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 [...]
Preview // 2011 Oak Street Po-Boy Festival: 11.20.2011
Back for it’s fifth edition, this time under a slightly abbreviated name, The Oak Street Po-Boy Festival takes over the most bustling street in the Riverbend neighborhood this weekend. What started in 2007 as the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival with a small stretch of vendors and a handful of local music acts has grown [...]
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 [...]
Giant Cloud Releasing Final Album, Playing Reunion Show
From the end of 2008 until just a few months ago, many arguments about the best band in New Orleans’ burgeoning indie rock movement came to one surprisingly consistent conclusion, surprising only given how nebulous and pedantic any such discussion tends to be. With their baroque space rock – equal parts majestic instrumentation, soaring vocal [...]
Preview // 2011 Gentilly Fest: 10.01.2011 – 10.02.2011
This weekend, the community-organized Gentilly Fest returns for a fourth year of ambitiously tackling the myriad problems facing the historic New Orleans Neighborhood in the wake of not only Katrina, but also the more broad economic decline that has hit the Gentilly area particularly hard. The Gentilly Fest began three years ago as a way [...]
Preview // LAfestival: 09.24.2011
The Waterkeeper Alliance is an international, grassroots coalition of local watchdog groups that protect the health and sustainability of over 200 of the most important waterways in the world . The local chapter, the Atchafayala Basinkeepers, is charged with looking after the largest swampland in the United States, the delicate 135-mile long distributary that leads [...]
Preview // Ponderosa Stomp Music Conference: 09.15.2011 – 09.17.2011
Back for its tenth year of not only celebrating the the rich history of American roots music but also bringing it’s progenitors back to the stage, The Ponderosa Stomp Music Conference returns to New Orleans for a weekend of performances, exhibits, and outreach programs. In its first nine years, the event has expanded to include [...]
