The Meters news

George Porter Jr. & Dumpstaphunk: Bass great Porter is a co-founder of The Meters, the legendary New Orleans funk band that was formed in 1965. Equally inspired by Mardi Gras street chants ...

The Phunk Sessions will gather the baddest funk players in the land in Denver after Phish plays Dick's on Sunday, September 4th.

While The Meters were creating some of the finest funk music ever recorded in the early ’70s, the band’s guitarist and primary songwriter Leo Nocentelli was working on a solo project that ...

Their three-night July stand will further exemplify the unit’s groove-heavy jams with the addition of The Meters’ giant. In light of the rescheduled dates, folks interested in attending one or ...

“Another Side”, the first-ever solo album by Leo Nocentelli, best known as the lead guitarist of the New Orleans legendary funk band The Meters, is out in stores.

Another Side”, the first-ever solo album by Leo Nocentelli, best known as the lead guitarist of the New Orleans legendary funk band The Meters, is out in stores.

The band continued with “Rock” and “Heroes ... “Disco” segued into “Driving Song,” followed up a homage to Jazz Fest with The Meters’ “It Ain’t No Use,” last played ...

A lineup of modern New Orleans luminaries will step in for George Porter Jr. at Poppa Funk & The Night Tripper following a positive COVID test for the Meters bassist ... with the newly formed Allman ...

Following the news that George Porter Jr. contracted COVID-19 a lineup of contemporary New Orleans musicians have shared, that they will sub in for the Meters bassist at Poppa Funk & The Night ...

He also sings, which he typically didn’t do with the Meters. He eventually moved on and forgot about ... an understated Thursday set at Jazz Fest. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s ...

Heavy Breathers features George Porter Jr. (The Meters); JoJo Hermann and Duane Trucks (Widespread ... Eric Krasno & The Assembly, Rebirth Brass Band, Liver Down the River, The Runaway Grooms and ...