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Last Updated March 10, 11:27 PM :: This list is an events calendar of [loosely] DIY activities in New Orleans. This calendar includes music shows, independent theater, activist and other types of meetings, etc. You will not find a listing for the House of Blues. The only way we can keep this list accurate and up-to-date is if you keep us informed. We can't spend every waking hour searching the internet and looking for flyers. Tell us what's going on! Submit your show to get it listed.
DJ Proppa Bear's Bassbin Safari Thursday, March 11. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs.
DJ Frenzi | DJ Daniel Steel Thursday, March 11. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Downstairs.
Patois Pour Haiti: Songs of Solidarity Thursday, March 11. Maison Musique. 8PM-2AM. $8. Booking Songs of Solidarity will feature Luther Gray and Bamboula 2000, Truth Universal, E-PROPS, Skipp Coon and Mr. Nick, BzyBee, Slangston Hughes, Blaze: The Verbal Chemist and DJ EF Cuttin. Hosted by Truth Universal and Valery Jean. Every dollar will go to Partners in Health in Haiti.
Who By Fire | Secret Annex | Billy the Living | Debauche Thursday, March 11. North Gate Tavern. 10PM. Booking
The Inheritors Thursday, March 11. Zeitgeist. 7:30PM. $7 general / $6 students & seniors / $ 5 members. Booking The most highly praised and awarded Mexican documentary in many years, THE INHERITORS by Eugenio Polgovsky immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor. The film takes us into the agricultural fields, where children barely bigger than the buckets they carry, work long hours, in often hazardous conditions, picking tomatoes, peppers, or beans, for which they are paid by weight. Infants in baskets are left alone in the hot sun, or are breast-fed by mothers while they pick crops. THE INHERITORS also observes other labor routines, including the production of earthen bricks, cutting cane, gathering firewood, ox-plowing fields and planting by hand, and even more artistic endeavors such as carving wooden figures and weaving baskets to sell. The indelible impression conveyed by THE INHERITORS, in which everyone-from the frailest elders to the smallest of toddlers-must work reveals how the cycle of poverty is passed on, from one generation to another.
Oblivion Thursday, March 11. Zeitgeist. 9:30PM. $7 general / $6 students & seniors / $ 5 members. Booking The latest documentary from Heddy Honigmann (Forever, Metal and Melancholy, O Amor Natural) focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing its startling contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how many of its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis, terrorism and government violence, denial of workers' rights, and political corruption. OBLIVION provides intimate and moving portraits of street musicians, singers, vendors, shoeshine boys, and the gymnasts (some mere children) and jugglers who perform at traffic stops. The film also visits with small business owners, from a leather-goods repairman and a presidential sash manufacturer to a frog-juice vendor, and contrasts the work and home environments of bartenders, waiters and waitresses employed at Lima's finest restaurants and hotels but who live in slums in the city's surrounding hillsides.
Friday, March 12
Friday Night Musica Camp with J. The Savage Friday, March 12. Big Top. 5PM-7PM. FREE for all kids & 3 Ring Members, $5 for non-member adults. Three Ring Circus Family happy hour featuring live music, make-and-take art projects for the kids, drinks for adults & kids. Sponsored by the New Orleans Musicians Clinic Gig Fund.
The Green Demons | Sons of Payne | Lawrence Benjamin and the Messengers Friday, March 12. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Foburg Festival Friday, March 12. Frenchmen Street (multiple venues). March 12-14.
Rabbit | Six Gallery Friday, March 12. Hey Cafe. 8PM. $5. Community Records Rabbit is local instrumental that kicks you in the crotch. Six Gallery is from Ohio and does an instrumental style rock with some vocals.
No Neutrality: The Abduction of Psychoanalysis by Corporate America Friday, March 12. Psychoanalytic Center (3624 Coliseum Street). 7:30PM. Booking A collaboration of the New Orleans Lyceum and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center: On Friday, March 12th, at 7:30 the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center and the New Orleans Lyceum will be showing the first part of the Century of the Self which focuses on the rise of Edward Bernays in American corporate culture and his wider legacy. On Friday, March 26th at 7:30, we will show the second part of the series which covers the influences of Anna Freud on the government, big business, and CIA development of techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people.
Know Your Enemy Friday, March 12. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking Know Your Enemy is a tribute band of the 90's rock/hiphop group Rage Against The Machine. The four experienced musicians of Know Your Enemy have come together from many other New Orleans projects to deliver a heart pounding, high energy taste of one of the most influential bands of all time. And it's not just about the music with these guys. It's about a movement. Know Your Enemy is focused on carrying on the concepts and ideologies set forth by Rage Against The Machine. So take a stand, speak your mind, and come let the music set you free!
Freedom Riders Friday, March 12. Warren Easton Senior High School. 7PM. Booking A documentary that explores the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of eight months in 1961 that changed America forever.
Misery Index | Kill The Client | High Priest Saturday, March 13. Bar, The. 10PM. $7. Noxious Noize Two brutal Relapse Records bands, on tour together! Baltimore, MD's
Misery Index play a furious medly of grindcore, death metal &
hardcore. Dallas, TX's grindcore unit Kill The Client are also along
for the ride. High Priest up the evil for local support. this one’s
gonna be loud!!!
MOTO | Missing Monuments | Die Rotzz | secret special guests Saturday, March 13. Circle Bar. 8:30PM. $5. Clickem Youth MOTO homecoming show & Euro tour send-off. Original '80s lineup. Plus, King Louie bar-pop, Die Rotzz' funny punk, secret special guests, and HOT DOGS!
The White Bitch | Ratty Scurvics | Savoir Adore | Mon Khmer | The Gills Saturday, March 13. Dragon's Den. 10PM. $7. Simple Play Productions Foburg Fest.
