Preview // Record Store Day 2012 in New Orleans
Almost as quickly as our music-consuming culture abandoned compact discs as the industry standard in favor of digital downloading’s ease and convenience, it began grasping for some semblance of physicality in the experience of owning and sharing music. Of course, the result has been the galvanizing reemergence of vinyl records. The newly-piqued interest of the [...]
Preview // 2012 French Quarter Festival
It’s common to hear this weekend’s annual French Quarter Fest referred to as the younger sibling/cousin/progeny of the much grander New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but these days that classification is really only applicable based on the literal age of the event. Sure, FQF didn’t land Bruce Springsteen and His E Street Band this [...]
Preview // 2012 SouthSounds Music Festival
This coming weekend, as many of us descend on Downtown New Orleans to witness, play and revel in the 72-hour brass and roots free-for-all that is French Quarter Festival, many of the Big Easy’s rising stars in the underground rock community are (as symmetry would have it) blasting out of town for a cultural melee [...]
Punk Rock Matinees Coming To The Big Top
It’s a concept that has been applied many times throughout the past decade or so. The idea of “Sunday Matinees” – early evening, weekend ending concerts capable of catering to both the underaged-with-protective-parents crowd and the aging, late-night-avoidance crowd – has always been a well-intentioned, if not necessary, community-building exercise for New Orleans’ underground punk [...]
Preview // Buku Music and Art Project: 03.17.2012 – 03.18.2012
This weekend, New Orleans welcomes a brand new addition to Festival Season as the inaugural Buku Music and Art Project descends on Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World, offering an almost literally unbelievable lineup that hits every high point in electronic music, underground hip-hop and many different combinations of the two. Wiz Kalifa, Cities Aviv, Rockie [...]
The Barryfest Guide to New Orleans Bands at SXSW 2012
With Foburg only days behind us, the festival’s older, larger, captain-of-the-varsity-football-team brother – Austin’s annual South by Southwest Festival – will be officially underway in only a matter of hours. For all the adventurous New Orleans cats willing to take the drive/flight to Texas, the experience can be at best completely overwhelming and at worst [...]
Preview // Foburg Festival 2012
Last year, when the second official Foburg Music Festival descended on the city of New Orleans, it presented a noticeable shift from the year past – namely with respect to the geographic footprint of the event which, though beginning as exclusively a Frenchman Street affair, expanded to include parts of the French Quarter as well [...]
Prom Date Returns With Sophomore EP
Baton Rouge indie-electro ravers Prom Date have had no problem practically embedding themselves in the New Orleans musical landscape. Since first beginning to pop up just over a year ago, their steadily growing number of performances down here has reached a point where the apt question on any given night has become, “Isn’t Prom Date [...]
Preview // Cafe Carnival: 02.16.2012 – 02.20.2012
In the last six months, no local venue has made a larger effort to break into a higher echelon of rock club status than hidden-in-plain-sight Garden District standby Cafe Prytania. More frequent, consistent and eclectic booking in the back half of 2011 slowly but surely elevated the humble establishment from occasional Loyola-band hotspot to a [...]
