Music

JazzFest Moment: Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens

I am going through serious withdrawal. JazzFest is just weeks away. Absent some confluence of miracles, I won’t be there for the second year in a row. After a thirty five year run. The realities of being firmly into my octogenarianism are manifest. As much as it pains, prudence must prevail. But it’s ever on […]

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Rock & Roll Rewind: Musical Reconsiderations

On occasion the worth of a yarn is in the telling. Not whether there’s a lesson or a moral, if any. It’s can be the journey more than the destination, if any. Or so I convince myself with today’s adventure. Not sure exactly where we might arrive — though I’ve a glimmer — but do […]

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Louder Than Life 2025 brings big names and a bigger venue

By Noah Jennings The annual Louisville rock and heavy metal music festival, Louder Than Life, is kicking off this week. This four-day-long event will start on Thursday, Sept. 18 and end on  Sunday, Sept. 21. It takes place at the Kentucky Exposition Center, located at 937 Phillips Lane.  This year, Louder Than Life will feature

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“Thunder Road”: Fifty Years On

Screen door slams/ Mary’s dress sways/ Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays It is the opening line of the opening tune of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 masterwork of an album, “Born To Run.” A collection of eight short stories no less relevant and seminal than Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” or Joyce’s […]

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Edibles & Potables: Why do eateries turn up the volume?

We dropped into a local restaurant for lunch just before noon on a Monday in July and elected to sit at the bar. The hip hop-influenced contemporary pop music was so loud that I could barely hear the bartender, so we moved outside, where it was far too hot, but the traffic at an urban […]

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The beat of Cardinals basketball: Inside the U of L pep band

by Sydney Ball   During U of L athletic events, there is a great amount of energy that emerges from the crowd and student section. This energy is undoubtedly enhanced by the presence of the U of L Cardinal Pep Band The pep band performs at all home basketball and volleyball games, but may also

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Snow Day R&R: Ghost Riders in the Sky

One song. Two moments. One that actually happened and was pretty special. The other a dream denied. The song: Ghost Riders in the Sky. It’s just one of those tunes that’s lingered around, maleable, adaptable, written by Stan Jones in the late 1940s. It’s been dubbed the Greatest Western Song Ever. But that is far […]

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The Dylan Flick

A new film has just dropped, another attempt to pin down the unpindownable. It’s about Bob Dylan. The early years. It’s called “A Complete Unknown” and  stars Timothée Chalamet, who it is said spent a half decade learning how to mime the Unwashed Phenomenon’s affectations, speak and sing with the Original Vagabond’s inflections. Whatever. This […]

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