Krewe du Vieux + La Maison

Caddywhompus

Giant Cloud

Jean-Eric

The Krewe du Vieux after-show at La Maison was a pretty special event this year. Park the Van Records planned an awesome showcase with Caddywhompus, The Bellys, Giant Cloud, and Jean-Eric. The highlight of the night was the impromptu march through the venue by the Noicisian Coalition and the Camel Toe Lady Steppers. Gotta love Carnival!

Jean-Eric was a special treat, pretty much reminded me of a band that Punky Brewster would put together. ( = Awesome.)

Here's a video treat of Jean-Eric...

Jean-Eric | Krewe du Vieux | 2010 from Rachel Puckett on Vimeo.

Sun Hotel releases EP

I fell in love with these guys during our last Noir Collective project where we helped combine local music with the film project, 50 People 1 Question. They've just released their latest EP, Team Spirit, and you've got to check out the song Swamp Thing.

This is a pretty young band in New Orleans, but is a combination of some pretty impressive players. You'll find the Caddywhompus kids and Gamma Ringo kids among the bunch .... check it out.

LIMEWIRE RELEASES NOLA SAMPLER

So, exciting stuff from LimeWire store, which who even knew was a thing. (Guess they're trying to adapt the iTunes Store model here, which best of luck to them on that.) I for one haven't used LimeWire in probably 5 years (50 years in Internet Time), but for awhile there it was the place to illegally download tunes. In any event, they seem to have remade themselves into a place that puts together great (free) online sampler CDs. They've combined forces with Gambit and put together a pretty good little set of local bands for this thing. I've attached the press release below. Enjoy!


LimeWire Store Releases
EAR TO THE GROUND: NEW ORLEANS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK, NY - January 20, 2010 - LimeWire Store has exclusively released EAR TO THE GROUND: NEW ORLEANS curated by the staff at Gambit, New Orleans' alt-weekly paper. The 19-track free sampler features songs from an array of artists toiling away within NOLA's diverse indie-music scene, including songs from local faves GIVERS, Lovey Dovies, The White Bitch, MyNameIsJohnMichael, and Generationals.

"We're beyond excited to be working with the LimeWire Store on our first-ever New Orleans music compilation," said Gambit's Editor, Kevin Allman. "And we're looking forward to taking listeners way off Bourbon Street to discover a side of New Orleans music they've never heard."

"Most folks know that New Orleans is ripe with amazing jazz and zydeco musicians, but there's a whole lot more going on down there," said Tom Monday, Director of Partner Relations at LimeWire Store. "Our partners at Gambit turned us on to bands and artists that we wouldn't have heard of otherwise, which is exactly what we hope for when producing these regional samplers. We hope this compilation shines a light on the spectrum of interesting sounds coming out of New Orleans these days. "

For further information, please contact Tom Monday, Director of Partner Relations at 212.775.3050 or tmonday@limewire.com


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Rotary Downs
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What We're Listening To

Hey y'all,

Sorry I've been M.I.A. for awhile with the posts. Christmas, New Year's, start of a new semester (yes, still a student), the Saints taking up every ounce of my conscious state... But now, with two weeks left to go to the Super Bowl, thought I'd take a minute and let you know what we've been listening to in the NOIR world lately.

LOCAL

The Revivalists doing their funky thing at the Howlin' Wolf.



What with Conan O'Brien ending his term at The Tonight Show, we thought back to this great video of Theresa Andersson doing her amazing one-woman soul-folk act on his show back in February.



Awesome video of Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship doing their stomp-the-yard thing at Voodoo back in '08.



Non-Local

Great new video from the Chicago band, Filligar, one of my favorite up-and-coming bands in the country right now. The song is off their album Succession, I Guess. We hope to get these guys down to New Orleans sometime in 2010.



The Raleigh, NC band Bowerbirds do a beautiful version of their song "Northern Lights".



Trippy-as-all-hell video from Animal Collective for their unbelievable song "Brother Sport." Could be made by no one else.

Music + Tools

The New Year is fast approaching....... and we wanted to recommend a blog that could help you get started on your music career resolutions. Check out Grassrootsy if you have not already.

Grassrootsy.com provides some great tips on how to jet start your music career the indie way. Check out their tips on how to be your own publicist, free things to give your fans, drawing traffic to your website/myspace, how to score reviews on your CD and much more.

foburg.

So we have been spreading the word that we were planning something big for the spring and we finally have a website up for it. www.foburgneworleans.com

Foburg is a multi-night, multi-venue event happening March 12-14 where bands will be showcasing on Frenchman St. It's all about bringing together great local bands and touring bands to create one of the most memorable weekends in local rock scene.

The site will continue to grow with information over the coming weeks with information such programming partners, venues, sponsors and most importantly bands.

Speaking of bands, if you are in one, you should go to the site and submit. It's quick and easy.

50 people 1 question

Here at NOIRC we are excited to be co-presenting an amazing event this weekend. If you have not heard of the "50 People 1 Question" project going on, you should check it out. In fact, you should check it out Sunday, when along with Deltree, Crush + Lovely and the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, we are presenting a film music fusion project pairing 5 live music performances with 5 of the great videos from 50p1q.

http://50people1question.com

DATE: Sunday, December 6
LOCATION: New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center -- http://cacno.org
TIME: 6:30 - 9:30pm
COST: $12
PURCHASE TICKETS -- http://cacno.org or call the CAC Box Office at 504-528-3800