10.04: Tops + Dominique Lejeune + DeftJams - One Eyed Jacks 10.05: Merchandise + Glish + Loveless - The Big Top 10.06: Chef Menteur + Whom Do You Work For? - The Circle Bar 10.07: Habitat + Woozy + Gnarwhal - The Big Top 10.08: Bombay Bicycle Club + Vacationeer + Sports & Leisure - House Of Blues 10.09: Bipolaroid [...]
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 [...]
09.20: Babes + Prom Date + Benjamin Booker - The Big Top 09.21: Big Rock Candy Mountain + Bantam Foxes - Circle Bar Since they first bust on the local scene with their 2009 debut EP Hey Kid , the New Orleans music community has rarely agreed about anything the way we've agreed about Big Rock Candy Mountain . Rising from the ashes of nearly a half-dozen bands spanning nearly every sub-genre of the city's storied but [...]
Habitat + Pile + Y'all performing at One Eyed Jacks on September 11, 2012
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 [...]
Fall is upon us (though the heat would have us believing otherwise), and with it comes the time of year when local musicians and the like begin to ramp up their creative output. This week Generationals, LoOmis and Mason Briggs unleash new music, while Breezy's begins its long-awaited comeback and Royal Teeth's recent good fortunes continue. Never known to go quiet for too long, locally-based nationally-recognized indie pop duo Generationals have returned from with the follow-up to 20112s Actor-Caster , the synthy and upbeat new single "Lucky Numbers" . In [...]
09.06: Coyotes + Aerial Attack + Cozy - Prytania Bar 09.07: Yeasayer - Republic 09.08: Native Ameri ca + Donovan Wolfington + ArchAnimals - Thermos If I were to pick one concert line-up that accurately represents the personality and attitudinal makeup of New Orleans' DIY Indie culture, it would have to be one that showcases three bands who seem to be philosophically conjoined at their hips [...]
Rotary Downs recording at Rick Nelson's Marigny Recording Studio on August 26, 2012
08.23: Michael Girardot's Macrofuns + Mississippi Shakedown - Circle Bar 08.24: Alexis and the Samurai + England in 1819 + ImagineIAM - Howlin' Wolf Den 08.25: Coyotes + Gold And The Rush + Sports & Leisure - Carrollton Station As a unit, Sports & Leisure have only been a presence in the New Orleans underground musical consciousness since October 2011, but the band's individual players possess as [...]
All People performing at The Parish at House Of Blues on August 20, 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 [...]
The city looks like they may be starting to chill out just as the music schedule is starting to pick up. This is a good thing. Other good things: Heat Dust gets signed, Brass Bed's got a new song, Au Ras Au Ras' got a new video and Buku is back for 2013. San Antonio-based Texas Is Funny Records has added nostalgic fuzz rockers Heat Dust to their small but growing roster of noise, punk, prog and "post-" bands from around the south. Heat Dust is just getting back to town after their most extensive tour to [...]
The first thing I noticed upon walking into The Big Top last Thursday night was how great everything sounded in what is normally an acoustically quirky and unpredictable room. One look at the stage explained everything, as front-and-center, relentlessly wailing on an electric guitar and crooning about how much he hates the south through a devilish grin was Jay Holland, the longtime front of house guru who helps make One Eyed Jacks the best room in the city to catch live music. He was fronting cowpunkish rockers Narcissy, a band of scene veterans who have spent the better [...]
08.09: The Eastern Sea + Native America + Sharks' Teeth - One Eyed Jacks Although their last trip to New Orleans was just a little over a month ago, it feels like The Eastern Sea we're talking about right now are a completely different monster than the group who passed through town at the beginning of July. There was no doubt plenty to be said about one of Austin's most impressive exports leading up to that particular gig (a Carrollton Station show that marked Vox And The Hound 's [...]
Sun Hotel + Ava Luna + Narcissy performing at The Big Top on August 2, 2012
By now, most of us are aware of the latest stage of City Hall's sneaky and unpredictable War on Culture. A few weeks ago venerable Bywater institution Siberia ran into some permitting issues that caused them to suspend their expansive live music schedule, and just yesterday it appears a similar fate officially befell the similarly venerable Circle Bar . (And in a week fraught with confusion and misinformation, the Gambit's Alex Woodward - as he is consistently wont to do - once again came through with the most complete, accurate and thoughtful assessment of a local happening.) The [...]
Heat Dust + Adults + The Fagettes performing at The Saint on August 1, 2012
08.02: Sun Hotel + Ava Luna + Narcissy - The Big Top 08.03: Mahayla + Fake Natives + ArchAnimals - The Circle Bar 08.04: Dirty Projectors + Wye Oak - House Of Blues My first live Dirty Projectors experience came in the summer of 2009 on a farm in Manchester, Tennessee. After hearing their collaboration with one of my personal heroes David Byrne on the Red Hot compilation Dark Was The [...]
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 [...]
07.26: You Blew It! + The Rooks + Les Doux + Shark Bait + Brent Houzenga - The Big Top 07.27: The Iko Allstars + Colin Lake - Tipitina's 07.28: Quintron and Miss Pussycat + Gary Wrong - One Eyed Jacks 07.29: The Cons and Prose - Circle Bar 07.31: Glish + ArchAnimals + Big Waves of Pretty - Banks Street Bar [...]
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