Rehage Entertainment (Voodoo Music Experience, Essence Festival) has announced that M.I.A. will play the parking lot/warehouse across from d.b.a. (619 Frenchmen St.) on Saturday, May 3rd at 11pm.
The Lineup:
M.I.A. (Late)
Preservation Hall (Later)
?uestlove (DJ Set) (Real real late)
Tickets are $25 and available through Ticketmaster.
With one act up for a 2008 Big Easy Entertainment award (Chef Menteur’s up against MC Trachiotomy and Quintron for “Best Electronica Artist”), local label Backporch Revolution is throwing its hat into the ring for 2009 as they release two albums this week: Potpie’s Potpie Plays the Classics and Liteworks’ Sound Sensation.
Liteworks is Mike Mayfield of Electrical Spectacle and Buttons fame. Sound Sensation is available for free and can be downloaded here.
Potpie Plays the Classics is the last album Potpie recorded before leaving New Orleans, and is available only at McKeown’s Books and Difficult Music.
According to Michael Patrick Welch, Noizefest is indeed going to happen on Saturday, May 3rd (noon ’til 5am Sunday morning) at 609 Lesseps St. They need artists to play alongside those who’ve already committed: Rob Cambre, DJ Twist, Mikroshards, Vargr Wulf, Quintron, Ratty Scurvics, Paint With Music, Ray Bong, Dave Hyman (of Triple Delight), the dude from HateMoms, PinkySquish (Dan from Chef Menteur), LOID (Dan from New Moon).
Says Welch: “
Personally, in my experience, NOIZEFEST is the only event in the city that celebrates a scene more than its individual components. Really, there is no real SCENE of anything in New Orleans. There are certain New Orleans people and entities that good times revolve around, so tons of us show up, sure. But a real SCENE is something in which EVERYONE is (almost) EQUALLY important. HELP SUPPORT NOIZEFEST AND HELP SUPPORT THE UNDERGROUND NON-TRADITIONAL MUSIC SCENE.”
If you’re interested in playing or helping some other way, e-mail Michael Welch here.
To all the people who think that New Orleans metal is Eyehategod and Soilent Green and Goatwhore and Crowbar and Down, to all the people who think that New Orleans hardcore is nonexistent, that it manifests every six months or never—here’s a big ol’ swinging set of balls dangling in your face. Frankenstein balls, to be precise. Resurrected from pieces broken off of Katrina-killed bands like Rat in a Bucket, Cancer Patient and Scrotesque come five of the nicest, hardest working, unrelenting brahs this side of The Parish. Drummer Keith Sierra and vocalist Shaun Emmons (of Rat in a Bucket) joined bassist Ryan Pomes and the dual axemen Grant Tom (Cancer Patient) and Jason Cook (Scrotesque) to form Haarp. They recently completed a self-titled EP that captures the perfect balance between the grit and organic tones of hardcore punk with the operatic arrangements and tight execution of heavy metal. Probing the pain of consciousness much like the monster who never asked to be created in the first place, Haarp relates each pang one blood-curdling riff, one tortured howl at a time. ANTIGRAVITY caught up with Haarp one evening to discuss former lives, metal voices and true audience terror. Head bangers and thrashers alike, prepare for the new era. (more…)
“You do you, I’m a do me—and don’t come between this here.” With this simple yet profound declaration, Lil’ Doogie introduced himself to the world a little over a year ago on his website, lildoogie.com. He has since become an internet sensation, posting videos of the adventures that take him from the deepest recesses of West Bank garage hang-outs to the heart of New Orleans, even showing up during Mardi Gras on local TV network WGNO’s report from the Endymion parade. If you’ve been following him then you’re familiar with his spicy-tongued rants on all things related to the thug life. You may even be sporting his face on a Dirty Coast t-shirt that asks quite simply, “Brah, I’m real?” Well, long-time fans, you might be in for a surprise. ANTIGRAVITY was recently contacted by Lil’ Doogie because he had something “to tell them people.” We met up at the park on a nice Sunday afternoon to find out what he had to say and, as you’ll shortly find out, it was quite the eye-opener. (more…)
Gabe Soria recently moved back to New Orleans from Brooklyn, NY. In the late ‘90s, Soria worked the Wednesday shift at Oak Street’s More Fun Comics (that’s new comics day for you uninitiated folk), where the store credit he earned slinging sequential art helped balance his comic habit with his fledgling career as a freelance writer. Soria bounced between Las Vegas and New York in the early ‘00s, where his work appeared in publications like Mojo, Arthur, Film Threat and Blender. His time in New York treated him well: in addition to meeting his wife and having a son, he got to network and become friends with a veritable Who’s Who of indie comics: Dean Haspiel (The Quitter, Billy Dogma), Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Matt Madden (Black Candy, A Fine Mess) and Paul Pope (THB, 100). So it’s fitting that as Soria returns to the city he once helped supply comics to he’s pushing a comic of his own. (more…)
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