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JiREH | Ben Bell & The Stardust Boys | How High the Moon | Few Blue | 2/4 Flinchin
Thursday, September 12. Chelsea’s Live (1010 Nicholson Dr., Baton Rouge). 8PM. $10 (advance), $15 (door).
The Stew: A Local Music Showcase. Presented by Harmonic Stew. IGz: @jirehpc @benbellmusic @howhighthemoonband @fewblueofficial @2_4flinchin. Out of these acts, HHTM will be the most of interest to angsty NOLADIYers. Flyer: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/851f11_3f6ef1a891a24b7c8ed54dd5645985cd~mv2.jpeg

Greazy Alice | Not Exotic
Friday, September 13. BJ's Lounge (4301 Burgundy Street). 9PM.

Steef | Drugstore Lipstick | Morgan Orion and the Afterburners | James Johnson, Jr. | Saint Ampersand
Saturday, September 14. Fred Hampton Free Store (5523 St Claude Avenue). 8PM. $10.
A fundraiser for New Orleans Independent tv show HOBO FOR MAYOR

Elastic Medium | Lingua Lucem | Empty Model | Glass Machine | Luminance SF Spectra
Sunday, September 15. Okay Bar. 8PM. $10.
Free improv, drone, sculptures of light, radio transmissions, and noise. Elastic Medium is on tour from Richmond.

Oh Dang | Night Medicine
Wednesday, September 18. Okay Bar (1700 Port Street). 8PM.

Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne | Trevor Dunn | Jeff “JD” Pinkus
Wednesday, September 18. The Varsity. 8PM. $29.50.
KB: Melvins, Fecal Matter, Fantômas, etc. TD: Mr. Bungle, John Zorn groups, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3, Trio-Convulsant, Melvins Lite, Tomahawk, etc. JDP: Butthole Surfers, Daddy Longhead, Honky, Areola 51, Melvins, etc. Experience bits and pieces of all the bands you once warned yourself about! Reminiscent of the mind-boggling Fantômas (Buzzo, Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Dunn) + Trio-Convulsant (Dunn, Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith) concert at HøB on 4/5/05. But this one will likely be less conceptually brutal and more sludgy / grungy / metallic. There will almost surely be Melvins chestnuts bandied about, just like our ancestors did with John Denver & Joni songs around the campfire. No opening act mentioned as of early Feb., unless it’s Pinkus doing his banjocore thing solo. Flyer: blocktickets-development.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/448824e1bd3199b58f5106e70631d833.png

Riarosa | Shmoo | Lyla George
Thursday, September 19. Saturn Bar. 9 M. $10.
Onslaught of winsome local indie pop / dream pop / slowpop type bands to usher out the summer. “join us for an evening of dreams, dancing, and delights...” (Baton Rouge’s Riarosa may be billing themselves as Ria Rosa now.) Flyer: https://dice-media.imgix.net/attachments/2024-09-07/89e036c1-a7ae-45e6-bb2c-7e23856c555d.jpg or https://www.instagram.com/p/C_d8MgcvhNB

Wojtek | Swamp Hunny
Friday, September 20. Holy Diver (1200 St. Bernard Avenue). 9PM.
The headliner is presumably NOLA improvisational musician Wojtek Industries; IG: wojtek_industries

Flagman | Benedetto | Josh October
Saturday, September 21. Bear’s (1401 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport). 9PM.
Energetic trio from the land of Disney World providing wacky Mr. Bungle / Primus / Devo / SOAD type dada rock / funk metal. flagman.bandcamp.com. “Local support from Shreveport favorites.” https://facebook.com/events/1084036690017393

D. Sablu | Dyiosa | Mire Child | Itchy Kisses | Goddess Complex | DJ Baddlucclex | DJ FaerieGothmother | Baku | Coffinwolf Ultra | DJ Ashton/Cutupqeen | Delish Da Goddess | Flower | SheNut | Uhuruverse Tattoos
Saturday, September 21. Siberia. 3PM. $25.
Come join us at Y.O.K.O. FEST as we celebrate and honor the legacy of Yoko. It's all about Justice for Yoko and spreading love through music, art, and good vibes. Get ready for a day filled with live performances, delicious food, and a community that's all about unity. Let's come together to remember Yoko in the best way possible. Don't miss out on this unforgettable event! See you there!

