This Saturday, Record Raid, New Orleans’ local record fair, is returning to Siberia and the Hi-Ho Lounge and expanding across the street to the All-Ways Lounge. “It’s essentially just a big music flea market,” says organizer Hunter King about the Record Raid. “It’s full of music media: vinyl, CDs, 45s, and cassettes. We’ve got a [...]
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The Lost Bayou Ramblers’ Bastille Day
November 1, 2011 – 12:07 am
The Lost Bayou Ramblers will perform with former Violent Femmes front man Gordon Gano at the Voodoo Experience on Saturday, October 29, and the night before they’ll throw a single release party at d.b.a. The evening’s festivities will celebrate the release of a 12-inch vinyl single “Bastille,” a track from the band’s upcoming Mammoth Waltz. [...]
Lost Bayou Ramblers: Rock en Français
October 1, 2011 – 12:07 am
When Louis Michot and the Lost Bayou Ramblers set up shop to record their upcoming release, Mammoth Waltz, at Dockside Studios, he did what any good bandleader would naturally do: stock up on supplies. And one night he was struck with what he immediately recognized as a great idea: Why not ask the brewer of [...]
New Sun Hotel Track “Talks”: Free Download
August 26, 2011 – 12:21 pm
Last year, Sun Hotel released one of 2010′s better local indie rock records, Coast, which one can still hear emanating from the dark, danky recesses of the OffBeat offices to this day. In October, the Loyola quartet will return with a new EP, Gifts; they’re even taking pre-orders for vinyl copies already. “Talks” will be [...]
Record Raid Brings Vinyl Sellers + More to Downtown
July 22, 2011 – 3:27 am
On Saturday, July 23, the New Orleans Record raid will return for its Summer installment. This time around the Raid will be held in the Marigny at both the Hi-Ho Lounge and Siberia. Twenty-something vendors, made up of public and private sellers from various locations across the country, will gather to trade and sell second-hand [...]
Ring the Alarm: Spring Record Raid at Tulane Saturday
March 24, 2011 – 2:36 pm
With the addition of the Euclid Records store in the Bywater this past fall, the vinyl record market in New Orleans is at its strongest post-K, with other stores Louisiana Music Factory, Domino Sound Record Shack, Skully’z, Jim Russell Records, the Mushroom, and Peaches still going strong, and artists from Galactic and Preservation Hall to [...]
Bipolaroid, Illusion Fields (Independent)
December 1, 2010 – 12:58 am
Bipolaroid has always been a lot less psychedelic than advertised. Until now. Previously a mishmash of psychedelic surface signifiers borrowed from Syd Barrett, the band now sounds seriously disorienting on Illusion Fields. Multiple simultaneous blues guitars make a big interesting mess around lead singer Ben Glover’s hard to discern, droning nasal slur—a very wasted-sounding voice. [...]
Preservation Hall, Waits Release a New 78
November 17, 2010 – 5:27 am
In 1947, the great banjoist Danny Barker recorded the Mardi Gras Indian chants “Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing” and “Corrine Died on the Battlefield,” releasing them on 78 several years later. This Friday, November 19, Preservation Hall will release a modern re-imagining of that record, this time performed by Tom Waits and the [...]
Ponderosa Stomp Festivities Begin with the Drop of A Hip Tonight
September 23, 2010 – 1:42 pm
The 2010 Ponderosa Stomp music festival officially begins tonight with the Hip Drop party at d.b.a. Curated by DJs Soul Sister and Brice Nice, the night features 10 top-of-the-line DJs and record collectors playing all (rarer than rare) 45s. Brice Nice is the only New Orleans DJ—the rest range from Portland, Oregon to New York [...]
