The Circle Bar is Seriously Reopening its Doors
2011 in New Orleans was a great year not just for music fans but for music venues of every size and stripe. Small room additions like the Howlin’ Wolf Den managed to give a much-needed platform for upstart local and under-the-radar touring bands in the Warehouse District while fledgling Bywater venue Siberia experienced a massive [...]
Disappears Release First Single From Upcoming Full-Length
Disappears front man Brian Case is either the beneficiary of a never-ending treasure trove of material waiting to be put on wax at his convenience or a master of surrounding himself with a supporting cast that makes it look easy to release something of substance every year since 2008 (or both). After last year’s early [...]
Buku Music & Art Project Coming To Mardi Gras World In March
2011 was an impressive year for local electronic-leaning entertainment house Winter Circle Productions. In addition to growing their monthly BASSIK showcase – which hosts up-and-coming dubstep DJs from all over the world – into one of the hottest recurring tickets in New Orleans, WCP was behind some of the biggest and most exciting concerts of [...]
G-Eazy Partners With Swiss Chriss and Christoph Andersson On New Single
It’s getting increasingly difficult to think of G-Eazy as a purely, or even relatively, local musical entity. With an unobtrusive omnipresence both on and off the stage that’s manifested itself in New Orleans as a devoted and semi-hysterical following, it can be hard to accept (though not that hard to imagine) that the same slick-parted [...]
The 2012 Jazz Fest Lineup Is Out!
As if fighting on one side of the “War On Christmas” or the other 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 [...]
Mrs. Magician Delay Full Length Debut, Release 7-Inch
While San Diego surf band Mrs. Magician continues to morph from an initially mysterious demonic thrill into an illuminated, deceptively feel-good garage pop group, there has been apparently little activity on the release front since last Fall’s There is No God 7″ and this past Spring’s The Spells 7″. While tripped-out music videos for “Get [...]
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister Raising Money For A Tour Van
Bands holding pledge drives to raise money for their artistic efforts is nothing new; in the last few years we’ve seen locals Sun Hotel solicit donations when they wanted to release their debut album on vinyl, Cliff Hines do the same to bring his Quintet to the East Coast, and Royal Teeth ask for the [...]
Sun Hotel Front Man Releases New Sharks’ Teeth Track
Though no anecdote involving Sun Hotel’s staggering collective work ethic should catch anyone off guard at this point, it’s nevertheless overwhelming to peruse the seemingly endless stream of releases on the side bar of singer Tyler Scurlock’s Sharks’ Teeth Bandcamp page and realize that this output exists in addition to his separate writing and performing [...]
Houmapalooza Announces Lineup for Fall Festival
As Lafayette’s LAfestival and Mobile, Alabama’s LoDa Live have shown, New Orleans isn’t the only Gulf Coast city with a burgeoning independent rock scene worth showing off. Just an hour to our southwest lies Houma, home to an historically interesting musical culture that spans from the Cajun tradition to Blues men like Tab Benoit to [...]
