Archive for LMB NOLA
PREVIEW: 7 Walkers @ Tipitina’s 10/18/11
7 Walkers make their first stop at Tipitina’s tomorrow night for what will sure be a fun evening on Napoleon Ave. The still new supergroup have popped up a few times in the city since forming last year (including a few songs at JoJo Hermann’s Down On The Bayou III,... more
VIDEOS: Railroad Earth @ House of Blues 10/16/11
Railroad Earth unleashed a saucy Saturday night show at House of Blues this weekend – laying down their signature mix of boot stompin’ string music with the cavernous space-grass freakout that has made them favorites of the genre.
INTERVIEW: Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson
What’s next for UMO? We start our first headline tour straight after our tour with Toro. Then we go to the UK to tour with Foster the People and then play some dates in Spain and France, then straight to Australia and New Zealand for festivals. That will take us to... more
2011 Voodoo Experience Late Nights Schedule
For all of your Voodoo Thursday night pre-parties and after hours needs, check out the schedule below and get to finalizing your weekend plans if you haven’t already. For more info on the shows, click the venue links on the right side of the page. Continue on below for a... more
VIDEO: Bela Fleck & the Flecktones @ House of Blues 10/11/11
Last night Bela Fleck & the Flecktones returned to New Orleans to play House of Blues with a full-on “reunited” original band now featuring Howard Levy in the place that Jeff Coffin had most recently been filling. Here’s a video that just surfaced from the show...
PHOTOS / REVIEW: Toro Y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Bass Drum of Death @ One Eyed Jacks, NOLA 10/10/11
Seeing three young and hungry bands delivering fresh goods to an equally engaged and curious audience was invigorating. There is a burgeoning scene in town that is very much tuned into these great new frequencies, all very wonderful to see, well worth a groggy Tuesday to kick it down in... more
PREVIEW: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones @ House of Blues, NOLA 10/11/11
WHY: The Original lineup of the Flecktones reformed recently for the first time in nearly two decades, putting out the band’s first album of new material in six years with Rocket Science. Piano/harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy (aka “The Man With Two Brains”) steps back into the band, filling the void... more
2011 Voodoo Experience Schedule
Voodoo announced their set times this weekend on Facebook and Twitter pages in real-time, billing the weekend experiment as Virtual Voodoo. If the band was playing at 2:00 pm on Friday, the announcement of the band's time/stage information was made at exactly 2:00 pm on Friday with an accompanying YouTube... more
Voodoo Experience Lineup Release Experience
Voodoo continues this year’s social media experiment, releasing the daily schedules in real-time via their Facebook and Twitter pages. Although the one-at-a-time initial lineup release was met with mixed reviews by fans, people seem to be diggin’ this weekend’s unveiling. It must be noted that the festival is engaging with... more
PHOTOS / VIDEO: North Mississippi All-Stars @ Tipitina’s 10/7/11
The boys from the Mississippi hill country returned once again to one of their favorite venues (even mentioning at one point that NMAS should have a monthly gig at Tip’s – one can dream), continuing to operate as a model of consistency and delivering a lengthy display of instrumental mastery... more
VIDEO: Bonobo @ The Hookah, NOLA 10/6/11
Last night, internationally-acclaimed groove doctor Simon Green brought his Bonobo DJ show to The Hookah, a trendy French Quarter spot down on Decatur Street. It was a cool scene in there and the downtempo, post-party chill mode of Green’s music set a certain unmistakable vibe in the room, as his... more
GIVEAWAY @LMBNOLA: Voodoo Experience 2011 Tickets!
This morning, the Voodoo Experience announced via their facebook page that they would be unveiling the daily schedules on Monday, October 10th. Also on Monday, we will also have our first of THREE giveaway contests and will be rewarding ONE lucky winner with a pair of weekend passes to the... more
PHOTOS: tUnE-yArDs @ One Eyed Jacks, NOLA 10/2/11
On Sunday night, multi-instrumentalist artista Merrill Garbus (better known to most folks as tUnE-yArDs) came to town for a headlining show at One Eyed Jacks. The unusual nature of Garbus’ anti-status quo approach to constructing pop music is alluring and the growing buzz surrounding her live show is littered with... more
Bear Creek 2011 Update: Schedule Posted, Pre-Parties, Costume Theme Nights
The Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival held this November 10 - 13, 2011 at Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL has just released the daily performance schedule as well as additional details about pre-parties, costume theme nights, ticket prices and more. The festival lineup includes Trey Anastasio Band... more
VIDEOS @LMBNOLA: Voodoo Highlight Reel (RHCP, NIN, RATM, BTE, KISS, MGMT & more)
As we await the release of this year’s Voodoo Experience daily grids, here’s a look back at several video highlights from the last eight years of the fest (including a clip from 2005′s Memphis Voodoo Experience). Hopefully it’ll be a nice walk down memory lane to help you get ready... more
PREVIEW @LMBNOLA: Bonobo @ The Hookah 10/6
