New Orleans music again gained national recognition this week when Rebirth Brass Band garnered a Grammy nod. Y'know, gramaphones and all. But it seems we're also making it in the bawdy, long-winded world of the Interweb. The Onion's A/V Club chose two of the Crescent City's own musical mainstays for their year end list of best...band names. On top of their tunery, The Local Skank and Why are We Building Such a Big Ship? apparently have a way with words.

By Ary Warnaar

Hola Nola- and hola video game instrumentors Anamanaguchi. Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Ary Warnaar, and Luke Silas make ‘chiptune punk’, music created from outdated technological consoles, from computers to gameboys- and it’s as raw as digital gets. 

April 26, the first demonstration of the Smallpox vaccine (1721), the opening exhibition of Madame Tussaud’s waxwork opens in London (1928), Shostakovich completes his 4th symphony (1936), Arnold Schwarzenegger weds Maria Shriver (1986), the final episode for both ‘Who’s The Boss’ and ‘Growing Pains’ aired their final episode on ABC (1992), the births of Stevie Nicks (1948), Carol Burnett (1933), and Ludwig Wittenstein (1989), and the deaths of John Wilkes Booth (1865), Lucille Ball (1989), and Count Basie (1984). In other news: