Austin’s hyper-literate indie rockers Okkervil River are perhaps best known for their critically acclaimed concept albums Black Sheep Boy, The Stage Names and The Stand Ins. The Will Sheff-fronted band has spent the past year recording and producing fellow Austinite Roky Erikson’s first new album in 14 years as well as putting out a new [...]
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Wye Oak at Tipitina’s September 16
September 1, 2011 – 12:22 am
Wye Oak, the Baltimore indie rock duo named for a 460-year old tree in their home state of Maryland, give off an appropriate balance of rooted strength and breezy pliability. They began as stylistic seedlings from a lineage of other bands, the product of, say, the Police’s Ghost in the Machine passed down through Yo [...]
Warehouse Fest 2010 Saturday
October 13, 2010 – 12:24 pm
After writing the song “As the River Cries” for the BP Oil Spill benefit album Give to the Gulf, Volume 2, Coleman Jernigan decided that he wanted to use music to help further with the Spill recovery efforts. “I wanted to start something that could become an annual way to help local organizations in need,” [...]
Local Natives Discover the Value of Change
October 11, 2010 – 2:04 pm
Success has come quickly to the Los Angeles-based indie rock band the Local Natives, but not as quickly as it may seem at first glance. Although the band released its debut album, Gorilla Manor, on February 16 of this year in the US, the five-piece group has been playing together, in some shape or form, [...]
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 [...]
YouTube du Jour: Big History
August 31, 2010 – 11:23 am
Big History has yet to play a gig—it makes its live debut September 18 at Carrollton Station opening for Big Rock Candy Mountain—but musically and visually, this animated video by drummer Bret Bohnet for “All at Once” reflects a distinctive, mature artistic personality.
YouTube du Jour: Rotary Downs
August 27, 2010 – 9:30 am
Rotary Downs plays Le Bon Temps Roule. This hilarious video for “Djinni Stomp” goes back to the band’s Chained to the Chariot album.
Could You Love True Womanhood?
July 5, 2010 – 9:44 am
Indie rock band True Womanhood from Washington, D.C. is trying to set up a tour and is looking for a house party or a gig in a non-traditional venue in New Orleans. Could you host that gig? Here’s some music to help you decide:
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, [...]
A Family Affair
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
When Canadian indie rock sisters Tegan and Sara started talking about where to write their new album in 2008, New Orleans came up. Right after Hurricane Katrina, Sara Quin came to New Orleans during a break from touring. “Sara had this really amazing experience,” Tegan Quin says. “She said, ‘The people there are amazing, and [...]
