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Entries for March, 2016

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Big Freedia Pleads Guilty to Section 8 Fraud

Only a few weeks after Big Freedia resolved her battle with Hattiesburg over a wrongly cancelled performance, which is now back on, the New Orleans hip-hop artist has become embroiled in a battle of a different kind. On Wednesday, March 16, Freedia pleaded guilty to the theft of about $35,000 ...

Motion City Soundtrack Is No More

After 18 years in the international alternative music scene, Motion City Soundtrack has announced that the band will enter an indefinite hiatus following its upcoming 29-date United States tour. The tour will begin May 5 in Portland and end June 24 in Minneapolis, the city where vocalist Justin Pierre and ...

Just In: Big Freedia to perform at Martin's in Jackson on March 24

Fresh off a controversy in Hattiesburg, in which the owner of the Dollar Box Showroom said he was pressured to cancel her show, Big Freedia is returning to Mississippi with a vengeance. In what the New Orleans bounce artist is calling "Twerkloose" performances, her manager Reid Martin told the JFP ...

CeeLo Brought a Zu

Amidst the general political chaos of the presidential primaries and visits from Bill Clinton and Donald "Drumpf" Trump, Grammy Award winner CeeLo Green also made a stop in the city of Jackson. As is usually the case with the eccentric singer and songwriter, he didn't come alone. Wherever Green pops ...