Art Opening Saturday, March 13. Front. 6PM. FREE. Lou Blackwell, Angelo Arnold, Gowri Savoor, and Front member Stephanie Patton this month showing sculpture, painting, wallpaper inspired prints, and drawings. March 13-April 3. Opening reception Saturday March 13th from 6-10 pm. Gallery open Saturdays and Sundays, 12- 5 pm.
Superstar Runner | The 94's | Phosphate Jesse | Radar Vs Wolf | Motherlode Saturday, March 13. Here Today Gone Tomorrow. 8PM. $5.
Fatter Than Albert | Informant | Shoot The Daily Edit | The Lollies | Big, Fat, and Delicious Saturday, March 13. High Ground. 6:30PM. $8. Booking Ska. Punk. Reggae. Punk. Children & Adults Dancing. INFORMANT is a Rx Bandits style ska punk band from Texas with former members of Detonate. Their next record will be released on Community Records. All the rest of the bands are locals. Hoorah!
Kicks and Snares: Sneaker Exchange & Artist Showcase. Saturday, March 13. Howlin Wolf. 3PM. Howlin Wolf Booking Live graffiti, breakdancing, MC Battle, Pete Rock.
Helen Gillet | Freddie Brink Saturday, March 13. McKeown's Books. 8PM-10PM. FREE. Booking An Evening of Difficult Music #25. New and experimental music from: Helen Gillet (cello, drone box), Freddie Brink (gong, timpani), and guest.
Burn Out Brighter | Leaving Brightside | MidSummer Classic | Bearfighter Saturday, March 13. North Gate Tavern. 10PM. Booking
Wizzard Sleeve | The Girls at Dawn | Predator | Flight Saturday, March 13. Saturn Bar. 10PM. $7. 86'd Productions Thanks to the poser St. Patrick's day parade and MOTO, this show will start a little later than normal--whenever people get there, I guess.
'Bama gluewavers Wizzard Sleeve return to the Saturn on their way to SXSW with The Girls at Dawn, an all-girl melodic Brooklyn Loft-pop trio. Atlanta punkers Predator and Mississippi's synth-punk outfit Flight open. Its gonna be a long drunken fiasco. Shit will be smashed (hopefully, faces!).
Denominators Saturday, March 13. Trouser House (4105 St. Claude Avenue. 6PM-10PM. FREE. Trouser House features Denominators, an exhibition by New Orleans-based artist Stephen Kwok. Trouser House is a new urban farming and contemporary art initiative. For more information, please visit our website at http://trouserhouse.wordpress.com.
Haiti: Revolution, Reconstruction, Restitution Saturday, March 13. Warren Easton Senior High School. 2PM-5PM. Booking The program will explore Haiti's history of revolution, occupation and exploitation, the emerging shock doctrine the U.S. and corporate partners have planned, and what the American Left can do to support Haitian-led reconstruction.
Out of Our Right Minds: Trauma, Depression & The Black Woman Saturday, March 13. Warren Easton Senior High School. 5PM. Booking This film explores the horrors of the middle passage, the slavery experience, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, male/female relationships and a myriad of other issues that have contributed to the pain and emptiness black woman face worldwide.
Breaking Poems Saturday, March 13. Warren Easton Senior High School (3019 Canal Street). 7PM-9PM. FREE. An evening of poetry and music with Tony Award-winning Actor and Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, Def Jam poet Sunni Patterson, legendary poet, filmmaker and author Kalamu Ya Salaam, and singer Michaela Harrison.
Sunday, March 14
Loren Murrell | Spencer Garland Band | Count Numbers Sunday, March 14. Allways Lounge (Cowpokes). 10PM. $6. SXSW via NOLA with some touring NYC bands and your local talent!
What is Anarchism? Sunday, March 14. ARK. 7:30PM SHARP. FREE. Booking The first in a series of radical discussion groups will be held this Sunday, March 14th at the Iron Rail located at 511 Marigny St. The group is free and open to the public and will begin promptly at 7.30pm.
Family Portrait | The Lucks | The Demon Beat Sunday, March 14. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Megafauna | Big, Fat & Delicious | High in One Eye Sunday, March 14. Dragon's Den. 10PM. $5. Simple Play Productions Downstairs. Foburg Fest.
Born Empty Sunday, March 14. Dragon's Den. 7:30PM (early show). Booking Downstairs.
Chicken Little | F.J.K. | Busman's Holiday | Sorority | Greg Rodrigue Sunday, March 14. Hey Cafe. 10PM. $5. Community Records Acoustic/ folk punk show. All of these bands will be playing with no microphones. Chicken Little is on tour from Nashville, TN and Busman's Holiday is on tour from Indiana.
Coathangers | Shining Path | The Bills Sunday, March 14. Saturn Bar. 10PM. $6. 86'd Productions The Coathangers are another all girl art-punk band from Atlanta, GA. Shining Path
are from Montgomery, AL and play garage. The Bills is surf/punk from NOLA featuring Bill Pallbearer and a new and IMPROVED lineup!
Guess where everyone's going? SXSW! They gonna make it big!
Fighting for Home: Housing Struggles Across the U.S. Sunday, March 14. Zeitgeist. 3PM. Booking Housing activists from Miami’s Take Back the Land, Brooklyn’s Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), and MAYDAY NOLA discuss housing issues in their communities.
FEATURING:
Housing is a Human Right - Filmmaker Present at Screening. Excerpts from the ongoing multimedia documentary portrait of the struggle for Home. Created and produced by Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo.
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers Sunday, March 14. Zeitgeist. 7PM. Booking Pentagon insider leaks top-secret government papers. 92m, documentary, directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.
Monday, March 15
Torche | Carusella | Haarp | Thou | Surroundings Monday, March 15. Big Top. 7PM. $7. Robot Punch Productions Early, all ages show!
