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High | Blanket of M | Chemical City Rebels | Corker
Saturday, October 12. Intracoastal Club (8448 Main Street, Houma). 9PM.
NOLA indie rock (HiGH), Tyler, TX punk n’ roll (Blanket of M), B.R. emo (Chemical City Rebels), BR. garage punk (Corker). https://facebook.com/events/1182728576146467

Head Cannon | Tidus | Doggish
Saturday, October 12. Mid City Ballroom (136 S. Acadian Thruway, Baton Rouge) [late show]. 9:30PM. $10.
Local punk / post-hardcore angst. This show follows the 7 PM Tommy Stinson one. Flyer: https://bontempstix.com/events/head-cannon-titus-doggish-late-show-following-tommy-stinson-10-12-2024

Tommy Stinson
Saturday, October 12. Midcity Ballroom. 7PM. $25 (general) - $100 (meet & greet).
Tommy Stinson of The Replacements & Guns N’ Roses. Evidently no opening act. Exactly 10 meet & greet tickets are being sold at https://bontempstix.com/events/hang-with-tommy-10-12-2024 Lefty at Euclid Records in NOLA saw the ‘Mats back in the day (I think at Tipitina’s in ‘91) if you wanna pick his brain about that show. This show will be followed by a 9 PM one w/ local punkers Head Cannon + Tidus + Doggish. Only a true loser wouldn’t stick around for that one too.

Glass Beams
Tuesday, October 15. The Joy Theater. 8PM. $25+ (advance).
“Glass Beams, the enigmatic Melbourne-based band, draws inspiration from their Indian heritage, infusing their serpentine psychedelia with cosmic instrumentation and worldly polyrhythms. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but [LP] Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.” The trio performs their meandering, mostly-instrumental musik in bejeweled masks with no evident eyeholes. This is their first Louisiana concert. They’re a word-of-mouth sensation with 800k Instagram followers despite having never been reviewed, or even mentioned by, onetime hipster barometer Pitch4k. Opening act TBA. Check out the terrific pyramidal graphic design of the rockers’ logo on the flyer: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=761388179522420

King Sans | Offseason | The Bomb Pulse
Wednesday, October 16. Saturn Bar. 9 PM.
King Sans is “Chicago's altrock / noisepunk duo.” O = “LOUDEST BAND IN THE MIDWEST.” Would either of these bands be classified as “Midwest Emo”? Show up to find out. (One can recall seeing a pair or early Midwest emo bands, The Promise Ring & Compound Red, in Oct. ‘97 at the Mermaid Lounge and not being moved.) The Bomb Pulse are NOLA retro garage rock / blues punque. Yes, the band itself capitalizes the second word. IGs: kingsans.band, offseason.band, thebombpulse. This show occurs in the blank 10/16 field the visiting bands left on their tour poster: instagram.com/p/C_3rafdx-rC

Dremm | Knife in a Gun Fight | Silent Solace | As My Will Caves | Dj Meta
Thursday, October 17. Fred Hampton Freestore (5523 St Claude Avenue). 7:30PM. $10 NOTAFLOF.
Come throwdown at the "Brouillette & Bettencourt Beatdown extravaganza" featuring an all Northshore lineup of early 2000's Skramz / Screamo & Metalcore bands. BYOB, Bring a costume & skateboard. Flyer link : https://www.instagram.com/silentsolaceband/p/DAQHzpcxwcT/

Red Hot Gentilly Peppers | Sweet Magnolia
Friday, October 18. Carrollton Station. 9PM.
A very ‘90s Halloween.

