New Orleans funk band Galactic has finalized the purchase of the famed Tipitina’s music club from its embattled owner, the band’s attorney told WWL-TV. Galactic’s attorney, Dino Gankendorff, confirmed ...

“Some people,” laughs Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio, “think we’re just a bunch of college kids playing old New Orleans music.” That might have been the case at one point. But the funk-based, mostly ...

In the perpetual twilight of their Uptown rehearsal studio’s control room, the members of Galactic anxiously await Irma Thomas’ verdict. Months earlier, Thomas, the venerated Soul Queen of New Orleans ...

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In funk music everything counts — every note, every beat, every silence, every breath. That’s why musicians who play funk are such masters of understatement. They don’t want to dilute the groove.

The tightknit New Orleans music scene just got a little tighter. One of the city’s top musical exports, the band Galactic, has purchased Tipitina’s, New Orleans’ most revered “juke joint” for ...

In need of a new home, the Golden Comanches found one closer than expected. For years the Mardi Gras Indian tribe set out on the morning of Fat Tuesday from the Sandpiper Lounge on Louisiana Avenue in ...