Features
DRUM! Q&A With Johnny Vidacovich
Often cited as an influence, Johnny Vidacovich spans generations of New Orleans drummers, having worked with Professor Longhair and Willy DeVille.
Features
Easy Beat: New Orleans Drummers Roundtable
Hometown heroes Herlin Riley, Johnny Vidacovich, Russell Batiste, and Stanton Moore discuss the glories and peculiarities of New Orleans drumming.
Features
A Weekend In Austin With Stanton Moore
As the brutal July sun melts into a rippling orange puddle over West Texas, it leaves its imprint behind: Sopping humidity, still pregnant with the throbbing summer heat, presses down upon the darkened streets of Austin, doing strange things to the city. Down along the river the expectant summer crowd gathered around the Congress Avenue Bridge to watch the nightly exodus of the world’s largest urban bat colony is frustrated by the creatures’ refusal to leave the bridge’s cool recesses. A few blocks north on 6th Street, where downtown is just beginning to awaken, the opposite is happening. Thousands of souls, thirsty for that first sweet taste of weekend relief, swarm the streets, drawn like insects to the neon.
