In the last six months, no local venue has made a larger effort to break into a higher echelon of rock club status than hidden-in-plain-sight Garden District standby Cafe Prytania . More frequent, consistent and eclectic booking in the back half of 2011 slowly but surely elevated the humble establishment from occasional Loyola-band hotspot to a dependable destination to catch up-and-coming local, regional and even nationally touring talent. The only downside to Cafe P's rising profile was the unfortunate way the larger, more frenzied crowds brought the shortcomings of the bar's unusual layout into sharper focus, as [...]
Although they've been off of the local live circuit for a few months, it should be no surprise to anyone that the members of Big Rock Candy Mountain have had no trouble picking up where they left off. Michael Girardot is a constantly-working artist, splitting time between his front man duties for BRCM and keyboard work with both the Revivalists and greatest band in the universe Rotary Downs, while drummer Paul Thibodeaux - a classically trained jazz musician - regularly collaborates with everyone from Bionica's Sasha Masakowski to Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship's [...]
Dead Confederate + Big Rock Candy Mountain + Sun Hotel performing at The Parish at House of Blues on November 2, 2011 Tweet
10.20: Beats Antique - Tipitina's French Quarter 10.21: Blue Party - Republic 10.22: Helmet+ Star and Dagger + Sunrise Sunset - One Eyed Jacks 10.23: Cliff Hines Presents Radiohead Tribute - One Eyed Jacks At this point it should be no surprise that the primary driving force behind the young classically-schooled guitar mega-talent known as Cliff Hines is his ceaseless [...]
Big Rock Candy Mountain + Red River + Big History performing at Saturn Bar on February 11, 2011
Felix is performing at The Saint on Feburary 14, 2011 02.10: Designer Drugs - Republic 02.11: Big Rock Candy Mountain + Big History + Red River - Saturn Bar 02.12: Happy Talk Band + Other Planets - Dragon's Den 02.13: Intimate Stranger + Lovey Dovies + Caddywhompus - Siberia 02.14: Felix + Jean Eric + Young Big Dogs + DJ James Price - The Saint [...]
Tomorrow Geronimo Festival in Lafayette will be celebrating its third birthday. Artists this year include: Givers , Caddywhompus vs. B L A C K I E , Frau Eva , Rotary Downs , Sun Hotel , Big Rock Candy Mountain , Fleur De Tease and many more. We had a chance to ask some of the bands playing a few questions. Check it out! What is your favorite memory [...]
The boys in Big Rock Candy Mountain , out of my home town New Orleans, are planing on driving 5,000 miles and heading west starting this Friday at One Eyed Jacks with MyNameIsJohnMichael . They are going all the way to the Bay Area before realizing that its kinda cold up there and turning back to New Orleans. They are also going into the studio in San Francisco to cut a track for a Reapandsow Compilation . They have some new t-shirts, a slightly larger vehicle, and some new songs for the tour. So, if you are [...]
I said I would have some top 10s for you and I will be posting 3 this week. Today is all about my home town peeps who are probably just as nervously excited as I am about the Saints being 13-0. Hopefully, they tighten it up for the Cowboys this weekend 1 - GENERATIONALS - CON LAW I usually try and judge albums and artists based on so many things. Here is why I chose this album as number one: They are awesome dudes, they make some amazing [...]
Here is more information on artists that were debuts on this week's Future Sounds radio show on WOXY ..... THE BLACK RYDER MYSPACE HOMETOWN: Sydney, Australia TRACK: Gone Without Feeling Down under continues to bubble up the goods, time and time again, this time [...]
for the past 4-5 months i have been "borrowing" someones wifi signal, and as of 4 days ago that signal has disappeared. it was pretty great while it lasted though, i gotta be honest. although, the signal was spotty at best i could deal with it cause, well, it was free. the person was using an unsecured n router, and it had to have been coming from a block away cause i do know that there was a pc on the network that was called "steve's pc." theres no one on my block named steve, so it had to be [...]
What better way to start your school year off with than a rock show! This Saturday with a few of my favorites @ Carrollton Station so you college kids can walk or take the street car if you are so inclined. MP3: Big Rock Candy Mountain - Rocketship MP3: Caddywhompus - But Not Before the Show...
One of New Orleans newer bands, Blue Party , is headlining the world famous Blue Nile this Thursday with one of my favorite prog rocky bands from the big easy, Big Rock Candy Mountain , and the touring band, Roadside Graves , which has just recently signed to Aquarium Drunkard's new label. They always did say that blogs would take the place of record labels on day. MP3: The Blue Party - Homeless MP3: Big Rock Candy Mountain - Rocketship
Check out Austin's own International Waters tomorrow with Wine and Revolution and Big Rock Candy Mountain at the Circle Bar . International Waters is a band you should definitely keep an eye out for in the coming months. So, see them now so you can say you saw them when at the Circle Bar. And here is an MP3 from International Waters: MP3: International Waters - Salt and Sea
I am not sure if as I get older I am getting weirder, or more interesting. I hope it is the later. I have decided to start asking random questions to bands. That will be my thing to keep me, and hopefully you interested. The lucky first contestant is The Blue Party , from my home town of New Orleans. I had a great conversation recently with a friend of mine. We spoke of a time when we would no longer have fancy things like Twitter and [...]
Cause we do. And we will be attending his party tonight over at Saturn Bar with The Other Planets, Big Rock Candy Mountain and eating Jamabalaya. What more could you ask for? a fancy flyer?
Big Rock Candy Mountain is releasing their new EP entitled Hey Kid tonight at Tipitina's. With supporting cast The Revivalists and The Blue Party. To preview the album go check it out on the band's Bandcamp page - HERE
Wikipedia describes a hangover as "the sum of unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of a drug." That is how my NOLA brothers must feel after Jazz Fest and by the looks of the upcoming events calender (thanks to our brothers at Antigravity ) the jealousy may move from me to you to you to me especially as it gets even hotter and there are more music related events going on up here then down there and honestly isn't much going on in May so this may be a short post. FRIDAY 5/8 [...]
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN Ohhh yeah and it was Leo's last show with BRCM ZYDEPUNKS SILENT CINEMA
The New Orleans Indie Rock Fest is just one day away so I decided to shoot some questions over to one of the bands. I chose Big Rock Candy Mountain because this is already such a great week for them, might as well add to the fun with an interview on the Static Blog. First, they are playing on Friday for NOIR II Fest with the Zydepunks and Silent Cinema at One Eyed Jacks, and they released a free EP yesterday on their website . STATIC: Any crazy moments we [...]
Barryfest
Static TV Blog
FUTURE SOUNDS
Captain's Dead
50 Best iPhone Apps 2012
Download: La Sera - "Break My Heart"
MP3 // River City Extension “There & Back Again”
