Preview // Creepy Fest 2012
Though the subversives behind local b-movie film aficionado group Terror Optics Studios and its off-shoot horrorcore label Sheer Terror Records aren’t the type one would expect to hear bragging about, or even taking serious notice of, any measure of success, it shouldn’t be any surprise that the ultra-DIY punk festival known as Creepy Fest has [...]
Brass Bed: 11.11.2011
You’d think that with their admirable success over the past three years, Brass Bed would be just a little complacent with themselves. However, even after having had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the likes of indie big wigs The Walkmen and releasing last year’s shimmering chamber pop epic, Melt White, the on-stage demeanor [...]
Photoset // Native America + Brass Bed + High In One Eye: 11.11.2011
Native America + Brass Bed + High In One Eye performing at Saturn Bar on November 11, 2011 for Chinquapin Records’ “Chindig 02″
Happy Talk Band Joins Alex McMurray’s Saturn Bar Residency
Alex McMurray isn’t just one of the most talented guitarists in New Orleans, he’s also one of the most hard-working. At any given time, McMurray is a card-carrying member of as many as nine bands: he shares the stage with Jonathan Freilich in folk-duo The Tom Paines, Washboard Chaz and sousaphonist Matt Perrine join him [...]
Foburg, Day 3: 03.13.2011
If on Friday and Saturday there was a youthful urge to run around Frenchman Street from bar to bar, seeing every band in sight without any regard for breaking sweats or spilling beers, that urge was comfortably behind us by Sunday. Nevertheless, in the darkly lit barrooms of St. Claude Avenue, Sunday evening held a [...]
Preview // Foburg, Day 3: 03.13.2011
Toro Y Moi + Small Black + Cults + Sun Airway + Cloud Nothings – Saturn Bar
Two independent, non-Foburg-affiliated concerts featuring some of the most up-and-coming names in indie were scheduled for March 13. Everybody, including the guys at Deft Jams, said, “Why not just combine the shows.” The result is an impressive showcase that not just trumps most of the weekend’s Foburg competition but stands to be one of the best indie and/or electronica concerts [...]
Photoset // Big Rock Candy Mountain + Red River + Big History: 02.11.2011
Big Rock Candy Mountain + Red River + Big History performing at Saturn Bar on February 11, 2011
Ra Ra Riot and Das Racist to headline 2011 Foburg
Last year, the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective took over Frenchman Street on the weekend before SXSW for their inaugural Foburg Music Festival. The three day event was largely a showcase of local and regional talent, but it also provided national touring acts headed to Austin a good excuse to cool their heels in [...]