Stephanie's Id | Kelcy Mae | Monogold Monday, March 15. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Hull | Caltrop | Slow Form Of
Suicide Monday, March 15. Dragon's Den. 10PM. $3. Noxious Noize Brooklyn, NY’s Hull (The End Records) play heavy stoner metal. Chapel
Hill, NC’s Caltrop play some heavy, rockin’ doom/stoner rock. Slow
Form Of Suicide is fast punk/thrash from Berwyn, Illinois. As always,
$2 High Lifes & $3 wells for all attendees!
Self Help Tapes | Many Mansions | Great Hopes Monday, March 15. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs. Indie rock.
Washed Out | Small Black | Pictureplane | Isle of Crete Monday, March 15. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking In the Den.
Zs | Microshards | MC Trachiotomy Monday, March 15. Saint. 10PM. FREE. 86'd Productions Fucked up noise/experimental show at everyone's favorite alternative bar The Saint! Zs are from Brooklyn, and they will be experimenting with noise apparently. Microshards shred, and who the hell knows what Trach will be up too. Get ready for the best part... IT'S FREE!
Organizing Against Apartheid Monday, March 15. Zeitgeist. 7PM. Booking Screening and community discussion about the global campaigns against South African and Israeli Apartheid.
FEATURING:
SAIA Carleton Divestment Campaign
Campus organizing against Apartheid. 7m, campaign video, directed by SAIA Carleton. 7pm
Have You Heard from Johannesburg? The Bottom Line
How a grassroots international movement fought Apartheid in South Africa. 86m, documentary, directed by Connie Field.
Tuesday, March 16
Withered | Legions Of Hoar Frost |
Suspended
Obscurity Tuesday, March 16. Bar, The. 10PM. $5. Noxious Noize Withered are a black metal band with death metal overtones from
Atlanta, GA. they haven’t played here since their tour with Watain in
2008. Local black metallers Legions of Hoar Frost will unleash their
blackened misery as well as local death metallers Suspended Obscurity.
Kimya Dawson | Angelo Spencer | Emily McWilliams Tuesday, March 16. Big Top. 7PM. $5. An Idea Like No Other Benefit for Sweet Home New Orleans. Kimya Dawson returns. Will all of Sacred Heart make it out to this show like the last one? Will they be as stoked on K Records artist Angelo Spencer? I know they're going to go to funky towne with Old Gregg and drink Bailey's out of a shoe when they see their old professor Emily McWilliams is opening. Do you love me? Tell me you love me.
Screens | Aa | One Man Machine Tuesday, March 16. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Caspian | Arms & Sleepers | Smiley With A Knife Tuesday, March 16. Dragon's Den. 9PM. Upstairs. CASPIAN are instrumental heavyweights. Arms & Sleepers are an experimental live electronic duo. SWAK are a tasty local instrumental group.
Sexycrimes | Maddie Ruthless | Nervous Juvenile | Sun God | This Moment in Black History Tuesday, March 16. Hey Cafe. 10PM. Look Ma No Bra! Sexycrimes are from Richmond and have ex-members of Dynamite Arrows.
Citizen Cope Tuesday, March 16. Tipitina's. 10PM. $25.
The Fence Tuesday, March 16. Zeitgeist. 7PM. Booking The unforeseen consequences of the U.S.’ construction of a 700-mile fence along its Mexican border.. 35minutes, documentary, directed by Rory Kennedy.
Burma VJ
Burma’s video journalists report from within a repressive police state. 85m, documentary, directed by Anders Østergaard.
Wednesday, March 17
Off With Their Heads | Pumpkin | Opposable Thumbs Wednesday, March 17. Big Top. 7PM. $5. An Idea Like No Other Did you miss out on the last OWTH show at the Big Top? For shame! Well, in my everlasting mercy I'm giving you another shot. Don't blow it this time. Ex-Rivethead / -Witches with Dicks pop punk on No Idea Records. You know what this is! It's sing-a-long, fist-pumping, booty-shaking music from Minneapolis. Pumpkin and Opposable Thumbs open--two awesome local bands from some New Orleans punk lifers.
Yula Beeri | Ratty Scurvics and the Black Market Butchers | Death by Arrow Wednesday, March 17. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Symposium Wednesday, March 17. Latter Library. 6:30PM. FREE. Booking We will have one more session on the Symposium to finish up the text and have a discussion of our own views of love.
Dangerous Ponies | Deny It Wednesday, March 17. Miss Fort Knocks (1223 N. Dorgenois). 7PM. $3 (for the touring band). Dangerous Ponies: "7 piece queer and allied band from Philadelphia, slathered in gold and rainbows," who say they'll have you a singin' and a dancin'! Also! Deny It, an all-female soft punk band, cute enough to melt your face off. DONT BE LATE--IT'LL BE OVER BY 10!
Bucket Flush | Deserter | Bildo and the Reacharounds | Mars | Nutria Assault Wednesday, March 17. Saint. 8PM. FREE. Bucket Flush is from Philly; Deserter is from Florida; Bildo and the Reacharounds is from New Jersey; Mars is from Here; Nutria Assault is from Here.
King Louie's Missing Monuments | The Barreracudas | Makeshift Lover | Lights Out Wednesday, March 17. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $7. 86'd Productions Come celebrate the TRUE St. Patrick's day at Saturn Bar with Louie's power-pop odyssey The Missing Monuments and yet another band of punk/rocknroll from Atlanta, The Barreracudas. Makeshift Lover and a new band featuring Chris Squire called Lights Out play too! HAIL the Irish as you vomit dyed beer all over the Saturn
Bar toilet. Good times!
Dead to Me | Smoke or Fire Wednesday, March 17. The Boxer and Barrel.