A Sharing Circle
Saturday, October 19. Neutral ground at Esplanade Ave (between Burgundy and Dauphine). FREE.
Hosted by 42 Company. Meets weekly for the entire Fall season; 1st and 3rd Saturdays 12-? 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 3-? Everyone is welcome; bring your voice, your ears, your skills, your friends, chairs, bug spray, etc... We are increasingly active on the open source socials: app.element.io and mastodon.social as @42GM or #theopenworldof42 We can be reached for questions and convos at: 42pigeon@protonmail.com

French Police | Wisteria
Saturday, October 19. Santos Bar. 10PM. $20 (advance).
French Police are a Chicago monotone-vox, oft sunglasses-clad, Latino jangle-goth / nü-coldwave trio à la She Wants Revenge, early Bunnymen, Twin Tribes, Necropolis of Love, Interpol, etc. They have that boingy-boingy guitar sound – you know the sound – with all the arena rock tweaked out of it. And guaranteed zero power chords. As for the relatively high ticket price, they have apparently gained mucho popularity in the two years since they played w/ three other bands in the same vein (Blood Club, Lesser Care, Haunt Me) to about 15 appreciative souls at Gasa Gasa. Several of their cuts now have 2+ million listens on Spotify. Enough numbers; just listen. frenchpolice.bandcamp.com. Wisteria are City of Angels dream pop-inflected twilight synth pop not unlike New Order or today’s countless New Order acolytes, or Wild Nothing’s more electronic moments. wisteriawisteria.bandcamp.com. Knowing this bar and these types of shows, don’t be surprised if a local opening act is added low-key. Flyer: https://i.ticketweb.com/i/00/12/29/10/04_Original.jpg

Divide and Dissolve | Silver Godling | Plomo
Saturday, October 19. Siberia. 9PM.

Like Murder
Saturday, October 19. Twist of Lime.
Acid Bath tribute band. “Celebrating 30 years of When The Kite String Pops.” Tour poster: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=8037505746325919

Sunset Rubdown | Sister Ray
Sunday, October 20. Chelsea's Live (1010 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge). 8PM. $20 (advance), $25 (door).
Quirky Canadian indie popsters Sunset Rubdown’s only other known LA show was right up the street at the Spanish Moon on 9/26/08, weeks before recording its swansong, DRAGONSLAYER. The yelpy, anxious, Modest Mouse-y quintet has reformed & dropped its first album in 15 years, ALWAYS HAPPY TO EXPLODE. Well are ya, punk?

Tatsuya Nakatani, Stoo Odom & Myles Boisen | short film by Nasca Car
Monday, October 21. The Zeitgeist. 7:30PM.
Nakatani is a percussionist from Kobe, Japan. Go to https://www.discogs.com/artist/378774-Tatsuya-Nakatani to see all the freaking groups this bro has been in, one of which is a gong orchestra. Imagine living next door to their practice facility. Or watch this intense live trio clip of him in 2k12 by yours truly: https://youtu.be/U_kawTZ-OYc. Zero likes! The opening film (no title given thus far) is by an Osakan director.

John Oates
Wednesday, October 23. Acadiana Center For the Arts (101 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette). 7:30PM. $78 - $128.
Robin… Costello… Barney (Rubble & Fife)… Garfunkel… Ono… Shirley… Teller… Pippen… Costanza… Garth… Willow… Klay… Oates. The Onion named his 2002 effort Punk Shui the year’s “least essential album,” further relegating him to scrappy sidekick status. Does he play a leading role in your life?

Degenerate Picnik
Wednesday, October 23. Old Point Bar (545 Patterson Street). 9PM.
Bywater “Psychedelic Blues Rock band with heavy soul, snakey rhythms and blazing guitars.” Tom Waits fans may be interested in the vocals.

Basher | Precious Cargo
Wednesday, October 23. Saturn Bar. 9PM.

Opeth | Tribulation
Wednesday, October 23. The Fillmore (6 Canal Street). 7:30PM. $71+.
Two Swedish metal acts. The headliners went from standard growly death metal to more pretentious & proggy fare a few decades ago, as one witnessed at their debut Louisiana gig a few blocks away in May ‘03. They boast none of their original members, but their singer has been with them since ‘92. To put that in perspective, that’s when MTV’s The Real World debuted and (the next day) Johnny Carson retired. The openers began as the usual Swedish death / black metal, but now incorporate a more groove-oriented gothic metal thing.

Dehd
Saturday, October 26. Chickie Wah Wah. 8PM. $21 (advance).
Chicago trio with oft-shouty naïf coed vox over retro cowpop / jangle pop, like the K Records aesthetic meets Violent Femmes or Girlpool. No opening act mentioned after 2 months of waiting. Call club. (Be sure and tell ‘em LARGE MARGE sent ya.)

