Lafayette rock band GIVERS has been one of this year’s buzz bands since their debut album, In Light, was released earlier this year. They were the cover story of our November issue, and they are nominees for Rock Band of the Year, Rock Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and Album of the [...]
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GIVERS Remain in Light
November 1, 2011 – 12:14 am
I’m going for the drugged-out look because we’re a pop band.” Tiffany Lamson is leaning against a door frame in Dockside Studio’s control room looking wan and disaffected as she and the rest of GIVERS pose for photos. She’s playing, but not entirely. Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian wrote of the band’s debut, In Light, [...]
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles Celebrates Cajun and Creole Culture on the Weekend
October 13, 2011 – 3:18 pm
Since 1972, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has been serving up the best of Cajun culture to an amassing fan base. The annual festival, held in Lafayette’s Girard Park, delivers a zestful combination of food, crafts and Cajun music that ranges from Cajun giant Steve Riley to Creole traditionalist Joe Hall to the fiery zydeco-rock of [...]
YouTube du Jour: GIVERS’ “Meantime”
August 31, 2011 – 10:03 am
Lafayette’s GIVERS have a brand new video out for “Meantime” from this summer’s In Light. Since the album’s release, the band spent much of the summer touring the United Kingdom, recently returning only to start a United States tour on August 19. While in London, the group also recorded an acoustic version of “Meantime” for [...]
GIVERS, In Light (Glassnote Records)
August 1, 2011 – 12:59 am
It’s surprising that a band like Lafayette’s GIVERS (their all-caps) didn’t happen sooner. In a time when major music festivals have the musical breadth of most people’s iTunes file, sooner or later somebody had to hear the variety of music at Festival International (in the band’s case) and try to incorporate as much of it [...]
YouTube du Jour: GIVERS
June 30, 2011 – 10:56 am
In Light, the debut album from Lafayette’s GIVERS (their all-caps), is out now, produced by Ben Allen, who also produced Animal Collective and Deerhunter). Here’s the brand-new music video for their debut single, the joyful “Up Up Up,” a song that those who’ve seen the band live likely already have stuck in their heads. They [...]
Video du Jour: GIVERS
June 14, 2011 – 11:52 am
Last night, Lafayette indie pop band GIVERS made their television debut, performing “Up, Up, Up” on talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The band is currently promoting their first full-length album, In Light, released last Tuesday on Glassnote Records (best known for two other artists on its roster: Mumford & Sons and Phoenix). GIVERS [...]
Chubby Carrier: French Quarter Fest Focus
April 1, 2011 – 12:22 am
A Grammy Award has unexpected perks. Just ask Chubby Carrier, winner of this year’s Grammy for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for his CD, Zydeco Junkie. Carrier, who lives just outside of Lafayette, will soon get a key to the city. He’s already received a certificate of recognition from the Louisiana House of Representatives. [...]
Blister in Le Soleil: The Lost Bayou Ramblers and Gordon Gano
April 1, 2011 – 12:11 am
I still wasn’t convinced Gordon Gano, singer of my favorite band of my youth, Violent Femmes, was really going to play with my favorite Cajun group, Lost Bayou Ramblers, until the fiddles started playing the “Blister in the Sun” riff right there before me at the Blue Moon in Lafayette. Those quarter-century-old folk-punk tunes mix [...]
Keb’ Mo’, Balkan Beat Box, Locos Por Juana Headline Festival International
February 11, 2011 – 5:25 pm
Today Lafayette’s Festival International announced its lineup with blues guitarist Keb’ Mo’, Remesha Master Drummers of Burundi, Balkan Beat Box, Locos Por Juana and Portland, Oregon’s sideshow-like March Fourth Marching Band atop the bill. Festival International takes place April 27-May 1–the first weekend of Jazz Fest–and is free at a host of sites in downtown [...]
