Other dates

• You're Not Alone by Mainstream isn't so bad...is it?

  "“New Orleans is on of the last places in America where music is truly a fundamental part of everyday life. People get together on the weekends and parade through the streets just playing songs; 12-year-old-kids learn funk on the tuba; everyone dances. Life elsewhere in the world simply isn’t as..."

• Random Reviews Of 2007 Releases + Cool Boogaloo by Home of the Groove

  "If you've been hanging around for a while, you know that very occasionally I do some reviews of more recent HOTG releases. Way back, I did an early review of the second Bonerama CD and the release party, too. Then there was my review of the Dirty Dozen's What's Goin'..."

• Mardi Gras starter kit by SoundRoots Global Culture

  "This week's show is something of a Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Carnival starter kit -- particularly useful if you happen to live far away from Rio or New Orleans or other places where the holiday is celebrated with great gusto. Many USA residents will be more focused on..."

• Lame Bryant Groundhog Day vs Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday by Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations

  "So I gotta wonder...Did anyone in Tinley Park Ill, regret not going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, instead of getting pinned down in the crossfire at the plus size ????????? Police investigate the scene of the shooting that killed 4 iat a Lane Bryant store at the Brookside shopping..."

• Here Come Da Indians! by Home of the Groove

  "RULERS ON THE HOLIDAY "Meet De Boys On The Battlefront" (George Landry)The Wild Tchoupitoulas, from Wild Tchoupitoulas, Antilles, 1976LISTENThe Wild Magnolias blazed the trail as the first Mardi Gras Indians to popularize their once secretive culture by merging its primal vocal and percussion based music with the hip, contemporary funk..."