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Galactic

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Galactic is an American jam band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. [1]

103 relations: Acid jazz, Allen Toussaint, AllMusic, Anti- (record label), B.B. King, Big Freedia, Blackalicious, Blues, Boots Riley, Bounce music, Brass band, Capricorn Records, Carnivale Electricos, Chali 2na, Chevy Chase, Maryland, Conan (talk show), Coolin' Off, Corey Glover, Counting Crows, Crazyhorse Mongoose, Dendemann, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Electronic music, FishCenter Live, Fog City Records, From the Corner to the Block, Funk, Fusebox Funk, Garage A Trois, George Porter, Gift of Gab (rapper), Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, Gov't Mule, Hamburger, Hip hop music, Holocentrinae, Infamous 2, Irma Thomas, Jack Johnson (musician), Jam band, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jazz rap, Jazz-funk, JJ Grey & Mofro, John Boutté, Jurassic 5, Juvenile (rapper), Katey Red, Late for the Future, ..., Live (band), Louisiana, Loyola University New Orleans, Macy Gray, Mannie Fresh, Mascot, Mavis Staples, Mike Doughty, Monk Boudreaux, Morning 40 Federation, Mystikal, New Orleans, New Orleans rhythm and blues, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, OffBeat (music magazine), PolyGram, Professor Longhair, Rebirth Brass Band, Robbie Robertson, Rock music, Ruckus (album), Sanctuary Records, Seattle, Sissy Nobby, Skerik, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Soul Coughing, Stanton Moore, Steel Pulse, Sucker Punch Productions, TBS (U.S. TV channel), The Allman Brothers Band, The Coup, The Meters, The Neville Brothers, The Record Company, The Revivalists, The Roots, The Soul Rebels, The Wild Magnolias, Theryl DeClouet, Toots and the Maytals, Trombone Shorty, Tulane University, Vanguard Records, Vintage Reserve, Volcano, Volcano Entertainment, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, We Love 'Em Tonight: Live at Tipitina's, Widespread Panic, World music, Zebra moray. Expand index (53 more) »

Acid jazz

Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco.

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Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures."Richard Williams,, The Guardian, November 11, 2015.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anti- (record label)

Anti- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label to Epitaph.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Big Freedia

Freddie Ross (born on January 28, 1978) is an American musician best known by the stage name Big Freedia and for work in the New Orleans genre of hip hop called bounce music.

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Blackalicious

Blackalicious is an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Boots Riley

Raymond Lawrence Riley (born April 1, 1971), better known by his stage name Boots Riley, is an American rapper, producer, screenwriter and film director.

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Bounce music

Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Capricorn Records

Capricorn Records was an independent record label which was founded by Phil Walden, Alan Walden and Frank Fenter in 1969 in Macon, Georgia.

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Carnivale Electricos

Carnivale Electricos is the seventh studio album by the New Orleans-based jazz fusion/funk group Galactic.

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Chali 2na

Charles Stewart (born June 26, 1971), better known as Chali 2na, is an American rapper and hip hop artist, associated with the groups Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli.

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Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chevy Chase is the name of both a town and an unincorporated census-designated place (Chevy Chase (CDP), Maryland) that straddle the northwest border of Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Conan (talk show)

Conan is a late-night talk show airing each Monday through Thursday at 11:00 p.m. eastern time on TBS in the United States.

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Coolin' Off

Coolin' Off is the first studio album by the jazz funk band Galactic.

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Corey Glover

Corey Glover (born November 6, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist and actor.

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Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991.

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Crazyhorse Mongoose

Crazyhorse Mongoose is the second studio album by the New Orleans, LA based band Galactic.

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Dendemann

Daniel Ebel, better known as Dendemann (born 27 June 1974 in Wickede) is a German rapper from Hamburg (since 1996, formerly Menden).

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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FishCenter Live

FishCenter Live (also shortened to FishCenter or FC Live or just FCL) is an American talk show hosted by Dave Bonawits, Andrew Choe, Matt Harrigan, and Max Simonet.

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Fog City Records

Fog City Records is an independent record label based in San Francisco.

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From the Corner to the Block

From the Corner to the Block is the fifth studio album by the New Orleans-based jazz fusion/funk group Galactic.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Fusebox Funk

Fusebox Funk is a powerhouse 6 piece Funk/Hip Hop phenomenon! Hailing from Jacksonville FL, Fusebox Funk has thrilled tens of thousands of fans at clubs and festivals across the country since their debut in 2001.

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Garage A Trois

Garage A Trois (a.k.a. GAT) is a quartet including drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, vibraphone and percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento.

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George Porter

George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham PCS HRSE LLD (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.

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Gift of Gab (rapper)

Timothy Parker, better known by his stage name Gift of Gab, is an American rapper best known for performing in the Bay Area hip hop duo Blackalicious along with DJ Chief Xcel.

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Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino is a 2007 tribute album by various artists to Fats Domino, issued by Vanguard Records.

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Gov't Mule

Gov't Mule (pronounced Government Mule) is an American southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 as a side project of The Allman Brothers Band by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody.

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Hamburger

A hamburger, beefburger or burger is a sandwich consisting of one or more cooked patties of ground meat, usually beef, placed inside a sliced bread roll or bun.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Holocentrinae

Holocentrinae is a subfamily of Holocentridae containing 40 recognized species and one proposed species.

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Infamous 2

Infamous 2 (stylized as inFAMOUS 2) is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 video game console.

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Irma Thomas

Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer from New Orleans.

