Maybe there's a way to actually see a band at CMJ Music Festival without any previous knowledge - to really discover a band like Wolf Parade or Surfer Blood or The Beatles or whoever came before 2012. There was the joke going around about who was "going to be the next Surfer Blood" this year, and to be honest I don't really know if there's a clear frontrunner for that kind of singular standout band this year. I don't even know if the CMJ machine - which is enormous by the way, as evinced by the [...]
09.13: The Tangle + Dresden + The Stairwells - Circle Bar 09.14: Baby Bee + King Rey + Sports and Leisure - Parish @ House of Blues 09.15: Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun + Coyotes + Alexis and The Samurai - Circle Bar 09.16: Jack Donovan + Chris Rehm + Andrew Landry - Mudlark Theater There has never been anything secret about our love for [...]
As the hottest month of the year finally comes to a close, nonstop rain and monsoon weather has attempted to dampen the collective mood of all New Orleans art and entertainment fanatics. Naturally though, the city's music culture seems to only get denser and more exciting as the summer trudges along: Hometown hip-hop hero G-Eazy , currently criss-crossing the country on the 2012 Vans Warped Tour , just announced the details of his fall tour. He'll be joining forces with fellow buzzed-about indie rapper Hoodie Allen for a month of [...]
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Chinquapin Records, 2012 Even in an insular music culture like that of New Orleans, where there is rarely any attention - nary even lip service - paid to industry conventions like album cycles, public relations pushes or award banquet back-patting, the "solo ambient album" as an objet d'art tends to escape the honest and centered attention of even the most attentive listener. With few exceptions, the simple act of stating that a particular artist has made an ambient record has an almost automatic consequence of marginalizing the work as something extraneous, or maybe even [...]
Caddywhompus + The Icarus Line + SS Boombox performing at Circle Bar on June 18, 2012
Riff Tiffs performing on June 2, 2012 at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston, TX for Free Press Summer Fest
In its fourth year, the Free Press Summer Fest continues to be horrible news for New Orleanians who take pleasure in deriding Houston as our perpetually lame neighbor. The two day event is returning to downtown's Eleanor Tinsley Park with one of the summer's most extensive, diverse and nuanced lineups you'll find outside of Manchester, Tennessee. Neo-folk superstars The Avett Brothers, country legend Willie Nelson and original gangsta Snoop Dogg lead a charge of over 120 bands representing the most exciting players of every relevant musical genre. Rockers include The Flaming Lips , Portugal. [...]
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 [...]
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