New Orleans-based Sun Hotel came up on the indie blogosphere a few years back with their free self-released EP Team Spirit. Since then they have proven themselves as an extraordinarily talented rock band that can pump out epic and emotionally charged tracks seemingly with ease. They are now signed to Chinquapin Records and are set to release a new EP. Their music consists of four part harmonies that will make you cry and guitars lathered so thickly in glorious swampy reverb you'll snap your neck banging your head. I recently had the chance to catch up with guitarist and [...]
After spending the summer as a duo specializing in fuzzed-out ambient/acoustic drone suites performed on dozens of prepared synthesizers, Native America 's Saturday night return to the stage as a three-piece rock outfit did nothing if not show the versatility of lead singer and renaissance man Ross Farbe's hardly-can-be-considered-a-sid e-project-anymore side project. What started as a one-man experiment in field recording and space-folk during downtime from his gig as Sun Hotel's multi-instrumentalist and home-studio engineer emerged this weekend as a drum-tight psychedelic power-pop machine, knocking out a bouncy set of dream-like rippers custom-tailored for the challenging [...]
08.11: Gillian Welch - Tipitina's 08.12: The Tontons + Felix + In Elevators - The Big Top 08.14: Zorch +Caddywhompus + Sun Hotel + Twin Killers - One Eyed Jacks Austin, TX’s relative newcomers Zorch have quickly made a name for themselves through the perfect employment of quirky, spectacular behavior and a seemingly never-ending flow of creative output, the multiple avenues of which have painted this two-piece keyboard and drum combo as being [...]
Cody Blaine + Coleman Jernigan + John Michael Rouchell + Matt Peoples & Drew Meez + Sun Hotel performing at Breezy's on June 26, 2011 for the "Take It To The Zimet" Fundraiser.
Andrew Duhon will be performing at Breezy's on June 26, 2011 to benefit Nathanial Zimet If you don't know Chef Nathanial Zimet from the indispensable contemporary southern cuisine he dishes out at Carrollton "it" restaurant Boucherie , you may know him as one of the guys who has satisfied your set-break hunger pangs with an order of grit fries from the purple "Que Crawl" truck that used to call the curb outside Tipitina's home. Unfortunately, you may also know him as a recent victim of the senseless violence that has long had a grip on [...]
A Billion Ernies will be performing at the Big Top on June 22, 2011 06.17: Nicole Atkins + Sun Hotel - The Parish 06.18: The Unnaturals - Banks Street Bar 06.19: Tombs + Haarp - Euclid Records 06.22: A Billion Ernies + Caddywhompus + The Dongles + The Riffs - The Big Top Though the ideology of punk rock from the 1980s was essentially defined by bands' extremely unconventional - even unpredictable [...]
Big Freedia is performing at Republic on June 8, 2011 06.09: Bounce VI featuring Big Freedia + Sissy Nobby + DJ Jubilee + Katey Red + DJ Rusty Lazer - Republic As a white New Orleans transplant in his mid-to-late-20s, it's hard to talk about bounce music – and specifically, it's gender-bending descendant, sissy bounce – without sounding like a clown. Enthusiasm for the amazing amount of attention this unique style of music has been garnering as of late is often seen as ignorance to the long and [...]
New Orleans indie-rock band Sun Hotel may be young but they seem like veterans when it comes to their live shows. Sandwiched between HEALTH and Best Coast, Sun Hotel commanded the main stage audience at B.O.M.B. Fest on Saturday for about forty minutes. Check out photos from their set courtesy of our photographers Jennifer Murtha and Phil DeSimone ( FromThePhotoPit.com ).
Well folks, it's that time of the month again. We're headed to pianos for the amazing, and very much free, Rumble: New York party. This Month, the lineup is pretty stacked, with Stepdad (@fancystepdad), a stellar duo who are joining us from Grand Rapids, MI, We Barbarians (@webarbarians), the Brooklyn three piece and TWHP favorite for some time, and Sun Hotel (@sunhotel), who are bringing their incredible atmospheric sound all the way from New Orleans. I'm crazy excited to see the full lineup, [...]
