HEY!! so i was in my ISQM class and he mentioned pandora! so i just wanted to drop you all a line say i miss ya, keep up the great work..and woo hoo go pandora!!!!!!!!!!!!

amie
eitienne's niece

Funk is a noun, not a verb. It's conceivable that the band you saw HAVE the funk, but they do not funk.

I beg to differ. The band All That has a song entitled "Funk With Me", so some practitioners of the art form clearly view funk as a verb as well as a noun.

Great site. Only suggestion is that it would be nice to be able to fast forward through a song to quickly see if you like it all. When is Apple going to buy you?

Hi!

This is just a great site.
Fantastic idea, and brilliant implementation.

The only thing that is annoying is: when I add a song to my favourites, the page with all of them pops up. It would be nice to add the song silently.

Thanks for the site!

what a freakin rad thing you are doing.
i am a musician on tour, and i keep a blog at my website of the random things, people, and music i find.
safe travels
raina

Do you need help searching for music? Put me on the road!! Talk about a dream job. And whatever happens, don't sell out to anyone like Apple!

hay i missed you in Louisiana by 3 days or so.
Chalmette, Louisiana (april 7th)

Hey I've been to the Maple Leaf.. Saw Rebirth Brass Band! Good times! AND TIPITINA's! I love Tips! Lived down the street and interned at Tip's! Miss NOLA!

great channel you have! I got there and couldn't believe it. But it works indeed!
So I went to the blog and saw that you have been to Biloxi and that you even put some pictures on the blog. I remember the road, cause whe have used it several times, going to our friends in Lake Charles.
Keep up your good work!

Thanks for the shout out Tim! Fun blog...

Ha! I opened for Papa Grows Funk once. That brought a smile to my face to see their name. Their drummer is insanely good. He funks. Pandora ROCKS!

Papa Grows Funk is a blast live - esp at the Maple Leaf. Unfortunately Pandora doesn't know them. I still dig pandora though. It would be great if it was integrated with more stand alone hardware solutions or even XBMC.

hy!
Iam french and I live actually in
New-Orleans! I discovered Pandora last week (on "esquire"'s article) and I love it, it's tha best website I'd never find, such a good idea!
Thank you so much! I send it to all my friends, and they all joined pandora's family!
Tahnk you, thank you, thank you!!

My coworker just turned me on to the site yesterday and I just missed you (we work on Rebuilding New Orleans!!!)

Fantastic site. Thank you guys for the availability and ease of use.

Just got turned on to Pandora recently...and in another random coincidence, though I'm in CA...I've heard Papa Grows Funk in N.O.
A California band to check out for funk...
www.tubbyfunk.com for tour schedule etc.

Glad you loved what you experienced in my hometown. Come back again and keep up the good work with your service. Thanks!

Papa Grows Funk!

The come to Houston now and again. I've seen 'em at the Continental Club several times. Always an amazing show.

A style of music I don't listen to at home. Only live.

that's great that you came to new orleans! i would love to hear more brass bands and new orleans funk (old and new) on pandora. thanks!!!

I LOVE THIS RADIO STATION. IF YOU KEEP PLAYING ILL KEEP LISTENING

Great site - Thanks for being out there.

If funk is your passion, you've got to check out New Orleans own - Mem Shannon. One mean guitar player.

www.memshannon.com

sweet

Is that Phil Jupitus playing keyboards?

(New to Pandora, very impressed!)

They no longer play together, but try to find some CDs, created by a local band called "Benny Grunch & the Bunch". They were a novelty band, that played locally for about 20-25 years. They sang songs about N.O. They broke up, after hurricane Katrina hit. A couple of their famous songs were:

The 12 Yats of Christmas
There Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day

WWL-TV Channel 4, out of New Orleans, play the music video to "The 12 Yats of Christmas" twice a year, during the Christmas season.

The break-up of this band was one of the most heartbreaking current events to befall N.O., after Katrina (at least in my opinion). It would be nice to have them back, in some form anyway.

Thanks.

It is great to hear you went to N.O. I miss the city. Haven't you gone to Frenchman Street? That is the place - I mean, street - you go if you want to hear good jazz. Snug Harbor, DBA, Spotted Cat etc...
There a bunch of great jazz bands you should check it out....Ex: Davy Mooney Trio, The Vipers, Hot Club of New Orleans, Astral Project...all great!!!!!

sorry i missed you coming to my hometown, i just found out about you guys a few days ago, and i think you are awesome.

Pandora is badass, and the Music Genome Project is genius. i understand that they need to be further refined, but looking at wikipedia with their user based input, i'm sure you guys have struck gold.

as far as music in new orleans, jazz fest is goin on right now, but don't pay tourist prices for local bands. next time you come down, please check out a brass band or three. they put on a great live show. so does the Morning 40 Federation

Pandora is really a very good idea and reality.I just regret that I can't find one of my favoutit, ie Mr. KID ORY AND HIS CREOLE JAZZ BAND which FOR ME is one of the famous jazz band ( New Orleans DIXYLAND type ) as GOOD as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet,Duke Elington , Jango Reihnard or the Rosenberg Trio etc...
COULD YOU PLEASE ADD THIS ARTIST TO YOUR FAMOUS GENOME ?????

If you guys liked Papa Grows Funk, check out Middle Rhythm session. THey played a big party in April together in Florida. If the road trip makes it there, check them out.
GREAT!
www.middlerhythmsession.com

GERMANY speaking.

