Artist: Heat Dust

Merchandise + Kindest Lines + Heat Dust performing at United Bakery on April 4, 2012

01.26: Big History + Gold And The Rush + Chilldren + Spirit Animals - Tipitina's Even if you pay reasonably close attention to the New Orleans underground, you may not have come across Gold and the Rush yet. Having only formed late last summer, this young rock and roll band has only a handful of performances under their belt. Gold and the Rush is essentially an infant, in band years. They also aren't traditionally New Orleanian: boasting a membership that includes Washington DC, Los Angeles, Memphis and [...]

Glish + Diving + Heat Dust performing at Dragon's Den on January 10, 2012 Tweet

01.05: Jonathan Parish + Matt Glynn + Julie Odell + Rick Nelson - Carrolton Station 01.06: Cliff Hines + Vox and the Hound + Dominique LeJeune - Cafe Istanbul 01.08: Choi Wolf + Boogie Nazis + Pancake - The Big Top It's been an incredibly active past several months for Alabama native and current New Orleans resident Byron Chance, who in that time has observably involved himself in one project after another, each a diametrically [...]

• Choi Wolf - My Posi Is Wet

Self-released, 2011 Though this latest wave of genre-excavating indie music has yielded a rather admirable group of technically competent, revisionist garage rock bands, these musicians - much like any number of psychedelic, freak folk, electrofunk and lo-fi throwback artists - are creatively bound as much by the necessity of honing authentic onstage personas as they are by the constraints of recreating their particular chosen ambiance in a recording environment. Strangely, the currently ongoing rehash of such famously unpretentious subgenres as fuzz, noise and college rock has, for the most part, been subject to the type of [...]

• Heat Dust - I Was Afraid of Dying
• Heat Dust - Let Them Give Up
• Heat Dust - Sleeping Call