Artwork by Ivan Minsloff THE RUMBLE: NEW YORK @ PIANOS – MAY 30TH – FREE! Featuring Stepdad, We Barbarians & Sun Hotel Hopefully you've come back from the Hamptons or Cape Cod a little sun kissed and relaxed but not quite ready to get back into worker-bee mode, so we offer up the Memorial Day weekend extension tomorrow night @ Pianos when THE RUMBLE: NEW YORK returns to close out May. We particularly into [...]
Summer 2011 will see Sun Hotel touring in anticipation of the Gifts EP Hey you, Johnny Stillincollege! Congrats on coasting by your junior year. I heard you just also just turned 21! You're getting so old...Well, since I have you here, I just wanted to let you know that while you're breezing through yet another summer at your parents' pool supply store or your buddy's dad's accounting firm, the young men in Sun Hotel - busy students in their own right - are spending it on the road . After a successful run [...]
THE RUMBLE: NEW YORK @ PIANOS - MAY 30TH - FREE Featuring Stepdad, We Barbarians & Sun Hotel Announcing the May edition of The Rumble: New York @ Pianos with three bands we've been oooglin' for some time - Stepdad, We Barbarians & Sun Hotel STEPDAD On the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign, STEPDAD are prepping for a new record, a follow up to their debut, [...]
Maddie Ruthless + Informant + Matt Wixson’s Flying Circus + Murphy's Kids + Joystick + The Lollies + Joystick + Sun Hotel + Forthright + Stereohype + A Billion Ernies + Caddywhompus + Stuck Lucky performing at The Big Top for the 2011 Community Records Block Party on April 16, 2011
Chris Rehm is performing at Breezy's on April 17, 2011 04.14: Sleeping In The Aviary + The Dives + The Elevators - The Saint 04.15: Smoke Dogg, A Tribute to Nate Dogg featuring Derrick Freeman's Smoker's World + Johnny Sketch + Corey Henry + Koan + M@ Peoples - Tipitina's 04.16: Record Store Day + Community Records Block Party + Tulane Crawfest 04.17: Native America + Chris Rehm + Ben Jones - Breezy's [...]
Greg Rodrigue and Daniel Ray will be putting on the Community Records Block Party on April 16, 2011 After much anticipation, the de facto centerpiece of festival season is finally upon the city of New Orleans. After a massive first act that included Foburg Fest, French Quarter Fest, and Austin's South by Southwest Festival, the third annual Community Records Block Party is, seemingly by design, the punk rock primer for the laid back, lighthearted vibes of Jazz Fest and Hang Out Fest. Taking place this Saturday, April 16, from noon until midnight, the local festival will [...]
Sun Hotel is kicking off their Spring Break Tour at the 2011 Community Records Block Party These days, I'm far too old to benefit from "Spring Break", the almost universally adopted tradition wherein schools give students a week off just as the weather starts to break and students, in turn, go to the beach and get hammered. From what I can remember of it, though, it was pretty cool. For their 2nd annual Spring Break tour, Sun Hotel are headed to the coast, bringing their recalcitrant brand of swampy indie rock to the Sunshine State: [...]
DJ Fatfingaz will be judging the 2011 DMC New Orleans DJ Battle at Howlin Wolf on April 1, 2011 03.31 : WTUL Annual CD Release Party featuring Debauche + The Bills + The Madd Wikkid - The Big Top 04.01: 2011 DMC New Orleans DJ Battle featuring DJ Swamp + DJ Fatfingaz - Howlin' Wolf What do you think of when you hear the term "DJ"? "Disc jockey" means different things to different people, with legitimate and accurate definitions encompassing everyone from the [...]
Luke Winslow-King, Booty Trove, Native America, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Zorch, The Yes Way, High In One Eye, Sun Hotel, Debauche and Flow Tribe performing at the 2011 Foburg Music Festival on March 11, 2011
Tomorrow, mes chères, is Fat Tuesday, which marks the beginning of Lent and also one of the biggest party days of the year. It's also, of course, New Orleans' biggest holiday. Tramp through the French Quarter tomorrow - or anytime this week, really - and it'll be difficult to avoid drunken, beaded, half-naked revelers. It'll also be hard to avoid the music -brass bands and blues guys and banjo fiddlers coming from every which way. You already know about the legends (there's this guy named Louis Armstrong), but New Orleans has more to offer than its blues and jazz greats [...]
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