NOLADIY.ORG - New Orleans Punk, Hardcore, Indie, and DIY Events

Thomas Helton, Steve Lands, Stoo Odom, Tim Robertson, Jeb Stuart, and Rex Gregory
Monday, June 2. The Zeitgeist. 7:30PM. Scatterjazz
Scatterjazz has curated a unique evening of small-group sound-sculpture based around the always-intriguing visiting bassist Thomas Helton, based in Houston. Set 1 will be a bass trio (or possibly two duos) featuring Thomas, as well as the inimitable bottoms of Jeb Stuart & Stoo Odom! Set 2 will be Thomas Helton flanked by Steve Lands on trumpet and Tim Robertson on guitar,, plus extra special guest Rex Gregory jumping on board when his belated arrival allows... Fun will be had, and new things will be heard. Be there OR be somewhere-decidedly-less-hip!

Thomas Helton, Aurora Nealand, Mahmoud Chouki, David Buchbinder, and Chris Alford
Tuesday, June 3. The Broadside (600 N. Broad Street). 7:30PM. Scatterjazz
Scatterjazz has curated two unique sound-sculpture trios based around the always-intriguing visiting bassist Thomas Helton, based in Houston. The order of the two sets is still TBD, but on one set Thomas will be joined by Aurora Nealand on some subset of her bag of tricks, as well as Chris Alford on guitar-with-gravy, whereas the other set will include Mahmoud Chouki on various instruments made of strings and wood alongside the JUNO award-winning and wildly versatile David Buchbinder on trumpet. Fun will be had, and new things will be heard. Be there OR be somewhere-decidedly-less-hip!

The Body | Sunrot | Guts Club | Laughingthrush
Wednesday, June 4. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.
Belly Up!

Joseph Allred | Hal Lambert & Mitchell Mobley | PITH
Wednesday, June 4. Midcity Ballroom. 8PM. $10 (advance & door).
Crawford, TN post-Appalachian instrumental Americana meanderingz à la John Fahey (Joseph Allred), BR avant-minimal noisy acoustic stuff (Hal n' Mitch), PITH's début show. Flyer: https://s3.amazonaws.com/geotix-production-uploads/uploads/5bb21f68-e25e-4703-9537-100f197a8b20.jpeg

Vedas | The Pause | The Band Melrose
Thursday, June 5. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

TAG(urit) featuring Will Thompson, Chris Alford, Bruce Golden, Tyler Tadlock | Aurora Nealand
Thursday, June 5. The Zeitgeist. 7:30PM.
Crazy jazz for the kind of people who read all the fine print on every software update.

Phantum Sun | Dairy Free | Kismet
Saturday, June 7. Blue Moon Saloon (215 East Convent Street, Lafayette). 8PM.
Flyer: https://bluemoonpresents.com/web/events/phantum-sun-with-dairy-free-kismet

Garguts | Agonize | Face Off | Whitemoth, | Devotous
Saturday, June 7. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Hidden Truths and Enlightened Pirates: The David Graeber Book Club
Saturday, June 7. Jefferson Parish Library, Rosedale Branch (4036 Jefferson Highway). 12:30PM-2PM. FREE.
This is a four-month book club dedicated to works by the late anthropologist and activist David Gaeber. Book to be discussed: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

Haha Laughing | Avery Island BCE | Flying
Saturday, June 7. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

Baton Rouge Punk Rock Flea Market | Live Punk Karaoke
Sunday, June 8. Midcity Ballroom. 6PM. Hungry Ghost Collective
Punk rock karaoke with a live band, records, vendors, food truck with vegan options available.

Rookie Park | Shipwrecked | Hey Thanks
Monday, June 9. Midcity Ballroom. 8:30PM. $10.
Austin sincere emo / pop punk (Rookie Park), BR yearning indie rock / emo (Shipwrecked), Houma synthy pop / rock, evidently shorn of their previous nomenclatorial exclamation point (Hey Thanks).

Knumears | Othiel | Dremm
Wednesday, June 11. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Ryder Bach | Big Leather
Friday, June 13. The Howlin Wolf. 7PM. FREE. Howlin Wolf Booking
Alternative Indie band Big Leather, and touring musician Ryder Bach share the bill for a night of great original music.

Agriculture | Slowhole | The World Is a Vampire
Saturday, June 14. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Holy Wire | Berlin Taxi | Mere of Light | Nail Club | DJ virtue_signal
Saturday, June 14. Santos Bar. 9:30PM. $10 (advance), $15 (door).
An array of Southern retro synth pop bands + some solo avant-harpistry (Mere of Light) n' a disc jockey. "ATX's new-wave torch bearers Holy Wire have carved out a niche taking early post-punk and cold-wave sounds and refashioning them into hi-fi synth-pop."

House of Alexander Drag Brunch
Sunday, June 15. Siberia. 1PM.

JJ Shred
Sunday, June 15. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Daytripper | Totem | Gatsu | Blood & Earl | Vacillator
Monday, June 16. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Twen | Mold!
Tuesday, June 17. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Bear Hands | OK Cowgirl
Tuesday, June 17. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

Bursting | Community | Thou
Tuesday, June 17. The Broadside (600 N. Broad Street).
Belly Up! All ages.

