Preview // 2012 Community Records Block Party
By the end of April, just as the rest of the country is getting their festival engines started, a triumvirate of consecutive noteworthy weekend events will have already swept through New Orleans, satiating the diverse tastes of locals and flooding the streets with music lovers from all over the world. This past weekend’s record setting [...]
Photoset // Bomb The Music Industry! + Safety + All People: 03.29.2012
All People + Safety + Bomb the Music Industry! performing at the Big Top on March 29, 2012.
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 [...]
Photoset // See You In Mexico + Dominique LeJeune + The Rooks + High In One Eye: 02.24.2012
See You In Mexico + Dominique LeJeune + The Rooks + High In One Eye performing at the Community Records practice space on February 24, 2012
Block Party 2012 Lineup Announced!
Just as the NFL Draft, with all the pomp and circumstance that surround it, is considered by some to be America’s fourth major professional sport, the first few months of every year, during which time details about the annual Festival Season’s numerous events are unveiled in quick succession, is a noteworthy and exciting music-centric stretch [...]
Photoset // Community Records Block Party DVD Premiere: 12.13.2011, 12.14.2011
Sun Hotel + Chris Rehm + The Lollies performing at The Big Top on December 13, 2011 and December 14, 2011 for the premiere of Walk On Some Heads, the Community Records Block Party DVD
Preview // Community Records Block Party DVD Premiere
The 4th annual Community Records Block Party, held earlier this year in April, was a distinct – if humble – success for the young, ambitious, hard-boiled New Orleans DIY label. Expanding on previous years’ hallmarks of conscientious bohemian family fun anchored by their own stable of punk, ska and hardcore bands, 2011 saw larger crowd [...]
Live Picks: 11.24.2011 – 11.30.2011
11.26: The Rooks + The Switchers + Sharks’ Teeth + Dominique LeJeune – The Big Top
If you’ve been to The Big Top in the last five years, the Lower Central City gallery associated with the non-profit arts education organization 3 Ring Circus Productions, there is a good chance it was for a Community Records organized or affiliated event; and this weekend Community Records will stage an event to benefit the center itself. It will be headlined by The Rooks, a punk power-trio starring label co-founder Greg Rodrigue, Lollies’ guitarist Brian Pretus and Rob Landry of Marathon on drums. The bill also includes ska-core crooners The Switchers and solo performances from math-folk songstress Dominique LeJeune and Tyler Schurlock of Sun Hotel, under the guise of his prolific space drone side project Sharks’ Teeth.
Photoset // The Lollies + Stuck Lucky + The Rooks: 10.01.2011
The Lollies + Stuck Lucky + The Rooks performing at Bank Street Bar on October 1, 2011
