With the three day weekend coming up, there is plenty of local news to sink your ear teeth into. This Memorial Day make sure to party, be safe and do something awesome like these guys. Earl Scioneaux III , better known as The Madd Wikkid , also known as the man behind the knobs for recent recordings from Luke Winslow-King and Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns , is embarking on a bold and unique brass band tribute to French electronic impresarios Daft Punk. For the endeavor known as Brassft [...]
Country Club + Sun Hotel + Caddywhompus performing on May 10, 2012 at 12 Bar
05.10: Caddywhompus + Sun Hotel + Country Club + KG Accidental - 12 Bar So it would appear that this is it, the slow-coming official winding-down of Country Club , one of New Orleans' most universally beloved rock and roll bands over the course of the last two years. After a short but eventful career that found them dipping their toes in the waters of college roots rock a la the Revivalists before abandoning that scene in favor of the edge-cutting DIY ethos of underground rock locus [...]
A Billion Ernies, All People, B L A C K I E, Brunt Of It, Caddywhompus, Choi Wolf, Controller, Dominique LeJeune, Good Luck, Habitat, Joystick, Left Alone, Mad Conductor, Maddie Ruthless, Matt Wixon's Flying Circus, Murphy's Kids, Mustard Plug, Safety, and The Lollies performing at The Big Top on April 21, 2012 for the 2012 Community Records Block Party
This coming weekend, as many of us descend on Downtown New Orleans to witness, play and revel in the 72-hour brass and roots free-for-all that is French Quarter Festival, many of the Big Easy's rising stars in the underground rock community are (as symmetry would have it) blasting out of town for a cultural melee of their own. Although that means we have to resort to fantasizing about the glory of a Caddywhompus Woldenberg Park concert for yet another year, be assured that they - as well as their close contemporaries - will have no problem reaching such [...]
Chicken Gyro + Sun Hotel + Boyfrndz + Caddywhompus performing at the Circle Bar on March 29, 2012.
Chris Rehm + Andrew Landry + Jack Donovan performing at Breezy's Spot on March 28, 2012
Hi-Fi Octopi, 2012 "Don't you think it might be a little too messy to actually enjoy?" asked a car ride acquaintance of mine recently after hearing Memory Hoarders , the newest release by New Orleans noise punk duo High In One Eye . I suppose on some level she was right to at least bring it up : Andrew Landry and Evan Cvitanovich aren't exactly in the business of pleasing ears, certainly not those of the casual listener; with unrecognizably muffled vocals and every guitar effect piped through a Line 6 amp, HIOE [...]
03.29: Bomb the Music Industry! + The Lollies + Safety + All People - The Big Top > Boyfrndz + Caddywhompus + Sun Hotel + Chicken Gyro - Circle Bar To be clear, Block Party is going to be the event of the year for the New Orleans punk rock underground, and it will be difficult for any single concert this year to top the twelve hours of non-stop music, records, food and fun that it's going to offer. But damned if tonight's double venue whatever-you-call-it doesn't come close. Teaming up for what [...]
Hours before my fourth trip to South by Southwest Festival would take a decided turn for the Kerouackian, when I'd find myself sleeping among a sea of strangers thirty deep in what appeared to be a furniture-less detox safe house for strung-out teens with an elderly black man walking around smoking a cigarette preaching the Bible and talking from personal experience about the ills of intravenous heroin (but what was actually a Craigslist rental occupied by blog rappers and rock and roll bands on their last physical leg of energy), I was sitting in my car, in bumper-to-bumper traffic, in [...]
Hooray For Earth + Electric Flower Group + Bass Drum of Death + Santigold + Caddwhompus + The Eastern Sea + Marmalakes + Japanther + Ava Luna + Maps & Atlases performing in and around Austin, Texas on March 16, 2012 for South by Southwest Festival
Candy Claws + Chrome Sparks w/ Stefaloo + Secret Mountains + Tops + You Won't + Sun Hotel + Hikes + The Artist Formerly Known as 2012 + Glish + Sun Hotel + Caddywhompus performing in and around Austin, Texas on March 15, 2012 for South by Southwest Festival
Welcome to our report on South By Southwest from Austin, TX, where sleep is nominal and foot pain is exponential. We're giving you the run on bands we really enjoyed every day this week, so check out our blurbs and pictures below for coverage of Friday at SXSW, including a review of Jack White's much talked about performance. Parties/Showcases We Listen For You Acoustic Showcase - 10:30 a.m. @ Diverse Arts lot (Bro Stephens, Conveyer, Arms, Henry Clay People, Dent May, Miracles of Modern Science, and [...]
Maps & Atlases + Sun Hotel + Caddywhompus performing at One Eyed Jacks for Foburg Music Festival
Last year, when the second official Foburg Music Festival descended on the city of New Orleans, it presented a noticeable shift from the year past - namely with respect to the geographic footprint of the event which, though beginning as exclusively a Frenchman Street affair, expanded to include parts of the French Quarter as well as the St. Claude area. Additionally, the presence of big-ticket out-of-town acts were a sign that the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective is serious about raising the national profile of Foburg. It's certainly a worthwhile concept: as the story has been [...]
I am overly excited to help announce the first ever PORTALS SXSW Showcase! That's right, the crew is headed to Austin next month to be a part of the action and help throw a killer party! It comes equipped with BBQ, drinks, more music than you could possibly want, some super nerdy bloggers, transportation via the PORTALSbus! and some amazing sponsors. Ex.fm and The Basic Fund have been kind enough to throw down and help us get this thing going, and we couldn't be more thankful. Here's [...]
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 [...]
Just as the NFL Draft, with all the pomp and circumstance that surround it, is considered by some to be America's fourth major professional sport, the first few months of every year find the coming Festival Season's numerous events unveiled in quick succession, a noteworthy and exciting music-centric stretch in its own right. Rumors abound, travel plans are made, and sometimes vitriolic meditations on the Current And Future State Of Music™ are hard to avoid. But sardined among reliably controversial announcements from Hangout Music Festival , Jazz Fest, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo and Coachella is the one press release that is [...]
Caddywhompus + Native America + The Suzies + Archanimals performing at Planet 1920 on January 15, 2012 Tweet
Caddywhompus + B L A C K I E + Habitat + fucks + Choi Wolf + Proud Father performing at the NOLA Art House on St. Claude on January 14, 2012 Tweet
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