PANEL: Media and Social Justice Wednesday, March 17. Zeitgeist. 7PM. Booking Journalists discuss the role of media in movements for justice.
Thursday, March 18
Black Tusk | Tombs | Graves Of Valor |
Mars Thursday, March 18. Banks Street Bar. 10PM. $8. Noxious Noize Three of Relapse Records newest heavy hitters! Savannah, GA’s Black
Tusk bring their brand of Southern Swamp metal. Brooklyn, NY’s Tombs
play a unique brand of metal that’s hard to pin down. They go
everywhere from death to drone to sludge to psychedelic without ever
sounding contrived. Florence, NC’s Graves Of Valor play technical
death metal with slight... and i mean SLIGHT... deathcore overtones.
they’ll please fans of Cannibal Corpse as well as (although i hate to
say it) Job For A Cowboy fans. Local favorites Mars support. Ride yo'
tall bike, punk!
Lovehog | Schocholautte Thursday, March 18. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
DJ Proppa Bear's Bassbin Safari Thursday, March 18. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs.
DJ Frenzi | DJ Daniel Steel Thursday, March 18. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Downstairs.
Crepe Covered Sidewalks Thursday, March 18. New Orleans Museum of Art. 7PM. $8. Booking Crepe Covered Sidewalks is a riveting documentary of singer/actress Rene Wilson's return home to the devastation and desolation of New Orleans after Katrina and the effects the aftermath has on her family.
Spoon Thursday, March 18. Republic. 7PM. $20 / $18 advance. Booking For over a decade, Spoon has been known as "one of indie-rock's thriftiest bands" - exploring, reinventing and refining both their sound and songcraft while remaining recognizably themselves. Their highly-anticipated new record, Transference, hits stores January 19th and their show at Republic on March 18th will feature new hits like "Written in Reverse" and classics like "The Underdog."
Friday, March 19
American Cheeseburger | Necro Hippies | High Fructose Friday, March 19. Brock's House (3081 Iowa Street in Baton Rouge). 7PM. $5. Andy Gibbs
Wooden Wand | Luke Allen | Steve Eck Friday, March 19. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Teenage Lobotomy Friday, March 19. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Downstairs. Ramones tribute band.
Scotland Green | Andrew Healan | Tony Frederick | Leon Blanda | Cassidy Henehan Friday, March 19. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking In the Den. "Rocket Surgery": A Night of Stand Up Comedy.
M@ Peoples Collective Friday, March 19. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking Backed by FooanDrew of GravityA, M@ Peoples Collective is poised to bring our progressive brand of hip-hop into the forefront of the genre.
Salt of this Sea Friday, March 19. Zeitgeist. 7PM. Booking In Annemarie Jacir’s stunning debut feature, two young Palestinians steal a taste of freedom on the run from the law. Reviewers have called it, "A film that dares to imagine the impossible...Attractive, seductive, compelling, characters which claim a piece of your heart within minutes. Bonnie and Clyde meets Ghassan Kanafani - just what we needed to dream again." The film was an official selection at the 2009 CANNES Film Festival.
Saturday, March 20
Salome | 54R | Black Market Ministry | Thou Saturday, March 20. 1233 Aster Street (Baton Rouge). 7PM. $5. Andy Gibbs Metal!
Man at Home | Move Lafitte Saturday, March 20. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Autotomii Saturday, March 20. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Downstairs. Indie rock.
Enharmonic Souls Saturday, March 20. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs. Indie rock.
Alesana | A Skylit Drive | Of Mice and Men | The Word Alive | We Came as Romans Saturday, March 20. High Ground. 7PM. $15. Incision Records
MuteMath | Lee Safar | Sole Pursuit | The National Rifle Saturday, March 20. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking Spotlight on Haiti Benefit.
Women & Power: (Re)Moved & (Re)Claimed Saturday, March 20. McKenna Museum of African American Art. 10PM. $8. Booking A combination of installation & concert dance, this evening of multi-dimensional works illuminates women's embodied struggles, hopes and truths, reclaiming the infinite power of women.
Midtown Dickens
Saturday, March 20. Miss Fort Knocks (1223 N. Dorgenois). $3 (for the touring band). "They developed an unrefined brand of punk-folk that drew from old time bluegrass and the anti-folk minimalism of the Pacific Northwest. After an off-the-cuff two-month tour, the duo released Oh Yell! (307 Knox Records), which garnered wide praise and a cult following for its spirited and charming odes to the wonders of everyday life." Come see for yourself!
Last Chalaron | Polly Pry Saturday, March 20. North Gate Tavern. 10PM. Booking A very special fundraiser for Adele Litchford.
Quintron and Miss Pussycat | Ballzack and Odoms | The Madd Wikkid Saturday, March 20. One Eyed Jack's. 10PM. $10. Booking WTUL presents! Come support WTUL during our annual Rock-on-Survival Marathon.
WTUL Record Fair Round 2 Saturday, March 20. Tulane University (pocket park at the Laverne-Bernick Center). 10AM. FREE. Booking Following November's success, we're shoving as many vendors as possible into Tulane's campus to bring you LPs, 45s, Tapes, CDs, Turntables of all musical varieties.
Intifada NYC Saturday, March 20. Zeitgeist. 2PM. Booking Controversy surrounds the United States’ first Arabic-language public school. 46m, documentary, directed by David Teague.
Freeing Silvia Baraldini Saturday, March 20. Zeitgeist. 4PM. Booking The life of US political prisoner Silvia Baraldini, a white woman working in solidarity with Black armed resistance movements. 99m, documentary, directed by Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas.