Bonobo combines his studio wizardry into the live show pretty well, adapting his signature sound into something more attuned to the live stage than the headphones-worthy downtempo grooves you’ll hear on his records. Tickets and more info are available here. Caught the live band show last November at Republic and... more
DRAGON SMOKE: December Shows Announced, Jazz Fest 2011 SBD
The all-New Orleans collaboration known as Dragon Smoke (Robert Mercurio, Stanton Moore, Ivan Neville & Eric Lindell) announced this week a December West Coast tour of a few of California’s NOLA music hotspots. But before they set out on the run, they will be hunkering down in Tipitina’s for a... more
TOUR DATES @LMBNOLA: 7 Walkers
7 Walkers, the revered band featuring legendary drummer and Grateful Dead co-founder Bill Kreutzmann, guitarist Papa Mali, multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard (Willie Nelson, Fastball) and legendary New Orleans bass man George Porter Jr. (The Meters, Funky Meters) today announce a run of fall tour dates that bring them to U.S. points... more
VIDEO PREVIEW: Toro Y Moi and Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ One Eyed Jacks – 10/10/11
Chaz Bundick, better known by the moniker Toro Y Moi, makes his return to New Orleans a week from today seven months after having to cancel his highly-anticipated performance at Saturn Bar as part of this year’s Foburg Fest. The prolific 24-year old multi-instrumentalist/beatsmith has proven his meddle as major... more
PHOTOS / VIDEOS @LMBNOLA: Skrillex @ The Sugar Mill 9/30/11
I consider myself a considerably open-minded and eclectic music consumer with the ability to see the appeal of just about anything. Here are a few observations and things that I liked about last night: while I found the music mostly offensive to my ears, the corporeal energy in the room... more
PREVIEW @LMBNOLA: tUnE-yArDs @ One Eyed Jacks 10/2/11
WTUL is killin’ it these days with their select show promotions, helping bring a SOLD OUT Explosions in the Sky to Tipitina’s on Wednesday and closing down the week with the highly-buzzed about tUnE-yArDs at One Eyed Jacks, one of the more unique bands to come out of the indie... more
REVIEW / PHOTOS / VIDEO: Explosions in the Sky @ Tipitina’s 9/28/11
On a stormy Wednesday night, Texas space rockers Explosions in the Sky washed every molecule of space in 501 Napoleon with riff squalls, overflowing the building with ambitious, montage-y triple guitar rock music. I moved around a fair bit given the somewhat short set (75 minutes or so) and never... more
PREVIEW @LMBNOLA: 2011 Bear Creek Festival Lineup & Videos
Set in perhaps the finest natural music venue in all the South land a mere 463 miles from New Orleans, the Bear Creek Festival rolled out it’s lineup a couple months ago and as fall grows near, the annual Suwannee funk fest is now less than three months away. With... more
PREVIEW @LMBNOLA: Skrillex Mothership Tour Drops Down Friday @ The Sugar Mill
Hailed as the leader of “The New Rave Generation” on the cover of this month’s issue of SPIN magazine, SKRILLEX will be in New Orleans on Friday as part of his ultra-ambitious Mothership Tour for a show at The Sugar Mill. This latest tour continues the huge momentum that has... more
PREVIEW @LMBNOLA: The 2011 Gretna Heritage Festival – Oct. 7th-9th
Full schedule and set times can be found here. A great weekend of music on the Westbank is now only a couple weeks away. Gretna Fest has long flown under the radar of New Orleans’ bigger festivals, but they continue to book great local acts year after year. Tickets... more
PHOTOS @LMBNOLA: Matt Nathanson @ House of Blues 9/25/11
Bay Area music lifer Matt Nathanson was in New Orleans Sunday night following the Saints victory over the Houston Texans to play before a celebratory local crowd down on Decatur Street in the main hall at the House of Blues. Continue on for a full gallery of shots from Julia... more
@LMBNOLA: Explosions in the Sky & Wye Oak @ Tipitina’s 9/28/11
This is one of the shows of the year if you are into experimental, dramatic rock music. For what is sure to be one of the most spectacular and bitingly intense performances to ever unfold inside the former juice shop/brothel/gym, Explosions in the Sky will be blowing the gaskets out... more
@LMBNOLA: Garage A Trois @ One Eyed Jacks 9/23/11
Garage A Trois took the stage at One Eyed Jacks last night rockin’ matching gray Puma track suits, setting the tone for the full-fledged weirdness that would ensue. One of the music universe’s more intriguing collaborations, Garage a Trois meshes the musical stylings of four immensely talented musicians into something... more
@LMBNOLA: Voodoo Experience 2011 Late-Night Shows
Getting in a night early? City and Colour is playing the official official Voodoo kickoff party at House of Blues on Thursday night (October 27th) and Bassnectar’s playing The Sugar Mill. Haven’t had enough by the time the final band finishes up on Sunday? Surely there’ll be something to entertain... more
@LMBNOLA: Voodoo Experience 2011: The Weird, The Awesome & The Macabre
Regardless of your thoughts on this year’s lineup, to the festival’s credit, the Voodoo Experience always does a bang-up job of compiling one of the most unique, wholly eccentric and random yearly lineups of any American festival. No one outside of the Rehage camp could’ve envisioned this sorta lineup and... more
@LMBNOLA: The Head and the Heart @ One Eyed Jacks 9/20/11
After setting a nice tone on Sunday in Austin before a sizeable crowd, The Head and the Heart routed on through the Crescent City on Tuesday night for a stop at One Eyed Jacks in support of their excellent self-titled album out on the legendary imprint Sub Pop Records.... more
