I saw Art Brut at Jacks earlier in the year and absolutely loved them. While Bang, Bang, Rock and Roll is indeed great, it’s nowhere near as good as their live show. Up-and-coming indie rockers We Are Scientists are the coheadliners for the evening. The Spinto Band will start the night off. Doors open at […]

Oh man, I can’t even begin to tell you all how excited I am about this show. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, you better get there early and hope someone is selling one outside, because it’s 10 kinds of sold out. And if you do have tickets, get there early anyway because new […]

Garden Ruin is easily one of my favorite albums of the year and I’m quite excited about this show. Doors open at 9:00 and tickets should be around $10.
Don’t drink too hard for this one. Sufjan and My Brightest Diamond are tomorrow night.

Well I generally bemoan anything at House of Blues, but I guess if you’re feeling up for it, this isn’t a bad show to hit up. Fortunately I’ve seen these bands gobs of times. Deadboy & the elephantmen are opening and I know some of you kids like them.
Tickets are $20 and doors open […]

Only a few days into the tour, The Procession will be touring their little black hearts out for the next several months. With The Castanets in tow, I guess that makes Jacks the place to be tonight. Each band is celebrating relatively new material, with Black Heart Procession’s The Spell being the most recent.
Cover […]

Announced via their Myspace (which is spazzing something awful right now) and subsequently named through their website, The Decemberists have dropped the proverbial ball on a US fall tour. And some fortuitious twist of fate has placed them in New Orleans on October 26, just days before Voodoo Music Festival 2006, the same fest they […]

If I didn’t have gobs of stuff to do, I’d totally be at this show. Brightblack used to play with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. His new self-titled album is stellar. I thoroughly recommend making it to this one. Mairee Sioux is the opener.
Doors open at 9PM and cover is $10.

These guys play around NOLA a good bit, but who cares? They put on a good show. It’s a sort of rock-infused zydeco thing. This is about as close as I’ll get to a jam band. No idea what the cost is, but doors open at 10PM.
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Yea, you head me. Indie superstar Sufjan Stevens will play House of Blues NOLA Tuesday, September 19. Asthmatic Kitty labelmate My Brightest Diamond will open the show. I didn’t figure I’d ever have an opportunity to see Stevens, and I must confess to being rather elated this show is on the horizon.
Tickets are $24 […]

Fresh off their west coast tour, the 40s reclaim the stage at Jacks. This is actually the release party for their brand new album Ticonderoga. That means they’ll be armed with all new material and will sound spot on.
Doors open at 9PM and tickets are $10.