New Orleans funk band Galactic has finalized the purchase of the famed Tipitina’s music club from its embattled owner, the band’s attorney told WWL-TV. Galactic’s attorney, Dino Gankendorff, confirmed ...

In the early-to-mid-‘90s, guitarist Jeff Raines and bassist Robert Mercurio, childhood friends from outside Washington, DC, were attending different schools in New Orleans and creating what would ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — When the New Orleans funk collective Galactic goes on tour, they face only one limitation: a repertoire featuring a long list of irreplaceable players. Galactic has spent the last ...

Last month at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Galactic did its annual carnival duty for the band’s native city, playing through the night until sunrise on Fat Tuesday morning at Tipitina’s. But these funk ...

Vanishing Twin emerged in the mid 2010s as one of the most interesting groups working in the hauntological wake of Broadcast, albeit with stronger inclinations for funk and dub than Trish Keenan, ...

“Audience With the Queen,” the noteworthy new album by Irma Thomas and Galactic, came about after two separate conversations collided. Over their 30-year-career, New Orleans funk band Galactic has ...

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Galactic are back. The contemporary purveyors of New Orleans funk are back. With a new record, and a new tour date here in Portsmouth. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, they’ll hit The Music Hall in support of ...

Tipitina’s employees met Monday for the first time with their new bosses — bosses they already knew in a different context: as musicians. The five members of the local funk band Galactic, who have ...

Galactic has invited numerous guest musicians from New Orleans to perform on stage with them, including Cyril Neville of The Neville Brothers, the Soul Rebels Brass Band, B.B. King, Counting Crows and ...