Sunday, March 21
Silent Cinema | Royal Bangs Sunday, March 21. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
American Cheeseburger | Necro Hippies | Small Bones Sunday, March 21. Dragon's Den. 7PM. $5. An Idea Like No Other Downstairs thrash / punk / hardcore show. Ex-Goat Shanty / -Divorce, Athens thrashers American Cheeseburger are back down to melt your face off with the house lights ON. Necro Hippies are your favorite yokels combining Blatz, Minor Threat, and Joy Division into something to make Poppa Raw Sugar oh so proud. Small Bones are your other favorite yokels combining This Machine Kills and a hard life down at Nowe Miasto making little Derek "Jensen" Zimmer liken them to 90s French emo like a crazy person who's never heard the genre.
DJ Soul Sister Sunday, March 21. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs. Funk and r&b.
The Fresh & Onlys | Home Blitz | The Nodzzz | Superdestroyers Sunday, March 21. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $7. 86'd Productions This is gonna be a good one. San Francisco garage/psych/pop group The Fresh & Onlys
team up with the AWESOME Home Blitz--sounds like a lo-fi mix of Angry Samoans and MOTO
from New Jersey (best place ever). Nodzzz is jangly punk from California.
The Music’s Gonna Get You Through Sunday, March 21. Zeitgeist. 2PM. Booking Visually-challenged teenagers participate in a music camp hosted by blind New Orleans master pianist Henry Butler. 55m, documentary, directed by Gabrielle Mullem.
State Violence and Community Response Sunday, March 21. Zeitgeist. 4PM. Booking Screenings and discussion with filmmakers and local activists about state violence in New Orleans and Oakland, and violent and nonviolent community responses.
FEATURING:
Daggit Gaza.
A recipe for a spicy tomato salad from Gaza. Literally translated, ‘the pounding of Gaza.’ 8m, experimental, directed by Hadeel Assali and Iman Saqr. 4pm.
Operation Small Axe *World Premiere* - Filmmaker Present at Screening
Fighting law enforcement violence in Oakland, CA. 71m, documentary, directed by Adimu Madyun.
In Our Own Image: Sex Workers Speak Sunday, March 21. Zeitgeist. 7PM. FREE. Booking Screening and panel featuring filmmakers and local sex workers and advocates. FREE EVENT.
In Our Own Image: Sex Worker Made Media and the Story of $pread Magazine - Filmmaker Present at Screening
$pread Magazine, an example of sex worker-made media, and challenges to corporate media approaches to sex work. 19m, documentary, directed by Lisa Davis and J. Kirby.
Patois Closing Ceremony Sunday, March 21. Zeitgeist. 9PM. Booking Presentation of juried and audience choice awards.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM: American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Intimate portrayal of the best-selling and controversial author. 84m, documentary, directed by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier.
Monday, March 22
Hollywood | Sick Weapons | Peiste | Opposable Thumbs Monday, March 22. Big Top. 7PM. $5. Bands will start around 8:00, show will be done by around 10:00. Show up on time!
Thank God | Nanda Devi | Baby Boy Monday, March 22. BR venue TBA. Andy Gibbs Racebannon might also be playing this one.
The Woes | Jupiter One | Loren Murrell Monday, March 22. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Uzuhi |
Suzi Trash | The No-Hawks Monday, March 22. Dragon's Den. 10PM. $3. Noxious Noize To those of you who missed them during Bring The Noize! Fest in
October, Uzuhi blend fast Japanese HC with J-Pop & the end result is a
brightly colored super action live show. Suzi Trash is somewhere in
between Mudhoney, The Cramps, and The Mummies. The No-hawks are kinda
folk punk but in a good way. as always, $2 High Lifes & $3 wells for
all!!!
Van Halen II: Rise of The Machines | Kohoutek | Dark Sea Dream Monday, March 22. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs. Experimental.
Broken Water | Deny It Monday, March 22. NOLA venue TBA (get in touch if you can host this). No More Fiction Broken Water are from Olympia.
The XX | JJ Monday, March 22. Spanish Moon. 9PM. $12. Bullhorn Bandits The xx are a London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead and bass guitar respectively), Baria Quereshi (keyboards and guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler). All 19 years old, The xx are childhood friends who formed while attending the Elliot School.
Gordon Grdina & Kenton Loewen Monday, March 22. Zeitgeist. 8PM. Scatterjazz Gordon Grdina is a marvelous guitar stylist and OUD (traditional Arabic Lute) player from Vancouver, BC. Stylistically reminiscent of hyper-speed jazz technicians like John MacLaughlin, and with twisted harmonic conceptions quite his own, his music tends toward aggressive, middle-eastern inflected world music with heavy metal and jazz leanings. He's knocked me out in Canada and New York City both, and he is bringing his regular drummer Kenton Loewen from Vancouver with him on his first-ever visit to New Orleans. Do come. Check out Gordon Grdina at www.gordongrdina.com. He may have a local guest improviser join his duo.
Tuesday, March 23
Gordon Grdina & Kenton Loewen Tuesday, March 23. Blue Nile. 10PM. Scatterjazz Gordon Grdina is a marvelous guitar stylist and OUD (traditional Arabic Lute) player from Vancouver, BC. Stylistically reminiscent of hyper-speed jazz technicians like John MacLaughlin, and with twisted harmonic conceptions quite his own, his music tends toward aggressive, middle-eastern inflected world music with heavy metal and jazz leanings. He's knocked me out in Canada and New York City both, and he is bringing his regular drummer Kenton Loewen from Vancouver with him on his first-ever visit to New Orleans. Do come. Check out Gordon Grdina at www.gordongrdina.com. He may have a local guest improviser join his duo.
Vivian Girls | Wetdog | Happy Birthday Tuesday, March 23. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
War Amps Tuesday, March 23. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Downstairs. Punk / metal.
Chinese Star | Fang Island | The Bellys Tuesday, March 23. Dragon's Den. 10PM. Booking Upstairs. Indie rock.
