Upcoming: Stooges Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall

Upcoming: Medeski, Mali, Mercurio, & Moore @ le poisson rouge

Upcoming: Kermit Ruffins & BBQ Swingers @ Highline Ballroom

CEG & Nolafunk presents Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers Performing Two Sets Including A Special Louis Armstrong Birthday Tribute Set Thursday, August 8

Watch: Wild Tchoupitoulas (taken from "Always for Pleasure" documentary)

Watch: The Tin Men, New Orleans, Washboard, Sousaphone & Guitar Trio (via Times-Pic)

Watch as The Tin Men, a New Orleans trio featuring Washboard Chaz Leary on washboard and percussion, Matt Perrine on Sousaphone and Alex McMurray on resophonic guitar, plays at the dba nightclub on Frenchmen Street.

Watch: Hot 8 Brass Band perform "Ghost Town" for Guardian Sessions

Hot 8, New Orleans's finest purveyors of 'roof-raising, jazz-infused, funk and hip hop fuelled marching band music', invade the Guardian for a rousing rendition of the Specials' Ghost Town. Transposed to a post-Katrina New Orleans and infused with raw live energy, it features on their new album The Life And Times Of…

Upcoming: Papa Grows Funk @ Cutting Room (farewell show)

Upcoming: Galactic, Toots & Maytals @ Terminal 5