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 ...

‘Y’all doin alright out there?’ asked the Houseman. ”Cause we havin’ a funky ball up here!’ And that may be the best, perhaps the only way to describe the sonic explosion of Galactic, a fully engaging ...

“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 ...

During Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, the six-piece funk outfit Galactic always goes home for a standing gig at a favorite French Quarter club. At least it has for the past eight or nine years, ...

About a third of the way into My Morning Jacket’s headlining show on the Gentilly Stage Sunday, frontman Jim James dove into a story about his trip into the city. He was getting off a plane Saturday ...