Photoset // All People: 08.20.2012
All People performing at The Parish at House Of Blues on August 20, 2012
Live Picks: 08.02.2012 – 08.08.2012
08.04: Dirty Projectors + Wye Oak – House Of Blues
Dirty Projectors and Wye Oak have spent the last few years making some of the most exciting music around, and very few bands treat their material with such brilliant care in a live setting. Thus, Saturday night’s unofficial White Linen Night after party is one of the rare House of Blues events that is truly worth the generally-bemoaned premium heaped upon national tours that stop at Live Nation’s local outpost instead of the myriad independent venue options in the city.
PREMIERE: Two New Live Videos From Coyotes
One of the inherent pitfalls of so closely following a college music scene – especially in a city like New Orleans, where the larger institutes of higher learning are swamped with transplanted thrill-seekers trying the cultural, culinary and musical capitol of the deep south on for size – are the relative doldrums that sweep [...]
Vox and the Hound: 02.25.2012
When a band is as bursting at the seams with diverse and experienced talent as Vox And The Hound, a common and not necessarily unfortunate trope may be to proceed with caution, employing a lowest-common-denominator approach to songwriting that plays to no member’s particular strength at the risk of unleashing a soundclash of incompatible virtuosity. [...]
Photoset // Royal Teeth + King Rey + Vox And The Hound: 02.25.2012
Royal Teeth + King Rey + Vox And The Hound performing at House of Blues on February 25, 2012
Photoset // Dead Confederate + Big Rock Candy Mountain + Sun Hotel: 11.02.2011
Dead Confederate + Big Rock Candy Mountain + Sun Hotel performing at The Parish at House of Blues on November 2, 2011
Photoset // Foster The People + Cults + Reptar: 09.19.2011
Foster The People + Cults + Reptar performing at House of Blues on September 19, 2011
Shpongle presents The Shpongletron Experience: 06.03.2011
My most lasting memory from the 2010 Voodoo Experience is not, as even I may have guessed, the members of My Morning Jacket opening their set with “Wordless Chorus” while dressed as Old Men Time. The image burned into my mind is that of Deadmau5 perched atop an LCD-encrusted polyhedron to the delight of the [...]
Girl Talk: 01.10.2011
I was introduced to Girl Talk, né Gregg Gillis, back in the fall of 2006, when a young lady I met at a dinner party handed me burned CD-R containing Night Ripper, his breakthrough third album. “This CD will change your life,” she said as she dug one of the many copies of the album [...]