Music & Nightlife
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
OMG: Justin Bieber is coming to New Orleans
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Beliebers rejoice: the pop star stops in New Orleans on Jan. 15 for a concert at the New Orleans Arena. Tickets go on sale June 2 at 10 a.m., and I'm pretty sure they will sell out quickly.
Fellow Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, who is responsible for quite possibly the best pop song of 2012, "Call Me Maybe," opens.
Discovered on YouTube, Bieber gained legions of screaming, Twitter-using teenage fans (take caution before clicking on any Bieber-related Twitter hashtag) through his 2009 debut single "One Time" and the follow-up "Baby." His new album Believe, featuring the decidedly more grown-up single "Boyfriend" that's reminiscent of former teen idol Justin Timberlake's solo music, comes out June 19. He's also ditched the swoop-bang hairdo that became an Internet meme.
Check out the video for "Boyfriend" below.
Via MTV
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A Divine day indeed: scenes from Sunday’s second line parade
Posted by Red Cotton on Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Baby when I tell yoooooou! That second line on Sunday was EVERYTHING!
The Divine Ladies annual parade is guaranteed to be EPIC for several reasons:
(more below the jump!)
Sunday, May 20, 2012
TWO! Second Lines today: Zulus and Divine Ladies
Posted by Red Cotton on Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Divine Ladies Uptown. Zulus downtown. You can have whatever you liiiiiike!
(Divine Ladies route here. Zulu parade route below the jump!)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Three important facts about American Idol's Joshua Ledet
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:08 PM
After making it to the top three in the singing competition, Westlake, La. native Joshua Ledet was eliminated from last night's American Idol. The 20-year-old throwback crooner must have been a popular contestant, because now teenagers on the Internet are yelling about how the elimination process is clearly rigged (controversy among viewers about the show's viewer controlled voting process has existed since the beginning).
Let us pay tribute to Ledet with the scholarly journal Us Weekly, who earlier this week sent over a press release including 25 facts about the remaining Idol contestants. Here are three important things to know about Ledet:
“I’m terrified of feathers.”
“I just recently found out that unicorns weren’t real.”
“I once fell asleep on a roller coaster.”
Good thing he chose singing, and not unicorn biology or pillow-making, as a vocation.
Sunday: Divine Ladies second line parade 1-5pm
Posted by Red Cotton on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:03 AM
(Divine route details after the jump!)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Voodoo Music Experience: Campout — and glampout — info
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:55 PM
- VOODOO MUSIC EXPERIENCE
The inaugural camping experience will offer festival goers the chance to sleep under the stars amidst two hundred year old oak trees, picturesque lagoons and waterways of New Orleans’ historic City Park and located just steps away from the Voodoo entrance. Camping options range from general tent camping with basic amenities to a luxurious all-encompassing camping experience, where concertgoers can arrive to move-in-ready 10×13 safari style tents complete with cots, bedding and pillows along with exclusive Artist Access throughout the Voodoo site.
Yes, there are rules. Lots of them.
Prices are all over the place, and do not include Voodoo admission (you'll need to purchase a three-day pass in addition to camping fees). A basic campsite for two people is $150 and gets you a 12'x12' square of ground; you pretty much do the rest, though "showers, food and beverage vendors, special activities, 24 hour security and medical services will be available."
The LOA big-shot glamping pass gets you some swank in your accommodations for $1,500. Jeez, you could get three nights at the Ritz for less. Anyway:
Guests at the LOA Grand will sleep in comfort and enjoy unparalleled backstage access throughout the weekend with 2 Artists Passes. Upon arrival you will receive a ready to go fully pitched 10 x 13 safari style tent with 2 cots and bedding just steps away from and overlooking the Voodoo site. You’ll enjoy a water view plus complimentary breakfast, late night snacks, a reserved parking space conveniently located near the LOA Grand site, 24 hour security & medical services, upgraded restrooms, showers, concierge services and more. All campers must be 18+.