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Jack Johnson (musician)

Jack Hody Johnson (born May 18, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, documentary filmmaker and former professional surfer.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jazz rap

Jazz rap is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds and an early prevalence of analog synthesizers.

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JJ Grey & Mofro

JJ Grey & Mofro (formerly Mofro) is an American Southern soul rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.

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John Boutté

John Boutté (born November 3, 1958) is an American jazz singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana, who has been active since the mid-1990s.

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Jurassic 5

Jurassic 5 is an American alternative hip hop group formed in 1993 by members of two previous groups (Rebels of Rhythm and Unity Committee): rappers Charles Stewart (Chali 2na), Dante Givens (Akil), Courtenay Henderson (Soup aka Zaakir), Marc Stuart (Marc 7); and disc jockeys Mark Potsic (DJ Nu-Mark) and Lucas Macfadden (Cut Chemist).

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Juvenile (rapper)

Terius Gray (born March 25, 1975), better known by his stage name Juvenile, is an American rapper and actor who was a member of the former hip hop group the Hot Boys.

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Katey Red

Katey Red (born March 17, 1983) is a bounce artist and M.C. from New Orleans.

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Late for the Future

Late for the Future is the third studio album by the New Orleans, LA based band Galactic.

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Live (band)

Live (often typeset as LĪVE or +LĪVE+) is an American rock band from York, Pennsylvania, consisting of Ed Kowalczyk (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Chad Taylor (lead guitar, backing vocals), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass), and Chad Gracey (drums).

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational, Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Macy Gray

Macy Gray (born Natalie Renée McIntyre; September 6, 1967) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actress.

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Mannie Fresh

Byron Otto Thomas (born March 20, 1969), better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh is an American rapper, record producer and DJ who is best known for his work with Cash Money Records from 1993 to 2005 and one half of the hip hop duo Big Tymers.

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Mascot

A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Mike Doughty

Michael Ross Doughty (born June 10, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Monk Boudreaux

Monk Boudreaux (born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux; 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe.

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Morning 40 Federation

Morning 40 Federation is a jazz, funk and rock band from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

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Mystikal

Michael Lawrence Tyler (born September 22, 1970), known professionally as Mystikal, is an American rapper and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New Orleans rhythm and blues

New Orleans Rhythm and Blues is a style of R&B that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana and was most popular between the years of 1948-1955, serving as a precursor to Rock & Roll and strongly influencing Ska.

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New Times Broward-Palm Beach

New Times Broward-Palm Beach is an alternative weekly newspaper; it is part of the Voice Media Group chain.

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OffBeat (music magazine)

OffBeat is a monthly music magazine in New Orleans, Louisiana, first published in 1987.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Professor Longhair

Henry Byrd redirects here.

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Rebirth Brass Band

The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band.

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Robbie Robertson

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, OC (born July 5, 1943), is a Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, and author.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Ruckus (album)

Ruckus is the fourth studio album by the New Orleans, LA based band Galactic.

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Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sissy Nobby

Terrelle Gallo (known by his stage name, Sissy Nobby) is an American bounce artist from New Orleans, known for his hit songs, "Josephine Beat" (which samples Big Freedia's "Gin In My System") and "Gitty Up".

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Skerik

Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment (abbreviated as SIE and formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Network Entertainment International) is a multinational video game and digital entertainment company and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products and Services Group of Sony Corporation.

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Soul Coughing

Soul Coughing was an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/guitarist Mike Doughty (also known as M. Doughty), keyboardist/sampler Mark Degli Antoni, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and drummer Yuval Gabay.

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Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore (born July 9, 1972) is an American funk, jazz and rock drummer reared in Metairie in Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band from the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, which has a large number of Afro-Caribbean, Indian and other Asian migrants.

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Sucker Punch Productions

Sucker Punch Productions is an American first-party video game developer founded in 1997 and based in Bellevue, Washington.

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TBS (U.S. TV channel)

TBS is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Coup

The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California.

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The Meters

The Meters are an American funk band formed in 1965 by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar), and Art Neville (keyboards) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers is an American R&B/soul/funk group, formed in 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Record Company

The Record Company is an American power trio rock band formed in Los Angeles.

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The Revivalists

The Revivalists are an American rock band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2007.

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The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The Soul Rebels

The Soul Rebels (also Soul Rebels Brass Band, Soul Rebels or The Rebels) are an eight-piece New Orleans based brass ensemble that incorporate elements of soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop music within a contemporary brass band framework.

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The Wild Magnolias

The Wild Magnolias are a Mardi Gras Indian tribe who also record and play as a funk musical act from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Theryl DeClouet

Theryl DeClouet (born September 17, 1951, in Hollygrove, New Orleans, Louisiana), also known as House Man, is a soul/R&B singer, best known as the former lead vocalist for the musical group Galactic.

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Toots and the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups.

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Trombone Shorty

Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is an American musician, producer, actor and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City.

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Vintage Reserve

Vintage Reserve is a compilation album by the New Orleans, LA based band Galactic.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Volcano Entertainment

Volcano Entertainment (sometimes referred to as Volcano Records) is an American all-round music record label founded in 1996 which released albums by Tool, 311, Size 14, Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic (the latter two were former Scotti Bros. Records artists and the only artists retained from the label).

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Walter "Wolfman" Washington

Walter "Wolfman" Washington (born December 21, 1943) is an American singer and guitarist, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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We Love 'Em Tonight: Live at Tipitina's

We Love 'Em Tonight: Live at Tipitina's is a live album by the New Orleans, LA based band Galactic.

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Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Zebra moray

The zebra moray, Gymnomuraena zebra, is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic

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