Digital Leather | Bare Wires | The Bellys Tuesday, March 23. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $6. 86'd Productions Omaha, AZ synthpunkers Digital Leather return to NOLA with San Fran's own tight pants and leather shoe wearing garage band Bare Wires. Some new band the Bellys play too. Never seen 'em, so I don't know what to say about it.
Wednesday, March 24
Simon Lott + Gordon Grdina + Brain McWhorter + Kenton Lowen Wednesday, March 24. Allways Lounge (Cowpokes). 10:30PM. Scatterjazz Local percussion wunderkind Simon Lott will graciously be sharing the stage with the burning hell-jazz guitarist Gordon Grdina from Vancouver, and jaw-dropping trumpet magician Brian McWhorter from Portland, as well as Grdina's dummer Kenton Loewen from Vancouver. There will be sounds loud and soft, sinister and soothing. Creative inferno music for the masses. An event to bring your cousins to.
Seedy Seeds | Peasant | Paperbird Wednesday, March 24. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Teeth Mountain | Mondo Drag Wednesday, March 24. Hey Cafe. 10PM. $5. Booking Teeth Mountain are from Baltimore. Mondo Drag are Alive Records dudes from Iowa.
Juiceboxxx | Puppy Hearts | Die Rotzz | Jean-Eric
Wednesday, March 24. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $7. 86'd Productions Rap vs. Punk! JUICEBOXXX from Minneapolis and JEAN-ERIC from NOLA take on the Die Rotzz
and Alabama/France's Puppy Hearts...(member of thomas function or something)... GO!
Mondo Drag | Bad Assets | War Amps
Thursday, March 25. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $7. 86'd Productions Mondo Drag is psych/rock outta Iowa. Bad Assets is outta california and plays the same shit. Members
of Dark Skies and Vegas Thunder. WAR AMPS! UPT!
Friday, March 26
Friday Night Music Camp with Sarah Quintana Friday, March 26. Big Top. 5PM-7PM. FREE for kids & 3 Ring Circus members; $5 for non-member adults. Three Ring Circus Family happy hour featuring live music, make-and-take art projects for the kids, drinks for adults & kids. Sponsored by the New Orleans Musicians Clinic Gig Fund.
Screening of Hilla Medalia’s new feature length documentary After The Storm Friday, March 26. Big Top. 8PM-10PM. Three Ring Circus The film explores the cultural landscape of New Orleans as seen through the eyes of a dozen teenage actors. As this creative journey unfolds, the young actors open up their hearts and homes to the film crew and reveal their personal stories of day-to-day survival in present-day New Orleans. It is from their perspective that we see this unique American city still struggling to piece itself back together two years after the hurricane.. An emotional and entertaining experience celebrating the spirit and culture of New Orleans, this film is about how the power of story can bring a community together.
No Neutrality: The Abduction of Psychoanalysis by Corporate America Friday, March 26. Psychoanalytic Center (3624 Coliseum Street). 7:30PM. Booking A collaboration of the New Orleans Lyceum and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center: On Friday, March 12th, at 7:30 the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center and the New Orleans Lyceum will be showing the first part of the Century of the Self which focuses on the rise of Edward Bernays in American corporate culture and his wider legacy. On Friday, March 26th at 7:30, we will show the second part of the series which covers the influences of Anna Freud on the government, big business, and CIA development of techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people.
The Blue Party Friday, March 26. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking Dressed in blue and playing high-energy folk rock that's perfect for a house party, The Blue Party is possibly the "funnest" band on Earth. Known to rock Republic's Throwback night, The Blue Party adds their own style to covers from the 60s through the 90s and is often seen in full costume for their Throwback sets!
Saturday, March 27
The Alexis Marceaux Band | Brass Bed Saturday, March 27. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Fleabag | Sourpatch | Deny It | Kicktease | Cocker Spaniel Friday, April 2. Koenji House (2608 Magazine at 3rd Street). 6PM. No More Fiction Shotgun Seamstress Zine Release Party.
Big Rock Candy Mountain Friday, April 2. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking Big Rock Candy Mountain. a song about the sweeter things in life for the down and out. The concept that a land filled with your uttermost desires is what is considered paradise. Big Rock Candy Mountain... a band that takes this concept and translates it into their own paradise of fuzzy guitars, square-waved keyboards, cavity inducing harmonies, distorted bass-lines, and four on the floor drum beats. Creating the foundation of what they consider fun, euphoric, and loud, BRCM's goal is to share this utopia to the masses.
Saturday, April 3
Freret Market Saturday, April 3. Freret Street from Napoleon to Upperline. 12PM-5PM.
Symposium Wednesday, April 7. Latter Library. 6:30PM. FREE. Booking We will be reading together "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, one of Socrates most famous critics.
G-Eazy Friday, April 9. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking DIY hip hop from Oakland, California now living in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Saturday, April 10
Smiley With A Knife | A Living Soundtrack | Shapes Like Dinosaurs | Rabbit Saturday, April 10. Dragon's Den. 10PM. $5. Instrumental Showcase: SWAK & ALS have new records coming out around this time. Rabbit are a new NOLA band mixing Latin and punk styles and Shapes Like Dinosaurs are from Birmingham and if you like anything Kinsella (cap'n jazz, owls) your sure to eat it up.
John Clark discusses "The Coming Insurrection" Sunday, April 11. Loyola University (Monroe Library Seminar 4). 7PM. FREE. Booking Thursday night will devote the next two sessions to a discussion of the widely-discussed and controversial pamphlet, THE COMING INSURRECTION, which can be found at http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/(text and downloads in French and English). As you may know, the work has become an international best-seller since Julien Coupat, the alleged author, and his associates (the Tarnac 9) were arrested by the French police and accused of being anarcho-autonomist plotters against civilization, and right-wing commentator Glen Beck ranted about the text and recommended that everyone read it
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyi2qNskJc).
