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The Pipeline 04.13.11

SAM BROUSSARD Guitarist and songwriter Sam Broussard is a genius. Mercurial, self-depreciating, electrifying, brilliant, eccentric, good - all of it applies to Sam. He's like Kierkegaard jamming with...

The Pipeline 04.06.11

BIKE OVER Isn't it convenient how gas prices ramp up every spring just in time for the travel season? Right! You ever take a look at the quarterly profits for Exxon/Mobile during that time? Right! You...

The Pipeline 03.30.11

EARTH SHARE When the NWO kicks in the Codex Alimentarius restrictions and we're surrounded by genetically modified foods and everything is stripped of nutritional value, you're going to be pretty...

The Pipeline 03.23.11

AUTISM BENEFIT Here's a good cause if there ever were one: Autism. I'm going to let the organizer of the event, musician Jim Nobles, tell it in his own words. I am a father of a 7-year old little girl...

The Pipeline 03.16.11

SEVEN-MILE YARD SALE It's the king of all garage sales. The annual Seven-Mile Yard Sale, between Arnaudville and Grand Coteau is back. The sale stretches along Hwy. 93 and takes place throughout both...

The Pipeline 03.09.11

ROOTS & ROLL If you're going through post-Mardi Gras withdrawal and need a quick musical fix, head out to Grant Street on March 11 and get a dose of some rootsy rock and roll. Julian Primeaux...

The Pipeline 03.02.11

MARDI GRAS WEEK: ARTMOSPHERE On March 2, El Domainia brings the old school, Oi! garage, freak folk to the stage. On March 3, Ronnie Vice hosts his resident blues jam. On March 4, Vagabond Swing kicks...

The Pipeline 02.23.11

MISS EMILY AND THE COLLARD GREENS You didn't know she had it in her, but she does. Local Lafayette girl Emily Neustrom has been quietly picking a guitar and singing songs on her own. Now she's put...

The Pipeline 02.16.11

DASH Cow punk, roots rock, country-billy, whatever you want to call it, Dash Rip Rock has been around for a while. Formed in Baton Rouge in 1984, the band took its name from the fictional character of...

The Pipeline 02.09.11

HONKY Honky traffics in Texas punk rock & roll. Part Stooges Funhouse part Urban Cowboy and part backwoods greaser, for over a decade they've been tearing up and tearing down clubs like the...

Tumbling dice with the Gillmeister

Country music heavyweight Vince Gill plays the Paragon Casino in Marksville. He has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles and sold more than 26 million albums. Country...

The Pipeline 02.02.11

GRAMMY SEND OFFS It's that time again. Dudes and chicks getting Grammys and bouncing round in ruffled tuxedos and diamonds and crap. Patting each other on the back. High fives. It's the smell of...

The Pipeline 01.26.11

CINEMA ON THE BAYOU Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival hits Lafayette Jan. 26-30 with four days of independent film screenings and industry-related schmooze and shenanigans. Participating venues...

The Pipeline 01.19.11

LIM FEST The scene was here long before any of us showed up; it'll be here long after we're gone. As long as there is one person in a back room writing a few tunes and playing them, it lives on....

The Pipeline 01.12.11

BACK WHEN I HAD NO BRAINS Funny how the older you get the more country music and jazz make sense. Not all of it. But some of it. After a certain age, you're, like, "This crap doesn't sound as bad...

The Pipeline 01.05.11

DUMPSTER DIVING Dumpster diving is an art, a contact sport and a way of life for many people who detest waste and can't afford to buy food. Nearly 900 million go hungry every year. Big number. The...

The Pipeline 12.22.10

BLACK SHEEP CHRISTMAS BALL Are your relatives starting to get on your holiday nerves? Is your dad still hassling you about getting a real job? Are you ready to get blasted and blowed-out with your...

The Pipeline 12.15.10

MEDICINE SHOW A local institution for the past decade is now an official institution of higher learnedness. We're talking about the annual Medicine Show, baby. Movie stars, rock guitars, white gold...