Cat Power
Sunday, September 22. Civic Theatre. 8PM. $55 - $225.
"Cat Power sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert." All Bob covers; 7 acoustic songs followed by 8 electric ones. Make sure to shout “Judas!” at her at just the right moment. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Power_Sings_Dylan:_The_1966_Royal_Albert_Hall_Concert A rare chance to see the mercurial, honey-voiced Chan “Cat Power” Marshall in the Pelican State. Her previous known gigs have been: Ca. June ‘97 @ the Mermaid Lounge (now The Rusty Nail). Apparently the opening act, Two Dollar Guitar (feat. Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley) doubled as her backing band on this tour. She reportedly had one of her then-frequent nervous breakdowns, at one point reading the newspaper aloud to the paltry crowd in this non-air-conditioned dive club with her back turned to them. She covered Dylan’s “Moonshiner” back in these days. Sep. ‘98 @ The Bayou in Baton Rouge (which burned down in ‘03 & is now City Slice Pizza). Apparently the Georgia band Smoke opened; she’s from that state. March ‘03 @ The Howlin’ Wolf (now Republic). Her highest-profile era, around the time she played on Letterman (introduced by Paul Shaffer as “Cat Powers!”) & was on the cover of three or four major music mags simultaneously. Reports were that this was just as disastrous as her ‘97 show blocks away at the Mermaid. Local indie pop singer Blair opened. Sep. ‘04 @ HOB Parish. Read about her alarmingly bizarre antics at https://odetochan.forumgratuit.org/t203-9-20-04-new-orleans-la-the-parish-at-the-house-of-blues. Entrance (Guy Blakeslee of psych rockers The Convocation Of…) opened, solo, & played some guitar for her. But she mostly played solo on guitar & piano, stopping & restarting various songs, apologizing, saying she wanted someone to kill her, etc. Dec. ‘13 @ HOB. She seemed more comfortable playing live (in her R&B era), & wore a black Wu-Tang Clan tee. But her strange issues persisted: http://afteriwasdead.blogspot.com/2013/12/are-you-mad-at-me.html. Nico Turner opened. The moral is: You never know what to expect at a Cat Power concert, even at one like this with a pre-planned setlist. Flyer: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1007569244271722

Curse | Tina Beef | Nonlethal Weapons
Tuesday, September 24. Fred Hampton Free Store (5523 St Claude Avenue). 8PM. $10.
Curse is the long running experimental industrial two piece from Baltimore returning to New Orleans with locals Tina Beef and Nonlethal Weapons opening. Many loud drum machines and synthesizer sounds.

Dinosaur Jr.
Wednesday, September 25. Tipitina's. 8:30PM. $35 (advance).
“In the decades since the release of Dinosaur Jr.'s original triptych of foundational albums, it has become clear that their sound -- once hailed as a sort of almost-tamed noise -- is/was/always-has-been fully functioning pop music of a sort. The subsequent generations of bands who grew up breathing Dino's fumes managed to tinker around with the edges of their original post-hardcore song-forms enough for listeners to realize there had always been melodies at the center of everything they did. What Dinosaur Jr. produces is nothing but a beautiful new version of the rock continuum -- riff, power, beat and longing, created with an eye on the infinite future.” Opener TBA. Relive their first(?) deafening NOLA visit at https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dinosaur-jr/1989/jimmys-new-orleans-la-3bdd8c34.html. Flyer: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=996290591865121

Gold Connections | Sleep Habits | Former Child Athletes
Friday, September 27. Carrollton Station. 9PM. $8 (advance).
As usual, this club didn’t bother to describe any of the performers, but it’s a NOLA x NOLA event, thus all local acts.

Skeletal Remains | Bewitcher | Phobophilic | Torture Rack
Friday, September 27. Southport Hall. 7PM. $25. NOLA Party Productions
Skeletal Remains is death metal from Los Angeles, CA on Century Media Records. Bewitcher is black/speed metal from Portland, OR on Century Media Records. Phobophillic is death metal from Forgo, ND on Prosthetic Records. Torture Rack is death metal from Portland, OR on 20 Buck Spin.

Blue Widow | The Fizgigs | Sunkissed
Saturday, September 28. Blue Moon Saloon (215 E. Convent Street, Lafayette). 8PM.
B.R. weirdo prog pop (Blue Widow), Lafayette “psychedelic fuzz folk tree-hugger indie rock” (Fizgigs), probably more irreverent local indie pop or rock (Sunkissed).

The Bloomies | Pig Lizzard | Kinky Vanilla | Midriff
Saturday, September 28. Carrollton Station. 9PM. $10.

Pig Chicken Suicide | Shitload | Fucked in the Head
Saturday, September 28. Poor Boys. 9PM. $10. Booking
Happening September 28th, we have Panama City Grinders, Pig Chicken Suicide being backed up by legendary NOLA Noisecore Shitload and Sludge masters Fucked in the Head.

