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Dirty Bourbon River Show album release at Blue Nile

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

Sat. May 25 | The Dirty Bourbon River Show mixes gypsy jazz, funky brass and rock into its repertoire.…

Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

May 21-25 | The nonprofit chamber music society spreads its wings in 2013, holding an intimate "backstage" artist conversation with WWNO-FM's Gwen Thompkins, a nocturnal Steve Reich and J. S. Bach double-header, a temporal mentors-and-masters showcase and a gala finale scored by Mozart, Ravel and Brahms. Visit www.birdfootcmf.org for performers, venues and show times.

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Preview: The Music Tapes

Noah Bonaparte Pais — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais on what to expect from the band coming to Howlin' Wolf May 21 by Noah Bonaparte Pais In winter 2011, to celebrate their first new music in three years, Julian Koster, Robbie Cucchiaro and friends staged the Lullaby Tour, a three-month special delivery of The Music Tapes' Purim's Shadows EP to more than 200 homes across the country, from Mountain Home, Ark., to the band's own home base in Athens, Ga. It was a customized vehicle for the enchanting, personal Purim, the 17 minutes of which were less an album than a long-form status update for the former Elephant 6 recording savant and wayward satellite: The record's fourth track, "4 (Jeff, Jill, and Julian Serenade Rudy on the Beach at Nantasket)," is 27 field-captured seconds of Koster, Jill Carnes and Neutral Milk Hotelier Jeff Mangum doing just that, while its belted-banjo closer "Nantasket" — the Tapes' best composition to date — could have been plucked from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea's overgrown, evergreen tree. Koster's bowed saw lent that 1998 classic much of its unearthly quiver, so it's only natural that the recently resurfaced Mangum haunts the Tapes' 2012 audio curio Mary's Voice (Merge), both literally (his liner-note contributions include turntable manipulation and "chair") and otherwise ("Takeshi and Elijah" shores up "Nantasket" with a dusty-room ode seemingly sung directly to Mangum).…

The 19 Fund benefit

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

Thu. May 23 | Donald Harrison Jr.'s Congo Square Nation, Hot 8 Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, the Revivalists, Bonerama and others headline a benefit for the victims of the shooting at the Mothers' Day second line.…

!!! at Tipitina's

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 24 | The unpronounceable punky dance-funk outfit — most commonly dubbed "Chk Chk Chk" — explodes past its gimmicky namesake with its eccentric discotheque, most recently on April's THR!!!LER (Warp).…

Ola Podrida at Circle Bar

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 24 | David Wingo is best known for his evocative film scores for David Gordon Green and Jeff Nichols (most recently Mud), but his band Ola Podrida is cinematic in its own way.…

Preview: Kylesa

Noah Bonaparte Pais — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais on the "gateway metal" band from Savannah, Ga. by Noah Bonaparte Pais Kylesa, like its Savannah, Ga., brethren Black Tusk and Baroness, is perfect gateway metal: heavy enough to qualify, varied enough to keep both headbangers and nodders involved and weird enough for everyone else to give a damn. Thanks to ever-changing personnel as much as shifting inspiration — with two percussionists, three vocalists (one female) and former members now outnumbering current ones — each recent album makes a different entry point.…

Partners-N-Crime with Cheeky Blakk at Tipitina's

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 17 | This veritable Mount Rushmore of bounce – party pumpers PNC and hustle queen Cheeky Blakk – comes alive with the Big Easy Bounce Band, a no-net sample generator.…

Gal Holiday at the Big Top Gallery

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 17 | Honky Tonk Revue bandleader Gal Holiday (Set Two) guests at Friday Night Music Camp, a family-friendly happy hour featuring all-ages art projects and drink specials.…

Kelcy Mae at Chickie Wah Wah

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 17 | Singer/songwriter Kelcy Mae releases her EP The Fire.…

Other Places at The Dryades Theatre

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri.-Sun. May 17-25 | Four Humours stages Harold Pinter's collection of darkly comic one-act plays, each about strangely alienated characters.…

Father John Misty at One Eyed Jacks

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Thu. May 9 | Former Fleet Fox J. Tillman is hilarious on record — "I'm writing a novel/ Because it's never been done before," goes 2012 L.A. takedown Fear Fun (Sub Pop) — but his two shows here in the past year featured some of the best between-song banter New Orleans has ever heard.…

Big K.R.I.T. at The Howlin' Wolf

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri. May 10 | Meridian, Miss. native Justin Scott crushed the mixtape world with a string of underground releases that caught the eyes of New Orleans star rapper Curren$y and Def Jam, which released his studio debut Live From the Underground last year.…

Titus Andronicus at Siberia

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Sat. May 11 | Like Ken Burns with a megaphone or Bright Eyes with a backbone, New Jersey power punks Titus Andronicus went from Civil War set dressing (2010's The Monitor) to shouting their diaries from rooftops (last year's XL release Local Business).…

Mothers Day at the Audubon Zoo

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Sun. May 12 | Irma Thomas makes her 30th anniversary Mother's Day appearance at the Audubon Zoo.…

Preview: Rodriguez

Noah Bonaparte Pais — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais on the strange tale of 1970s musician Sixto Rodriguez by Noah Bonaparte Pais "Thanks for your time, and you can thank me for mine. And after that's said, forget it.…

The Black Angels at Republic