Posts Tagged ‘Dumpstaphunk’
Rooster Walk 2013: Leftover Salmon, Dumpstaphunk, Kung Fu and More
Photo via Blue Mountain FB Page The 5th annual Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival is set to go down once again in Martinsville, VA over Memorial Day weekend in the scenic rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The festival will take place at the Blue Mountain Festival Grounds and... more
Dumpstaphunk To Play Special Meters Set Tonight @ Wanee Festival
Dumpstaphunk will perform an extra special Meters Tribute set tonight at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL this evening. The band headlines tonight's opening night festivities with a set from 10:45pm-1:00am. This comes nearly a year after Ivan Neville's band played a full set at Tipitina's with entire The... more
OUTSIDE LANDS 2013: Paul McCartney, NIN, RHCP, Phoenix, Gary Clark Jr. & More
Outside Lands just announced the lineup for their sixth annual Music & Arts gathering in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (August 9-11) and it's a stellar and diverse list. Paul McCartney will headline along with the newly configured Nine Inch Nails, the Chili Peppers, who just came off a... more
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Dumpstaphunk @ Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA 4/6/13
WHO: Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk plus T.E.N. / Perro Bravo / Quickie Mart WHERE: The Roxy Theatre @ 9009 West Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA WHEN: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 8:00 pm TICKET LINK: PURCHASE TIX HOW TO ENTER TO WIN TIX: See below! One of the funkiest touring forces on the planet... more
CONCERT RECAP: Dragon Smoke @ The Mint LA 12/12/12
Certain celestial alignments skip decades, if not lifetimes, or at a minimum, involve covering great distances at greater expense. Think solar eclipses, Comet Hale-Bopp or if you get around, the aurora. Even then, there is the unexpected cloud cover that can scotch the most anticipated and well-planned events. While the... more
PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Bear Creek 2012 Sunday (Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk & New Mastersounds)
Ali & Mike Kerr covered the grounds extensively to capture a motherlode of footage and photos at this year's Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival in Live Oak, FL. We'll start the BCMF coverage roll out at the festival's end, with coverage from Sunday's Lettuce, New Mastersounds and Dumpstaphunk sets.... more
CONCERT RECAP: HeadCount Sandy Benefit @ Highline Ballroom 11/5/12
Photo Credit: Shirzad Khusrokhan Half way through shaking my money maker on stage with Dumpstaphunk last night, I had two epiphanies. The first was that I should really hit the gym more, because dancing that hard for more than two minutes is a workout. The second was that these dudes rock.... more
RECAP / PHOTOS: Equifunk 2012, The All-Inclusive Music Festival
Equifunk was a funkin' blast! What a way to design a music festival! From the moment of arrival people settled in to their sleep-away/summercamp style bunks and began to get funky, this festival was so well set up! You had beer/drinks when you wanted it, music all the time, great... more
REVIEW: Dumpstaphunk, Zigaboo Modeliste @ New Parish Music Hall, Oakland 8/4/12
Bay Area fans of New Orleans funk were in for a treat on Saturday night as the five-headed behemoth of booty shaking known as Dumpstaphunk came rolling through town for their first ever gig in Oakland. Their destination: The New Parish, a club that opened its door less than two... more
LMB LA: The Neville Brothers Bid Farewell to L.A. this week at the Hollywood Bowl
WHO: The Neville Brothers with Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and Roddie Romero WHERE: The Hollywood Bowl (how to get there) WHEN: Wednesday, August 1st at 8 p.m. TICKETS: $1-134 (PURCHASE) There can only be one first family of funk and once this train stops rolling, we'll be left to cherish the memories... more
Bonnaroo 2012: Highlights from Day Two (Radiohead, The Word, The Soul Rebels)
And so it continued, with a crisp slice-of-pie sky and an urgent push for fun by all the Bonnaroo brethren. After draining a few delicious bottles of water and chowing down on a couple breakfast burritos, we were ready to roll into Centeroo for the ultimate show down of sound.... more
EPIC PREVIEW: 10 Must See Artists @ Bonnaroo 2012
Check out Live Music Blog's 2012 Bonnaroo Playlist (5 HOURS!) It's that time of year when my heart starts to race during random intervals throughout the day and night, propelled by my childishly-expectant subconscious, the season when my adrenal glands swell up like pregnant dinosaurs in humming anticipation for one of... more