Tasche de la Rocha | Ryder The Eagle | Mango
Saturday, September 28. Saturn Bar. 8PM. $15.
“Ryder The Eagle, a french artist based in Mexico City, joined by local champs Mango & Tasche.” “Local psych soul” (TDLR), “one man pop from Toulouse France” (RTE), “local dream” (Mango). Early show; doors at 7. Flyer: https://dice-media.imgix.net/attachments/2024-08-05/c19a6ba4-39f1-4831-8783-1394a8b02dbf.jpg

Upon a Burning Body | Wasted
Sunday, September 29. Southport Hall. 7PM. $18 (advance), $22 (door).
San Antonio x-treme groove thrash metal, highly & unabashedly influenced by statemates Pantera, as seen in song titles like “Built From War” (like “Mouth For War”), “Southern Hostility” (like “The Great Southern Trendkill” x “Fucking Hostile”), “Reinventing Hatred” (like “Reinventing the Steel”), “Humbling My Skin” (like “Shedding Skin”), etc. Huh-huh, Beavis… Wasted = “PUSSY POPPIN DEATHCORE FROM THE 504.”

Helmet | Local H
Wednesday, October 2. Southport Hall. 7:30PM. $30.
Tour flyer: https://www.instagram.com/helmet_music/reel/C9fHd79JLSJ

Mannequin Pussy | Margaritas Podridas
Thursday, October 3. The Varsity. 8PM. $29.28.
Mannequin Pussy is Philly punky indie rock & still some brutal noise rock moments amid their more radio-ready, ‘70s-meets-‘90s current sound. Brief (30 min.) new LP “eschews the band's previous focus on love songs and political themes to explore issues related to personal relationships, religious themes, and emotions related to aging, inspired by art films, a break-up, and pigs.” – Wikipedia. RIYL: Hole, Torcher, Rainer Maria. Margaritas Podridas is Sonora, MX dirgey grunge / stoner / sleaze rock à la early Sup Pop.

Riverwolves | John Calvin | Jim Reed
Friday, October 4. Bear’s (1401 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport). 9PM.
SVPT “drunk folk” / Americana stuff. Flyer: https://facebook.com/events/1284417902543763

Johnny Marr | James
Friday, October 4. Fillmore (6 Canal Street). 8PM. $79.50 - $234.80.
Some concert prices are bigger than others… This will evidently only be the jangle guitar maestro’s third time setting black boot in Louisiana since https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-smiths/1986/mcalister-auditorium-tulane-university-new-orleans-la-2bd7d42e.html, along with two appearances as a member of Modest Mouse at HØB in ‘07. Actually, he might’ve played here as a member of The The from ‘88-‘94, but it’s impossible to look up that band’s name on that setlist site. James, also hard to look up online, are best known for their cheeky ‘93 hit “Laid.”

Devin the Dude
Saturday, October 5. The Varsity. 8PM. $26 (advance), $31 (door).
Mumbly, nonchalant Houston rapper with spacey flows, formerly of the Coughee Brothaz a.k.a. the Odd Squad. An underground favorite for 30ish years, and allegedly “Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.” Opening act(s) TBA; these indie rap shows usually have a bunch of irritating ones for your amusement. Flyer: https://varsitytheatre.com/events/?event_id=TWL1368211

Darsombra | FatPlastik | Crush Diamond.
Sunday, October 6. Fred Hampton Free Store (5523 St Claude Avenue). 7PM. $10 (NOTAFLOF). Booking
Belly Up presents... Darsombra is a trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock duo from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Known internationally for walking the line between glam-prog-psych-stoner metal and site-specific installation performance art, their hallucinogenic live audio-visual shows are often met with the following responses: “I didn’t know what to expect, but that was awesome”, “I’ve never seen anything like that before”, and “it was like tripping on acid, without the acid.” The band has a committed DIY cottage industry ethic, self-producing their music and videos and booking their own tours globally. They bring a stadium show in a cargo van or a handful of suitcases, and have performed in 48 states and 20 countries worldwide since their inception in 2005.

The Pulsars | Silver Synthetic | Satan's Trash
Tuesday, October 8. Santos Bar. 9PM. $10.
"The Pulsars was a new wave/indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, led by Dave Trumfio and his brother, Harry Trumfio. They signed to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's Almo Sounds label and recorded two albums in the mid-1990] one of which was released and another that has yet to be released." Silver Synthetic: New Orleans rock and roll quartet with some releases on Third Man Records. Satan's Trash: Offshoot of local nu metal/crunk legends She Would.

Cannons | Glass Spells
Thursday, October 10. Chelsea’s Live (1010 Nicholson Dr., Baton Rouge). 8PM. $37.50 (advance), $137.50 (VIP meet & greet + pic & poster).
L.A. neo-retro chillwave / smoove R&B / fashion-centric synth pop trio “bringing you some future boogie.” Kinda like a B97 version of Purity Ring or Desire meets Kylie Minogue. This show follows their summer tour opening big venues for the irredeemably bad Imagine Dragons. You probably should’ve seen them at this same club 2.5 years earlier for much cheaper. Glass Spells are a San Diego synthwave duo straight outta ‘82, with Tumblr-y lyrics about crystals, obsession, ghosts, fear, sleep, etc. Artsier & more focused than the headliners. Tour poster: https://www.instagram.com/cannonstheband/p/C-AzcFDvloa

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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