Plus there will be electrical outlets in every LOA tent, so let that iPhone run down without worries. Or have your concierge recharge it.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Green Day to headline 2012 Voodoo Fest
Posted by Alex Woodward on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM
- JULIE GARDNER
Festival organizers announced the 2012 Voodoo Experience preliminary lineup today. Heading the bill is Neil Young & Crazy Horse and Green Day. Other additions include Skrillex, Justice, Tomahawk, Say Anything, Bootsy Collins, Gary Clark Jr., Awolnation and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Neil Young last appeared in New Orleans at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with a showstopping performance that ended with The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and a deluge of rain. Young will perform with Crazy Horse, and the band is releasing Americana on June 5, their first album together in nine years, which revisits classic American folk music. Preview the album here.
Green Day last performed in New Orleans in 2009 during its 21st Century Breakdown tour and was also at the 2004 Voodoo, which featured a killer lineup of Beastie Boys, The Pixies and Sonic Youth.
Voodoo also announced on-site camping at City Park for the fest, a la Bonnaroo. A press release says "the inaugural camping experience will offer festival goers the chance to sleep under the stars amidst two hundred year old oak trees, picturesque lagoons and waterways of New Orleans’ historic City Park and located just steps away from the entrance to the annual Halloween weekend music celebration."
Campers can use general camping amenities or upgrade to a "luxurious, all-encompassing camping experience" with safari tents, cots, pillows, bedding and VIP access.
Voodoo is Oct. 26-28 at City Park. Tickets to the festival are available online; a three-day general admission pass is $175 and the Loa VIP pass is $500.
Watch: Galactic with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh "Move Fast"
Posted by Alex Woodward on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM
New Orleans funk outfit Galactic released Carnivale Electricos on Mardi Gras — an album idea the band has been sitting on a couple years but finally arranged, merging Carnival and regional music from its global traditions, this year. When I talked with keyboardist Rich Vogel before its release, I wrote that "the band looked to the Carnival world — from the baile funk of Rio de Janeiro to bounce beats blasting from local parking lots, and the places in between — to weave new elements into Galactic's frequently altered fabric — updated as New Orleans' music and cultural landscape adjusts its palate."
"What we didn't want to do was 'Galactic plays Latin.' ... We knew that was absolutely not the way we wanted to go," Vogel said. "It was more about, 'Let's try and bring some of these artists into our world and what we do, and see if them doing what they do and us doing what we do makes an interesting result.'"
Bounce music and hip-hop can't be ignored. They band has messed around with it, bringing artists like Big Freedia into their stage ensemble, but it committed two tracks on their latest LP to distinctly New Orleans hip-hop and bounce. "Move Fast," with legendary MC Mystikal and producer Mannie Fresh, is the album's latest single. You'll hear some familiar beats in the mix with the band's decidedly low-key funk and fat brass.
Video below the jump.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sunday: Original Big 7 second line parade 1-5pm
Posted by Red Cotton on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:00 PM
(second line route via Indi CNNDoll Sever - see below)
Listen: Gambit's free music Friday
Posted by Alex Woodward on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Above, watch the Stooges Brass Band perform "We Make 'Em Say Ooo" live in the studio (courtesy of Red Bull). From the same session, here's "Why," featuring Mannie Fresh.
The Chinquapin Records family has many branches, twisting and contorting from one band to the next, and at the end or beginning of one (or several) is Habitat, which released an EP available for free download, here. The trio's sunny, sometimes frantic guitars do battle over washes of pummeling drums in offbeat pop songs.
Also under the Chinquapin umbrella is Choi Wolf, who resurrect, and obliterate, irreverent hardcore punk in brief spurts (live, the band clocks in its sets at around 10 minutes, going through the arc of silly, urgent speed freaks to sweaty, defeated casualties of their own doing). The band's Fluffy is available here. (The band also performs 7 p.m. tonight at The Maze rehearsal space at Thalia and South Rendon streets.)
Louisiana's reigning warlords Eyehategod perform 10 p.m. tonight at One Eyed Jacks. Here's what that will probably look like.
Watch the latest video (for "Fast Cars," a slow song with no cars) from New Orleans MC Curren$y. His The Stoned Immaculate is out June 5. Stream that track and "What It Look Like" (featuring Wale) here.
More music under the jump.
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