Esther Rose
Wednesday, June 18. Siberia. 9PM.

Mayrunner | Belle Grove | Shipwrecked | Silver Cap Baby
Friday, June 20. The Feed & Seed. 8PM. $10.
Local indie rock n' emo heartthrob summit for the youth. Presented by Louisiana LOUD. Video flyer w/ band links: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJHVHPVRLhu/

Myrrs | Bipolaroid | Crush Diamond | The Unnaturals
Friday, June 20. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

Tommy Prine | Steve Judice
Friday, June 20. Red Dragon Listening Room (2401 Florida Street, Baton Rouge). 8PM. $50.
Yes, this the son of John Prine. Final concert here after 24 years; the owners are retiring. You had your chances to go, rockers. This was a punk venue that hosted Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Descendents, et al in the '80s: https://www.setlist.fm/venue/jacys-baton-rouge-la-usa-43d753f3.html. https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1221654523304661&id=100063803730401

Muscle | Swampgrave | Phallic Laceration | Human Instinct
Saturday, June 21. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

FR33SOL | Lavva
Friday, June 27. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Haggus
Friday, June 27. No Dice (2339 St. Claude Avenue). 9PM.

Goya | Bronco
Saturday, June 28. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Felicity | Dizzy! | Across Phoenix |Tony Testa
Tuesday, July 1. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Dance Romance
Saturday, July 5. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.
Lady Gaga Night.

Hidden Truths and Enlightened Pirates: The David Graeber Book Club
Saturday, July 5. Jefferson Parish Library, Rosedale Branch (4036 Jefferson Highway). 12:30PM-2PM. FREE.
This is a four-month book club dedicated to works by the late anthropologist and activist David Gaeber. Book to be discussed: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Leopardo | New Fools | Spllit
Wednesday, July 9. Saturn Bar. 9PM. $12. Booking
Leopardo all the way from Biel, Switzerland to bring you lysergic rock n roll!! You do not want to miss this beauty. Supported by New Orlean's own (1) New Fools: full of righteous morotik indie grooves, and (2) Spllit: mutant punks who have a penchant for pop art experimentalia.

Slumbag Sun
Wednesday, July 9. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Splatterday Night: A Synthwave Party
Saturday, July 12. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Crystal Lake | Vctms | Not Enough Space | Face Yourself
Tuesday, July 15. Southport Hall. 7PM. $20 (advance), $25 (door).
Metalcore / nü-screamy metal bands. Crystal Lake (Tokyo) formed in 2002 and signed to Century Media (now a subsidiary of Sony) last year. "Members stated that the band are influenced mostly by newer metalcore acts such as Shai Hulud, Earth Crisis and Hatebreed as well as other melodic metalcore bands like The Ghost Inside or Parkway Drive." - Wikipedia. Lead axeman Yudai "YD" Miyamoto is their only original member. Extremely pessimistic Illinois rockers VCTMS have drum n' bass beats & samples in some songs, creating an industrial sound not unlike The Prodigy or Prong meets screamo.

Ouija Macc
Tuesday, July 15. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Lifeguard
Thursday, July 17. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Girl In A Coma
Friday, July 18. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Alfred Banks | La Reezy | Kaye the Beast
Saturday, July 19. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Kaleidoscope Crux | Swinging Astrid | Across Phoenix
Monday, July 21. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Sub-Division
Friday, July 25. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.

Mobley | Alexis & The Sanity | AJ Haynes
Saturday, July 26. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Dear Silas
Monday, July 28. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Primus | MonoNeon
Monday, July 28. Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal Street). 8PM. $60+.
The aging funk jesters break in their new (9th) drummer John Hoffman on this tour. Will the toys go winding down? Strangely-clad avant-groove bassist MonoNeon, clearly an acolyte of Les Claypool, opens. He was briefly in Prince's band.

“Weird Al” Yankovic | Puddles Pity Party
Tuesday, July 29. Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal Street). 8PM. $59 - $129; VIP meet & greet upgrade $239 extra.
The curiously-maned comedy rocker “brings his legendary full-production multimedia comedy rock show back to the concert stage with the BIGGER & WEIRDER 2025 Tour, playing his iconic hits as well as some never-performed-live-before fan favorites.” This will likely sell out ~half a year in advance, so true punx should act fast.

Harbour
Tuesday, August 5. Gasa Gasa. 8PM.

Hemlock
Friday, August 8. Acadiana Center for the Arts Moncus Theater (101 W Vermilion Street, Lafayette). 7:30PM. $25.
"Carolina Chauffe, the voice and songwriting force behind the project hemlock, returns to their hometown of Lafayette, LA for a collaborative performance featuring a one-night-only cast of notable Louisiana inspirations, mentors, and friends. Formed in 2018, hemlock is the 'phone-fi' alt-folk project of the swamp-raised, multi-disciplinary creative force Chauffe and various rotating collaborators, currently anchored between Louisiana, Austin, and Chicago, but more often on the highway." No opening act mentioned. acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/hemlock/?occurrence=2025-08-08

New Orleans Area DIY Events and Shows