Revel in the Bonnaroo 365 “Adventures in Mardi Gras” YouTube Series
I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans. - Mark Twain Adventures In: Mardi Gras was directed by Casey Neistat (HBO’s Neistat Brothers, Nike Make It Count Film, and NY Times Op Ed videos). These mini-docs... more
Jazz Fest 2012: Photos and Videos from Thursday, May 3rd
Had a great first day out there at the Fairgrounds for weekend 2. Photos and videos from Day 1 at Jazz Fest 2012 include Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Rosie Ledet, Silky Sol, Esperanza Spalding, George Porter Jr. and the Runnin’ Pardners and several obligatory stops into the Gospel Tent. Gospel Tent... more
Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup: Radiohead, RHCP, Phish, Bon Iver & Beach Boys
The lineup for Bonnaroo 2012 was just released and features Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, and the Beach Boys all at the top of the artist list for this year's festival. Read on for the full lineup... Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup http://www.bonnaroo.com Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Phish The Beach Boys Featuring Brian... more
NOLA 2012: Recent Live and Studio Recordings From Local Artists
We’re already a month into 2012 and therefore it’s time to take a quick look back at what local artists were up to in January. With such big events as Jam Cruise, Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s 50th Anniversary blowout at Carnegie Hall, the Best of the Beat Awards last weekend,... more
Carnival Kick-Off Party @ Tipitina’s Tonight
Carnival season gets into full-swing this weekend and Tipitina’s is planning a Carnival Kick-Off Party to get a one-night jump on Saturday’s Krewe du Vieux festivities.
2012 Electric Forest Festival Initial Lineup: SCI, Bassnectar, STS9, Thievery Corp, Girl Talk
The initial lineup for the 2012 Electric Forest Festival is out. Resident headliners, the String Cheese Incident, lead the lineup alongside Bassnectar, STS9, Thievery Corporation, Girl Talk, and a bunch of other big names in the jam and electronic space (and just about everything else in between). Check it out... Electric... more
VIDEOS: Dumpstaphunk @ Masquerade Atlanta 11/10/11
Check out Funk It’s videos from Dumpstaphunk’s recent show at Atlanta’s Masquerade.
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 21-27)
This is a week to give thanks. Thanks to family, friends, good health, good food, and.....multi-night runs in NYC! Yep, for some reason, this week in NYC shows seems to be the week of two- and three-night stands including Allen Toussaint, the Cure, moe., M83 and Robert Randolph & the... more
VIDEO: 2011 Bear Creek Music Festival Mashup
Randy over at Funk It! does some amazing videography work and this might be his best yet – a 16-minute video that manages to blow through 26 different performances from the 2011 Bear Creek Music Festival. Apparently Mr. Funk It managed to capture over 14 hours of footage from the... more
PHOTO / HIGHLIGHTS: Day Two @ Voodoo Experience 2011
However, Saturday was when the full realization hit that this fest really was about as grab bag as a musical gathering can be – headed up by the fact that the SoCal Punk Retrospective was going down (out of the three bands, X was the strongest, delivering an impressive evening... more
PHOTOS / HIGHLIGHTS: Day One @ Voodoo Experience 2011
How many more years will we be able to see a band as heavy, psychedelic and powerful as Soundgarden headline a major music festival? If the days of this kind of rock music still having enough popularity and relevance are waning, I’m glad I got a chance to see it... more
Bear Creek 2011 Schedule Posted
I am very excited to be making my first trek down to Live Oak Florida in less than 3 weeks for the Bear Creek Music Festival, and the anticipation has only increased now that the schedule dropped last week. It's my first time ever flying to a festival, so it'll... more
Must See Sets @ Voodoo Experience 2011
The Original Meters – 6:15 p.m. – Le Flambeau WWOZ Stage The announcement that the Meters would be re-forming for an extra special set at Bonnaroo alongside Dr. John (where they performed his classic album Desitively Bonnaroo) got me hoping that the quintessential funk quartet would have enough fun to get... more
PREVIEW: Great Big Shows Upcoming @ Tip’s
It’s a busy couple weeks at Tipitina’s Uptown, providing ample options for those looking to accent their Voodoo weekend and Halloween festivities with some live music. The big run of shows kicks into gear tonight with the Papa Grows Funk record release party. Tomorrow night, Rebirth Brass Band will be... 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
