The Historic New Orleans Collection on Instagram: "Second line season is back in New Orleans! ☂️ The Young Men Olympian Jr. Social Aid & Pleasure Club, one of the oldest benevolent societies in the country, will hit the streets Uptown this Sunday. “Our organization was started in about 1882 by African Americans who were very influential in the community—doctors, musicians, lawyers. They decided to come together to help the community because, at that time, African Americans were not afforded the

Synth History on Instagram: "Wait for it. Yellow Magic Orchestra, excerpt from Hi-Tech Video Crime VHS tape, 1992. Yellow Magic Orchestra (Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto) were always ahead of their time. Pioneers in their use of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, and digital recording technology, they played a key role in the development of synthpop, J-pop, electro, and techno. YMO’s early work has been described as “proto-techno and by the 199