Glasgow Friday, April 16. Republic. 10PM. $5. Booking A rock band that marries neat suburban charm with boisterous city noise, Glasgow has earned their place in New Orleans' indie rock limelight. They're a hard rocking hybrid of classical and classic rock with a little Vaudeville thrown in for good measure, and their tongue-in-cheek swagger comes on the heels of White Album-era Beatles, Queen, and David Bowie, all filtered through the lens of Zappa-esque absurdism.
Riverwolves | The Flying Humanoids | Jeff Buck | Cory Taylor Cox | Chicken Little | Jjesushi | Scissor Dicks | Grass N Dirt | Killa Kel | 37 Cents | Jasper McAdams | Truth Hurts | The Hitleristic Darwinists | The Vidrines Friday, April 16. Soundstage. $10 a day, or $20 for whole weekend. UNITY FEST 2: April 16-18th. Bands may drop out. If you are looking to play on an open spot if available, call 225-763-1258.
Saturday, April 17
The Flaming Tsunamis I A Billion Ernies I Stuck Lucky I Fatter Than Albert I Maddie Ruthless and The Secret Affair I Caddywhompus I The Rooks I Big, Fat, and Delicious I Brunt of It I Shoot The Daily Edit I Reagabomb I Killin' Werewolves I Small Bones I Swear Jar I Stereohype I Informant I Chilled Monkey Brains I The Lollies l Pericles (Dominican Republic) l Matt Wixson Saturday, April 17. Big Top. 12PM-11PM. $15. Community Records This year is going to be the best one yet, as anyone can plainly see from the line-up. As excited as any of you are about this, I guarantee that we gotcha beat. As usual, there will be an outside and inside stage featuring local bands and touring bands, food and drink, unisex bathrooms, dogs, art, shade, sun, love, no hate, etc.
The Rebirth Brass Band | Hot 8 Brass Band | The Soul Rebels Brass Band Thursday, April 22. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking
Friday, April 23
Lost Bayou Ramblers | Zydepunks Friday, April 23. DBA.
Caddywhompus | Brother/Ghost | Fatter Than Albert | Sun Hotel Friday, April 23. Ernie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge. 9PM. $5. Community Records Remember Jasper from Lanterns / Clawing to China? Brother Ghost is his new band from Austin, Texas that does more of an indie rock thing while retaining those old screamo roots. This is the Caddywhompus record release show for their LP on Community Records!!! DIY or go fucking die.
Dirty Dozen Brass Band Friday, April 23. One Eyed Jack's. 9PM. Aquarium Drunkard Performing My Feet Can Fail Me Now in its entirety.
Beats Antique | Random Rab | Emancipator Friday, April 23. One Eyed Jack's. 2AM. Aquarium Drunkard Late show on the 23rd? Early show on the 24th.
Marco Benevento and Friends featuring Billy Martin and Dave Driewitz Friday, April 23. Tipitina's French Quarter. 10PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear. Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
George Porter Jr. and Runnin' Pardners Friday, April 23. Tipitina's French Quarter. 2AM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear. Show is 2AM, technically 4/24.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Anders Osborne | Eric Lindell Saturday, April 24. Tipitina's French Quarter. 10PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
The Slip | Surprise Me Mr. Davis | Marco Benevento Trio Saturday, April 24. Tipitina's French Quarter. 2AM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Show is 2AM, technically 4/25.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
John Clark discusses "The Coming Insurrection" Sunday, April 25. Loyola University (Monroe Library Seminar 4). 7PM. FREE. Booking Thursday night will devote the next two sessions to a discussion of the widely-discussed and controversial pamphlet, THE COMING INSURRECTION, which can be found at http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/(text and downloads in French and English). As you may know, the work has become an international best-seller since Julien Coupat, the alleged author, and his associates (the Tarnac 9) were arrested by the French police and accused of being anarcho-autonomist plotters against civilization, and right-wing commentator Glen Beck ranted about the text and recommended that everyone read it
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyi2qNskJc).
Tim Reynolds | TR3 Sunday, April 25. Tipitina's French Quarter. 9PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Monday, April 26
Daughters of the Sun | Vampire Hands Monday, April 26. Circle Bar. 10PM. Booking
Tuesday, April 27
Anders Osborne | John "Papa" Gros | Billy Iuso | Eric Bolivar | Kenny Gradney | Paul Barrere | Fred Tackett of Little Feat Tuesday, April 27. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking Rad Gumbo:A Tribute to Little Feat Drummer Richie Hayward.
Garage A Trois | Stanton Moore Trio | Mike Dillon Trio | The Dead Kenny G's | Marcp Benevento Trio Wednesday, April 28. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking Meglomaniacs Ball.
Infected Mushroom Wednesday, April 28. Republic. 9PM. $20 ($18 in advance). Booking Psy-Trance innovators Infected Mushroom have become one of the biggest electronic bands on the planet. Twice ranked among the world's 10 best DJs by the bible of the scene, the U.K.'s DJ Magazine, the Israel-bred, L.A. based duo bring a frenetic rock energy to the form. Their explosive show, featuring guitars, live drums, intensely passionate vocals and an ambitious multimedia backdrop, ranks among the genre's most unpredictably joyous events. And their recordings continually venture where other electronic acts fear to tread. Presented by Republic, Wagatail and Winter Circle.
Thursday, April 29
Trombone Shorty | Orleans Avenue | Dr. Gonzeaux Thursday, April 29. Blue Nile. 10PM. $25. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Jojo's Mardi Gras Band Thursday, April 29. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking Down on The Bayou II: JOJO's Mardi Gras Band featuring: John Hermann, John Bell, Sunny Ortiz, George Porter Jr., Anders Osborne, Papa Mali, and more.
