“Some people,” laughs Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio, “think we’re just a bunch of college kids playing old New Orleans music.” That might have been the case at one point. But the funk-based, mostly ...

In the perpetual twilight of their Uptown rehearsal studio’s control room, the members of Galactic anxiously await Irma Thomas’ verdict. Months earlier, Thomas, the venerated Soul Queen of New Orleans ...

“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 ...

The tightknit New Orleans music scene just got a little tighter. One of the city’s top musical exports, the band Galactic, has purchased Tipitina’s, New Orleans’ most revered “juke joint” for ...

New Orleans funk band Galactic laid out an inspired set to a packed house Sunday night at The Vogue. The current touring lineup of Galactic features former Living Color vocalist Corey Glover and ...