Acid Mothers Temple | Spirit Mother | Vorhex Angel
Saturday, October 26. Siberia. 9PM. $25.

Michael Hurley | Kassi Valazza | The Lostines
Sunday, October 27. Saturn Bar. 7PM. $18 (advance).
Yes, this is the cult underground Pennsylvania singer / songwriter / guitarist, born two weeks after Pearl Harbor in ‘41. (9/11 contained an aspect of clever false flag homage to the semi-false flag of Pearl Harbor, b/c Buildings 1, 2 & 7 fell, matching the earlier incident’s 12/7 date.) His unpretentious songs have been covered by the kool post-Americana likes of Violent Femmes, Cat Power, Espers, Vetiver, etc. He will be accompanied with vocals by Kassi Valazza and Merle Law, and guitar by Lewi Longmire. Valazza’s own set will provide “a spellbinding collection of songs that dangle like protective magic talismans, catching dreams and glinting light.” Local folk duo The Lostines are heavily programmed into WTUL’s automated TULbot “DJ,” so you’ve heard them. It goes without saying that this will quickly sell out, probably with ppl coming in from nearby states. 240 is the capacity.

Miranda & The Beat | Lord Friday the 13th | The Nancies | Reddix-Young | DJ Kushtrim | DJ Vanta Vega | DJ Scythe
Tuesday, October 29. Santos Bar. 8PM. $12 adv/$15 door. Booking
This is the First Annual Fatal Fete as well as Miranda & The Beat's Release Party for their newest album "Can't Take It". There will be 4 bands playing on the downstairs stage and 3 DJs blasting beats upstairs. There is also a costume contest with the winner being announced at Midnight for a $100 cash prize!

Zoomst | She Might Be a Beast | Rare Seed | The Bomb Pulse
Wednesday, October 30. Santos Bar. 9PM. $10 (advance).
Four local rabble-rousing acts with amplified guitars. Zoomst: “These earthlings blend ideas from symphonic rock, swamp funk, trip-hop, and more, enrobed in textured electronic-inspired sound design.” That sounds like either the dumbest crap ever, or something pretty kool in moderate doses. Hey, you could be catching one of the top 5 post-punk bands ever (the Chameleons) a few blocks away this same night, but this is a good consolation prize and it supports local homies. Flyer: https://i.ticketweb.com/i/00/12/38/09/24_Original.jpg

The Temple of Mercy | Sub-Division | DJs
Friday, November 1. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM. $10 (advance).
A Sisters Of Mercy tribute band (billed as America’s only touring one) from Houston, + a Joy Division tribute band from NOLA, on the Day Of The Dead. S-D’s name & hyphen also hint at the early New Order song “Sub-Culture,” so maybe they tackle the New Order œuvre too. DJs (TBA) afterwards. Is it too late to ditch the DJs and add NOLA Smiths / Morrissey cover band The Gentlemen Commoners? Or The Smithsfits, the NOLA cover band that covers the Misfits in the style of the Smiths & vice versa. (Hang the DJ, as the Smiths’ “Panic” lyric instructs.) Presented by Attrition.

Trio Castus
Thursday, November 7. Performing Arts Center Recital Hall (UNO, 2000 Lakeshore Drive). 7:30PM. FREE (seat reservations encouraged).
Part of the Musical Excursions series. Seungkyu Oh, Seokhwan Choi, Seungyeon Oh.

Local Natives | Krooked Kings
Saturday, November 9. The Joy Theater. 8PM. $30 (general) - $115 (VIP “Soundcheck Party”).
Anxious, R&B-influenced existential indie pop / rock w/ some falsetto emo vox. This will probably sell out. They opened for Kings Of Leon at the Blender a decade ago, six months after a rousing headlining show at Tip’s w/ Wild Nothing.