Julian Casablancas Thursday, April 29. Republic. 9PM. $32. Booking As frontman and lead songwriter for The Strokes, Julian Casablancas developed his signature vocal style, reconciling influences ranging from Jim Morrison to Lou Reed and combining elements of sing-speak, soul, and American rock. Already a music legend, Casablancas corralled all his musical vocabulary into one forceful montage with his new release Phrazes for the Young. From soul and country to scuzzy guitar rock to synth-pop, the new record's songs trip through their creator's head with a nonchalant expertise, deceptive density, and boundary-defying curiosity. Presented by Republic, Wagatail and Winter Circle.
Friday, April 30
Big Sam's Funky Nation Friday, April 30. Blue Nile. 10PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Soulive Friday, April 30. Blue Nile. 2AM. $25. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Show is 2AM, technically 5/1.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
The New Orleans All Stars | Papa Grows Funk | Rebirth Brass Band | Col Bruce Hampton Ret. & Friends | Russell Batiste & Friends | Good Enough For Good Times | Eric Mcfadden | Monophonics Friday, April 30. Howlin Wolf. 10PM. Howlin Wolf Booking 8th Annual Bayou Rendezvous.
Pretty Lights | Gift of Gab Friday, April 30. Republic. 10PM. $30 ($25 in advance). Booking At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin' beats, Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want; electro organic cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion, and send dance floors into frenzies. And the people are responding.What makes Pretty Lights truly different though, is that these beats have serious soul, juxtaposing collages of beautiful vintage samples against backdrops of futuristic synthesis and dirty broken beats, creating a sound that can snap your neck while simultaneously shedding your tears. The sound is not only getting around, it's spreading like a virus. Presented by Republic, Wagatail and Winter Circle.
Tab Benoit and Friends Friday, April 30. Tipitina's French Quarter. 10PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Some Cat From Japan: Music Inspired by Jimi Hendrix featuring Will Bernard, Nigel Hall, Scott Metzger, Ron Johnson, Eric Bolivar Friday, April 30. Tipitina's French Quarter (Upstairs). 2AM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Show is 2AM, technically 5/1.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Saturday, May 1
Soulive Saturday, May 1. Blue Nile. 10PM. $25. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Toubab Krewe Saturday, May 1. Blue Nile. 2AM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Show is 2AM, technically 5/2.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Rusko | Big Gigantic Saturday, May 1. Republic. 2AM. $25. Booking The human bass tornado and current reigning champ of the dubstep scene is Rusko. Veering away from the dark, serious side of the sound, Rusko brought a highly driven energy and fun approach to the dubstep massive, quickly coining his own take on the genre. His sound appealed to many people outside of the dubstep world as his productions became more adventurous in formula, sound and energy. His huge hit "Cockney Thug" has been played by everyone from Pete Tong, Switch, Diplo and Santogold and has been remixed by Buraka Som sistema, Diplo, Drop the Lime and the Scratch Perverts. Now part of the Mad Decent Camp with collaborations on the horizon with the likes of Switch, Diplo , Santigold, Trouble Andrew, Hot Chip and more.the future sure is looking bright. Presented by Republic, Wagatail and Winter Circle.
Theresa Andersson | Mia Borders Saturday, May 1. Tipitina's French Quarter. 10PM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Bonerama Saturday, May 1. Tipitina's French Quarter. 2AM. $20. Backbeat Presents Jazz Fest 2010 Concert Series! Made possible with the help of Let's Be Totally Clear. Show is 2AM, technically 5/2.
Tickets: backbeatpresents.com
Saviours | The Roller | Thou Thursday, June 3. NOLA venue TBA. $5. An Idea Like No Other Saviours is ex-members of Yaphet Kotto doing stoner metal sludge.
Friday, June 4
Saviours | The Roller | Thou Friday, June 4. BR venue TBA. $5. Andy Gibbs Saviours is ex-members of Yaphet Kotto doing stoner metal sludge.
Miike Snow Wednesday, June 9. Republic. 8PM. $18 ($15 in advance). Booking Slightly downtempo but always supported by a driving beat, Sweden's Miike Snow creates low-wattage electro-pop that sparkles, hums, and has sent bloggers a-craze with their debut album. If you don't know Miike Snow, click "listen" now. They're too good not to. Oh, and the members have written and produced for Kylie Minogue, Madonna, and Britney Spears.
Friday, July 2
Moloch | Thou Friday, July 2. Nowe Miasto. 7PM. $5. An Idea Like No Other Moloch sound like a slowed down version of Rorschach, like a 90s metal band from Germany slowed down to midtempo plodding heaviness, like the perfect stripped down blend of Eyehategod and Dystopia. They're coming over from foggy NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND; and this is the second to last night of their first US tour. Wonderful little gentlemen. Talk to them at the show. Make some new, amazing friends like Thou did.
Saturday, July 3
Moloch | Haarp | Thou Saturday, July 3. Baton Rouge venue TBA. 7PM. $5. Andy Gibbs Final show of the Moloch / Thou tour.
Thursday, July 22
Altar of Plagues | Velnias | Thou Thursday, July 22. BR venue TBA. $5. Andy Gibbs
Friday, July 23
Altar of Plagues | Velnias | Tirefire | Thou Friday, July 23. Hey Cafe. 7PM. $5. An Idea Like No Other Altar of Plagues play a mix of soaring post-rock and brutal black metal, and they hail from CORK, IRELAND. This might be your only chance to catch these guys, so don't sit home like a poseur (Bryan Funck). Velnias are from Colorado and play raw doom and black metal. Tirefire is everyone's favorite scenester black metal band. And Thou are a bunch of turds.