This page is awesome. Keep the company going guys!!!

Hey I recently just found pandora and I love it I put my music on at work and jam all day!! By the way
that must have not been your first time eating crawfish because most people that come here are scared of them and think that us cajuns are nasty for eating them critters!! Thanks for getting the site together i love it!!

Hey! Love the site, but you're missing one thing. You guys don't have the best band EVAAAR, Meriwether! They're a Louisiana band and they ROCK! Check them out and add them to the site please!!

Great job guys, just got connected to your line, however the "skips" got to go!!!!

Enjoying the sounds!!! Thanks

Shreveport, Louisiana (Where there's never any jazz!!!...but there is now thanks to you Guys)

This is a super site; i've heard some great bands i'd never heard before.
Re. great funk: Jon Cleary is amazing. I think he's currently playing with Bonnie Raitt, but is a regular in the New Orleans' clubs.
The music scene is definitely alive here. On Frenchmen Street one can hear klezmer, jazz, and even classical in a single block!
Keep up the good work and hope you come back to Nola soon.

What?? I just looked for Clifton Chenier and he's not in your database!! For shame!!! Please correct his oversight ASAP.

Thanks,

Pestomama

Love Pandora otherwise.

This is the greasy wheel again. I can't seem to find any zudeco music on Pandora. What's with that? Please add it to your data base.

Pestomama

Great site, but why no BeauSoleil? Check out "La Danse de la Vie". When will you be adding cajun & zydeco?

Love the music, and thanks for coming to New Orleans. I have lived here since birth, and we need more people to visit and return to their home to tell friends that there is devistation, but we are working on recovering, and the places tourists want to visit are up and running.

Hay man,
Next time you are in New Orleans you have to check out a Morning 40 Federation show at One Eyed Jack. It's the place to see them. Or just check out their new album.
Sara

I've been having some fun creating radio stations based on the play list for each week's "American Routes" radio show (Nick Spitzer, et. al). Makes for great listening during the rest of the week.

This web-site is absolutely fantastic, keep up the great work, I'm loving it!

check out the Sound of New Orleans website,
run by Gary Edwards. Creole, NO Brass Jazz,
Cajun roots music..

http://soundofneworleans.com/

PANDORA is fantastic !
I'm an Orleanian who left NOLA to attend Burning Man a week before the flood .... the irony of being in the most arid place in N. America while my home took 7 feet of water was not lost on me ... since then I took a job in Portsmouth, VA at an opera-scene-design-and-build company ( all those Mardi Gras developement skills ARE useful outside the Crescent ! )
I keep going back to NOLA every chance I get because I miss the MUSIC ! NO PLACE LIKE IT ... ANYWHERE ! ... so Pandora, I recommend coming BACK TO NOLA ... and adding more-more-more of our musicians :
such as :

JON CLEARY
ERIC LINDELL
TOMMY MALONE

I've started laughing now because anyone who knows NOLA knows that such a list would be infinite ... LOVE YOUR SITE --- DON'T GO THE WAY OF OTHER "RADIO" ---

Creating "regional" playlists would be interesting ... only artists from particular regions regardless of their genre .....

PEACE and GODD MUSIC !!!!

hey yaw whats up i miss yaw down there its pretty cold up here i love pandora

There seems to be a dearth of radio stations that play Southern Gospel Music in the New Orleans listening area. Am I right? I can't find any stations. Can this be rectified? Most people here do not even know who Bill Gaither is! Help!

There are a lot of New Orleans bands that you should definetly give a listen.

Might I suggest the following:
Liquidrone
The Morning 40 Federation
Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes
Lump
Consortium of Genius
Black Mountain
Inbred Bipeds
Pitts vs. Preps
Catch Velvet
New Orleans Jazz Vipers
Egg Yolk Jubilee

If you ever want to come to my neck of the woods (literally!).. I would love to host you.. The big town of Folsom, LA , north of New Orleans about 45 miles!! Love your site!!

Tim, outstanding job! Kudos to you and your VERY fortunate staff! This is a dreamjob!!! nola's is the scene for electrified funk, no dought! I'm from Baton Rouge and while attending LSU, my friends and I would go to Tip's ie., Tippitina'a and jimmy's. The Radiators, where frequent..An extremely tight sound while still able to keep the freeflowing, headshaking GROOVE! Ed's a beast with it!!! almost a blend of Little feat/Dr. john! Well Today the band following these mighty footsteps is Widespread Panic! Hey, Deadhead's have have something to do!

You need to come down to Lafayette LA the last weekend of April for Festival International.

www.festivalinternational.com

I live in Huntsville, Texas now, but I'm Originally from southwest Louisiana and would like to know if you've ever ventured in cajun music. Its pretty hard to find that kind of music
where I live. Some of the cajun artist are good freinds of mine like Jimmie Newman. Sammy Kershaw is from my home town in Kaplan, La. Love
the music you play. I've only discovered Pandora recently. Keep up the good work. Thanks

I just joined this Pandora and you really need to come back and get with the cajun side of louisiana, the "swamp pop" music is great here and i never hear it nationally. We have Aaron Foret, Wayne Foret, Wayne toups, Don Rich, Jake and the nifty fifties, these are great bands from louisiana. I had some friends come in from out of town and they fell in love with this music. I send them cd's every chance i get.