Man’s Utopia

If you’re trapped at home hating watching the world come to an end, remember the wise words of Sergio from the band Rodo: One man’s dystopia is another man’s utopia. Sergio and Rodo (the person) play a couple of songs that illustrate this dichotomy, as well as pulling together another pair of polar concepts, ballads…

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Covideo

In our second Happy Hour by Zoom we manage to take advantage of not being able to hang out in a bar and instead talk to people all across the country in a new concept we’re calling Covideo from New Orleans. Yes, that’s in questionable taste, but after all it is Happy Hour. Mike Rubin…

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It’s New Orleans Coronavirus — Part 2

When we started making podcasts in New Orleans 10 years ago, we encountered a lot of skeptical questions, among them “What happens when you run out of good guests, in 6 weeks?” and “What’s a podcast?” One of the questions we didn’t hear was, “What happens if every bar and restaurant in the city shuts…

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New Orleans Corona Virus: Part 1

So today it’s New Orleans Corona Virus: Part 1 – the first day of the New Orleans shut down. Even the It’s New Orleans Happy Hour podcast is caught up in the global pandemic, though so far all that’s happened to us is we have to move off the stage of the Maple Leaf Bar…

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