Mirroring many other parts of New Orleans in 2025, the city’s music community this year had a lot to celebrate, faced new challenges, mourned losses and used art in acts of defiance and resilience.

New Orleans is a city where music is not just entertainment; it is the heartbeat of daily life. From the syncopated grooves of jazz to the driving pulse of second-line parades, rhythms here tell ...

The Big 4 of New Orleans Rock provide a deft representation of the city’s famous gumbo-pot diversity. There’s a sardonic piano-playing storyteller, a metal pioneer, a mystic swamp-rock legend and a ...

Kermit Ruffins has spent decades carrying the sound of New Orleans through brass bands, neighborhood shows, and jazz ...

As one of the country’s historically important port cities, New Orleans has always been defined by its cross-cultural mindset – and that certainly included its music. The city played a central role in ...