Cashier | Seventh Cloud | Sleep Habits | Panama Papers
Friday, November 15. The Goat (1301 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM. $10.
Respectively: Lafayette heavy shoegaze / noise rock; Fort Wayne, IN ethereal shoegaze / dream pop; NOLA chill bedroom folk; NOLA splatter / noise rock chaos. Funnily enough, both Louisiana and Indiana boast a major city named Lafayette. Come see the best rock band from Louisiana’s 4th-largest city and the best one from Indiana’s 2nd-largest city. Demographics = destiny. linktr.ee/seventhcloud (this band is amazing). instagram.com/cashier.band. https://facebook.com/events/1225240945269487

Record Raid
Saturday, November 16. The Howlin Wolf. 10AM. $10 early bird (10-11), FREE (11-5).
The first Raid in two years; they used to happen 2x per year. “We'll have over 25 vendors from across the gulf region and beyond selling LPs, 45s, CDs, 78's, cassettes, turntables and more. New and especially used, valuable rarities to cheapo classics of any age or genre.” (Why is there never live music at these things?) To sell, email Hunter King (recordraid@recordraid.com) or just call him at WTUL (865-5885) on any Monday from 4-6 PM when he hosts the surf show. Details & flyer: ticketweb.com/event/record-raid-howlin-wolf-tickets/13583164

The Iceman Special | Movie Club
Sunday, November 17. Tipitina's. 10:30PM. $20.
“The Iceman Special is a 4 piece outfit transplanted from the swamps of Louisiana to the big city of New Orleans. Screeching yet smooth guitars, wandering yet punchy bass lines, electronic synth samples, driving drum beats and powerful vocals form one a kind soundscapes. Who is the Iceman?” “Formed in October 2018, Movie Club is a minimalist instrumental duo out of Venice Beach, CA. They believe in the power of a strong and simple union between two instruments to cut through the oversaturated, overproduced music of today. Movie Club is Jessamyn Violet on drums and Vince Cuneo on guitar.” Check their surfy stoner rock “Bones” music vid. Flyer: instagram.com/p/C-p5q2bRchG

Total Hell | Kill the Hippies | M.O.T.O. | Schizos | Secret 5th thing
Thursday, November 21. Santos Bar. 8:30PM. $15-20. Clickem Youth
THE ROCKENING night 1. I’ll just let Bryan write something. Tix = $20 month of show; $15 now. SANTOSBAR.COM then click on their calendur. Or! instygram @b8bot__the_rockening_ for GOLDEN PASSES ($60 now; $80 later) to all three main shows + afterparties/day party . Updates there too. Or write circlebarbooking@gmail.com if you’re very confused.

Evil Tree | Glue Man | Dummy Dumpster
Friday, November 22. Holy Diver (1200 St. Bernard Avenue). 11:59PM. $10. Clickem Youth
Afterparty to the ZEROS / HEAD / SICK THOUGHTS show. This is at Holy Diver (formerly Sidney’s). Free entry if you have a wrockening wristband.

Zeroes 77 | Head | Sick Thoughts | Fat Savage | Luxurious Faux Furs
Friday, November 22. Santos Bar. 8:30PM. $20-25. Clickem Youth
THE ROCKENING night 2. Tix = $25 month of show; $20 now. SANTOSBAR.COM then click on their calendur. Or! instygram @b8bot__the_rockening_ for GOLDEN PASSES ($60 now; $80 later) to all three main shows + afterparties/day party.

The Nancies | D. Sablu | Nail Club
Saturday, November 23. Checkpoint Charlie's. 11:59PM. FREE. Clickem Youth
Afterparty to the 100 Flowers / Nots / Gary Wrong show a couple bloxx away. No cover!

100 Flowers | Nots | Gary Wrong Group | Hibachi Stranglers | Doom 3
Saturday, November 23. Santos Bar. 8:30PM. $25-30. Clickem Youth
THE ROCKENING night 3. Far out man what year is it anyway and why is everyone from Mobile?? Tix = $30 month of show; $25 now. SANTOSBAR.COM then click on their calendur. Or! instygram @b8bot__the_rockening_ for GOLDEN PASSES ($60 now; $80 later) to all three main shows + afterparties/day party tba

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