Hangout Fest 2011 Delivers on the Beach: Early Impressions From Gulf Shores
GULF SHORES, Ala. — As the second annual Hangout Music Festival wound down its final day on the white sand of Gulf Shores, one verdict was already clear among the…
Mobile’s El Cantador Releases ‘Fools For Light’ After Year of Quiet Work
Mobile indie rockers El Cantador have put their new record, Fools For Light, out into the world — closing a quiet stretch the band says made the music better. The…
Mobile Comedian William Masters Marks BP Oil Spill Anniversary With Satirical Rap Single
A Mobile-based comedian found a creative way to mark the first anniversary of the nation’s worst offshore oil disaster, releasing a satirical rap single that channeled the frustration and dark…
New Orleans Royalty at the Saenger: Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas Bring Six Decades of Soul to Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. — Few bills could match the pedigree that landed at Mobile’s Saenger Theater on Saturday, April 2, 2011, when New Orleans piano legend Allen Toussaint shared the stage…
92Zew Taps Underhill Family Orchestra for Second Tuesday at The BlueGill
Mobile rock radio station 92Zew has booked one of the city’s most talked-about homegrown acts, the Underhill Family Orchestra, for its Second Tuesday Concert Series at The BlueGill, with the…
Mobile Bands Rally at Boondocks for Sims/Andrews Benefit
The Mobile music community came together on Sunday, March 20, 2011, for a benefit at Boondocks organized to help the families of Selma Sims and her daughter Kathy Andrews, who…
Franklin ‘Baby’ Seals: The Mobile-Born Pianist Who Helped Create the Blues
Long before the blues became one of America’s most recognized musical traditions, a pianist from Mobile, Alabama, was helping to define the genre in its earliest days. H. Franklin “Baby”…
Final Qualifying Round Tonight in Serda’s Songwriters Competition
The second year of Serda’s Songwriters Competition wraps up its qualifying rounds tonight at Serda’s Coffee Company, 3 Royal Street in downtown Mobile. Over the first three Wednesdays of November,…
Mobile Musicians Band Together for Beatles Benefit Honoring Janet Pope at Alabama Music Box
Downtown Mobile’s Alabama Music Box turned into an all-Beatles songbook on October 7, 2010, as local musicians gathered for a benefit show supporting Janet Pope, a local mother battling cancer.…
New Orleans Funk Legend George Porter Jr. Brought the Runnin Pardners to Moe’s in Daphne
On Friday, July 30, 2010, one of the founding fathers of funk brought his band to the Eastern Shore when George Porter Jr. and the Runnin Pardners played Moe’s Original…