The Pipeline 12.08.10

IMAGINEIAM Imagine being wasted on O'Doul's and angel trumpets while floating in a bog-pond of cubic zirconium marmalade and jamming some chopped & screwed Fraggle rock tunes on your headphones....

The Pipeline 12.01.10

DSB III SKATE INVASION Real skateboarding happens in the streets. Between man and society dwells the skateboarder. The local skate crew known as DSB has been skating together for roughly eight years....

The Pipeline 11.24.10

BENEFIT THE BOOGIE Black Sabbath may have encouraged you to smoke it - amongst other things - but this local Lafayette crew of anti-smokers ain't into it. Their tobacco awareness coalition is throwing...

The Pipeline 11.17.10

COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND Lafayette is heating up. Last month big name performers Ani DiFranco and Marianne Faithfull (along with Zachary Richard, Sonny Landreth, and CC Adcock) played the For Our Coast...

The Pipeline 11.10.10

MARS AIN'T THE KIND OF PLACE TO RAISE KIDS Two lords of the ivories - Elton John and Leon Russell - join forces to do battle against the kings of sub-par songwriting and pull off the concert of the...

The Pipeline 11.03.10

MANNO TO MANO The former elected mayor of Port-au-Prince is a freaking rock star in Haiti. Yes. Born in 1948, Manno Charlemange is a political activist, folk singer, songwriter and all around magic...

The Pipeline 10.27.10

BLACKPOT Lafayette's raddest roots music festival returns this year. It's like a miniature Woodstock meets Renaissance festival for banjo geeks and roots freaks, looking to hunker down on some corn...

The Pipeline 10.20.10

KBON FEST KBON 101.1 FM is the S. If you can't get behind a locally owned Louisiana musical powerhouse situated in the heart of Cajun country and fully dedicated to promoting Louisiana musicians...

The Pipeline 10.13.10

October 13, 2010 By Dege Legg MOMIX PASA kicks off its 2010-2011 season with the physical theatre, circus athleticism and comedy of MOMIX's "Bonanica." These dancer-illusionists do some...

The Pipeline 10.06.10

FIDDLERS ON THE BAYOU Fiddlers on the Bayou is back for its third go-around. Fiddler extraordinaire David Greely of Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys organizes this gathering of preeminent Acadiana...

The Pipeline 09.29.10

ROCK THE HORSEFARM The Horse Farm is back in the news. Time to make some decisions. Do you want to chill in a beautiful, centrally located park in Lafayette or do you want to drink hot beer in a...

The Pipeline 09.22.10

ELECTROID Electronic-based music ain't all blips, beeps and tweeps. Whereas electronic music once sought to convey the cold, urban and industrial detachment of modern life, much of it now seeks a...

The Pipeline 09.15.10

FOR OUR COAST Construction of the new Acadiana Center for the Arts performance theater is complete. What better way to celebrate than throw a huge, star-studded benefit for Gulf Coast recovery. The...

The Pipeline 09.08.10

LIL'BAND O'GOLD You can't get more laid back or old school than Lil'Band O'Gold - the only band that needs two apostrophes in its name to properly convey the down home, colloquial hoodoo of its...

The Pipeline 09.01.10

GIVE PROJECT In a world populated with me Me ME and my My MY - and my-this, and my-that, and what can you do for me or what have you done for me lately? - it's nice to see people attempting to give,...

The Pipeline 08.25.10

Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 Written by Dege Legg NU-NU'S FIRE BENEFIT "Nu-Nu's is better than No-Nu's Benefit!" So goes the tagline. One club helps out another. One community helps out another....

The Pipeline 08.18.10

GROOVERS In the music world you have doomers, rockers, pickers, slow jammers, shoe gazers, country fryers and groovers. And many more. Groovers are a select breed. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 Written by...

