09.27: The Soft Pack + Heavy Hawaii + KG Accidental - One Eyed Jacks 09.28: Rotary Downs + King Rey - Prytania Bar 09.29: Glish + The Beams + Native America + L.F. Knighton - Circle Bar On some oblique level, the Beams may be the purest example in New Orleans of what it means to be a band. Though boasting, through its members, a pedigree [...]
Rotary Downs recording at Rick Nelson's Marigny Recording Studio on August 26, 2012
08.16: Babes + Dominique LeJeune - Circle Bar 08.17: Rotary Downs - d.b.a. 08.18: Felix + Cons and Prose + Sideshow Tragedy - Prytania Bar When entrenched in the Austin City Limits spillover that fills local stages during the fall and the South By Southwest , et al runoff that keeps our agenda slammed throughout spring, it is easy to forget how dusty and plodding a New Orleans summer has the propensity to be. This year was [...]
Any New Orleans resident who has gone east in search of beaches with actual sand and water that won't leave a mark is likely familiar with The Shed , the Ocean Springs, MS barbecue and music destination. Whether you've pulled off I-10 to grab lunch on the way back from Hangout Fest or just seen the name in plain black letters along side the fast-food options listed on the Exit 57 information boards, in the last decade the Orrison family , who own and operate The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint, have earned their place in the hearts [...]
05.03: Babes + Bruiser's House of Surf + Sun Year - Dragon's Den 05.04: Brass Bed + Big Rock Candy Mountain + Au Ras Au Ras - Siberia 05.05: Nick Lowe + Autumn Defense - House of Blues 05.06: Rotary Downs - Circle Bar To the casual observer, it may have seemed like a quiet spring for greatest band in the universe Rotary Downs , who kept [...]
The 11th Annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has unveiled their 2012 lineup and once again it's a beast, starting off with Radiohead (back for the first time since 2006), Phish (returning for first show since 2009), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Bonnarookies). The 4-day outdoor festival traces its genesis back to the late night Jazz [...]
The Marigny/Bywater South-by-Southwest stop-through indie fest known as Foburg Fest, now in it's third year after the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective launched in 2010, has rolled out the lineup for this year’s event, and will take place March 9-11, this year a safer distance from Mardi Gras fallout than last year's (which came the [...]
01.19: King Louie's Missing Monuments + Bipolaroid + Lonely Nights + DJ Matty + Lefty Parker - Siberia 01.20: Rik Slave & the Phantoms + O.L.D. + Little Maker - THE CIRCLE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 01.21: Rotary Downs + R. Scully's Rough 7 - One Eyed Jacks If I learned one thing in 2011, it's that there is no bad way to see greatest band in the universe [...]
As if fighting in the "War On Christmas" isn't stressful enough this time of year, The New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Foundation just released the lineup for the 2012 Jazz Fest, setting off an almost inevitable debate about The Current And Future State Of Music™: Local Edition that has become as much of a yearly tradition as the purchase of ridiculous BayouWear leisure shirts adorned with piano keys shaped like fleurs-de-lis (or vice versa). Regardless of whether last night's announcement was a beacon of hope or a harbinger of disaster, we've got ourselves another solid festival on our hands. [...]
When taking on the arduous task of editing Wikipedia, one is faced with a draconian and arbitrary editorial process, hyper-specific technological codes and an altogether baffling insider culture. If you haven't done your research, learned how to tailor citations to meet certain ambiguous yet rigid criteria or developed a neutral voice, you might as well quit. By the same token, even if you've mastered Wikispeak , perfected the art of navigating Wikipedia's difficult reference guidelines and honed your journalistic writing style, you still have an uphill battle to avoid speedy deletion . But it is a [...]
Camaraderie between a mature rock band and a younger noise duo may seem unlikely in this fast paced and cliquish era of alternative music, but Rotary Downs - local champions of unkillable working man's indie rock - and Caddywhompus - constantly breaking new experimental ground - have recently forged such a platonic relationship, one that bridges the gap between the old and new guard in the New Orleans underground. That both bands are in the midst of writing and recording new material and, as a result, have been performing with an obscene amount of live perfection [...]
Dr. Dog, Tinariwen, and an extra special semi-Rads reunion on Friday night at Tipitina's highlights a busy week of shows in the Big Easy. Continue on below for this week's slate with a video from an artist playing each night of the week. Get out there. Monday, 11/7 Tinariwen @ House of Blues - 8 [...]
Click image to download track Sounds like: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Static Jacks "Rotary Downs - Indian Summer" What's so good? As the weather turns colder here in San Francisco, I've found myself turning to "winter music" - slower, acoustic songs that match my mood while I drink tea and watch the fog roll in. But when I first heard "Indian [...]
Rotary Downs + Caddywhompus performing at d.b.a. on October 29, 2011 Tweet
Worshiping the Weird, the Macabre and Caving Into the Bounce Friday may've been an eclectic day out in City Park, but Saturday is when the full realization that this might just be the most eclectic festival I've attended started kicking in - headed up by the fact that the SoCal Punk Retrospective was going down [...]
The Revivalists + Happy Talk Band + Soul Rebels + Boots Electric + Ozomatli + Rotary Downs + Mastadon + Gordan Gano and Lost Bayou Ramblers, Mastadon + Vockah Redu + Social Distortion + Katey Red + Bobby Rush + X + Snoop Dogg + Girl Talk + Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk + Blink 182 performing at City Park on Octover 29, 2011 for The Voodoo Music Experience Tweet
10.27: 400 Blows + Holy Shakes + Mountain of Wizard + Red Shield - Siberia 10.28: Pygmy Lush + Leaving + HABITAT - The Big Top 10.29: Rotary Downs + Caddywhompus - d.b.a. Marathon sets, special guests, deft covers and rabid crowds are hallmarks of any late night, post-festival musical extravaganza - the promise of which keeps revelrous concert-goers out until the wee hours even with the knowledge that, come morning, they have [...]
There’s undoubtedly too much happening on any given day of Voodoo to talk about everything. Nevertheless, we figured it couldn’t hurt to tell you what performances we’re excited about. Here’s a few thoughts on a national and a local act that we are looking forward to on Saturday. X: Le Carnival Bingo! Parlor, 7:00PM The often dormant American tradition of disquieted musicianship whose minimalism and simplicity is tempered only by artists' forthright and nuanced desperation - epitomized by acts like the Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Dylan, [...]
Greatest band in the universe Rotary Downs performing at City Park on October 1, 2011 for New Orleans On Tap Tweet
07.28: Dummy Dumpster + The Pests + Converts - 12 Bar 07.29: He's My Brother She's My Sister + Alexis Marceaux + Dominique Lejeune - Breezy's Spot The last time He's My Brother She's My Sister rolled through town, it was in a supporting role on the Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes tour that pulled into The Howlin' Wolf last October. While it is hard not to get lost in the shadow of the over-the-top spectacle that is an Ed Sharpe/Mag Z's live performance, HMBSMS's playful take [...]
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