Indie rockers Big Rock Candy Mountain scored big this season. The New Orleans outfit’s surging prog-pop single, “Rocketship,” landed on the soundtrack to two of video game developer 2K Sports’ recent titles: NHL 2K11 and NBA 2K11. To date, the latter title, whose cover features NBA icon Michael Jordan, has sold over 4 million units [...]
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Foburg Festival Schedule Released
February 24, 2011 – 1:33 pm
The second annual Foburg Music Festival kicks off the weekend after Mardi Gras, March 11-13. Scheduled the weekend before South by Southwest in Austin takes place, it catches many indie artists on their way to Texas, with headliners this year including Das Racist, Ra Ra Riot, The Hood Internet, Toro y Moi, T-Bird and the [...]
Foburg Tickets On Sale Now
February 17, 2011 – 5:05 pm
For years, New Orleans has been an indirect beneficiary of Austin’s South by Southwest as bands that might skip the city in other circumstances schedule it on their way to or from the international music festival and conference. To capitalize on this traffic, last year the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective started Foburg, a music [...]
Lineup Announcements: Foburg and Dear New Orleans
February 3, 2011 – 1:13 pm
Foburg, the indie rock festival started by the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective, has its lineup up now, and Ra Ra Riot and Das Racist top the bill. The Frenchmen Street festival takes place March 11-13. Also, Air Traffic Control is bringing yet another group of musicians to New Orleans for an activism workshop that [...]
Vox and the Hound: Vox on the Run
September 1, 2010 – 12:06 am
Leo DeJesus can’t limit himself to the sidelines. Vox and the Hound started as yet another project for the former front man of the City Life and member of MyNameIsJohnMichael. He needed an outlet for the songs he was writing that weren’t right for MyNameIsJohnMichael but that were too good to pass up. He recruited [...]
Bounce, Rock Mash-Up Live Friday
May 7, 2010 – 11:23 am
During this year’s inaugural Foburg Festival, bounce artists Partners-n-Crime came onstage with indie band Big Rock Candy Mountain to perform “N.O. Block Party.” Less than a month later, the two bands once again shared a stage, that time in Austin, Texas as part of the Louisiana Party in Brush Square Park during SXSW. Each time, [...]
YouTube du Jour: The Revivalists
March 12, 2010 – 10:06 am
On Saturday night, the Revivalists will play a CD-release party for their new album, Vital Signs, at the Blue Nile as part of Foburg. Here they are at One Eyed Jacks playing “Concrete (Fish Out of Water).”
Foburg Music Festival Starts Today
March 12, 2010 – 3:23 am
New Orleans hasn’t always been thought of as a good rock town. Foburg aims to address that. This weekend, the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective (NOIR) will launch the 3-day music festival spotlighting over 100 area indie bands and touring artists (some as far as Seattle) on the road to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, [...]
Help Send Bounce to Austin
March 10, 2010 – 10:23 am
Journalist Alison Fensterstock and former Circle Bar manager Lefty Parker have arranged a New Orleans bounce showcase in Austin during SXSW next week. Unfortunately, bands performing at SXSW do so essentially at their own expense; in this case, that has meant that they’ve had to raise the money to take DJ Jubilee, Ms. Tee, Partners-N-Crime, [...]
Foburg Music Festival: Spelling Doesn’t Matter
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective, more commonly known as the NOIR Collective, has been cultivating and supporting local indie rock for the past two years. They’ve created sampler CDs and organized mini-music fests, but most importantly, they’ve been knitting together the seemingly disparate indie scenes throughout the city—Tulane, Loyola, Marigny, Mid-City—and they’re about to [...]