The Pipeline 08.11.10

TREAD ON THIS Does the loss of your Constitutional rights piss you off? How about passivity agents in your tap water? How about DARPA, HAARP, scalar weapons, and a host of other injustices secretly...

The Pipeline 08.04.10

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 Written by Dege Legg MATRIARCH OF FOLK She's the Matriarch Folk Queen. Joan Baez was one of the major movers and shakers of the folk revival of the '60s that included Bob...

The Pipeline 07.28.10

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Written by Dege Legg ASTRONAUT GYPSY ROCK Take your protein pills and put your helmet on; Baton Rouge's Gypsy Space Caravan is coming town. If you like your jam with...

The Pipeline 07.21.10

July 21, 2010 Written by Dege Legg GRANT ST. 30th ANNIVERSARY The legendary Grant Street Dancehall celebrates it's 30th birthday on July 23 with Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys and the Pine Leaf...

The Pipeline 07.14.10

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Written by Dege Legg MURPHY BENEFIT On June 16 Nicole Murphy, 24, died in South Africa while attending the World Cup with her father and three of her siblings. She was walking...

The Pipeline 07.07.10

**Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Written by Dege Legg ** JUNK TIRES You got old tires? Need a place to dump them? Councilman Boudreaux is trying to clean that mess up in addition to taking away primo...

The Pipeline 06.30.10

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Written by Dege Legg GULF COAST TO COAST BENEFIT What a mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil everywhere, media blackouts, Goldman Sachs and Tony Hayward selling off stock before...

The Pipeline 06.23.10

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Written by Dege Legg ROADBURN After years of independent music growing increasingly genteel, mannered, and estranged from its punk rock roots - having more in common with car...

The Pipeline 06.16.10

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Written by Dege Legg ROCK CAMP Kids want to rock. Period. Parents might want them to learn classical music or polka, but the kids almost overwhelmingly gravitate toward the...

The Pipeline

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Written by Dege Legg BONERBORNE Anders Osborne + Bonerama = Anderama. Or Bonerborne. You decide. Freedom of choice. It's America, baby. Good music is good music. Grant Street...

Avec

AVEC The madman of the Cajun fiddle and his band Beausoleil return for another triumphant, yet suitably chilled, yet substantially massive, yet extremely tasteful and inventive freeze-dried set of...

The Pipeline

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Written by Lanie Cook DIRTY OLD ONE MAN BAND Country music. Gee-tars. Trucker hats. Beer. These things are elemental to the Texas way, and Austin native Scott H. Biram - the...

SIMPLICATED/COMPLIFIED

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Written by Lanie Cook SIMPLICATED/COMPLIFIED Times are fast these days. Technological communication puts people on constant standby, and long gone is the need for tangible,...

Cajun and Creole Folklore Preservation Party

**Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Written by Lanie Cook CAJUN AND CREOLE FOLKLORE PRESERVATION PARTY** What better a way to raise funds for preserving the rich cultural heritage of South Louisiana than by...

Richie Havens

Written by Dege Legg Wednesday, May 5, 2010 RICHIE HAVENS He's the unspoken king of Woodstock. Folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens opened the legendary 1969 festival with a marathon three hour set...

Crouchstock

Written by Dege Legg Wednesday, April 28, 2010 CROUCH STOCK Suicide ain't no way to live. Fast, slow, or mid-paced, hara-kiri, self-destruction, self-immolation, and the like are not cool. Each week...

Speak Fest

Written by Dege Legg Wednesday, April 14, 2010 SPEAK FEST SPEAK FEST returns. The Society for Peace, Environment, Action & Knowledge at UL is one of those great concentrations of people that...

Spring Music Series

Written by Dege Legg Wednesday, 10 March 2010 Tis springtime again almostand that can only mean a few things: gallant poets riding white horses and spouting noble poems of undying love, a profound...

GERONIMO

Written by Dege Lege Wednesday, 03 March 2010 Acadiana is no stranger to festivals. When spring hits there's practically one every weekend celebrating everything from crawfish to crayons. This weekend...


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