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. It's a village. People help out and what goes around comes around. It's nice like that. On Aug. 29, the Blue Moon hosts a benefit and fundraiser for Nu-Nu's, which suffered extensive fire damage last month in a huge blaze that should have ended its run. But you can't keep a good club down. To help facilitate Nu-Nu's comeback, all of the proceeds from the show will go toward rebuilding the structure. Joe Hall & the Louisiana Cane Cutters, Celjun with Tony Daveron, Ryan Brunet & Les Malfecteurs, Cedric Watson & Bijoux Creole, Bon Soir Catin and Horace Trahan & the New Ossun Express provide the live music for what will be a kick ass show.
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. It's a village. People help out and what goes around comes around. It's nice like that. On Aug. 29, the Blue Moon hosts a benefit and fundraiser for Nu-Nu's, which suffered extensive fire damage last month in a huge blaze that should have ended its run. But you can't keep a good club down. To help facilitate Nu-Nu's comeback, all of the proceeds from the show will go toward rebuilding the structure. Joe Hall & the Louisiana Cane Cutters, Celjun with Tony Daveron, Ryan Brunet & Les Malfecteurs, Cedric Watson & Bijoux Creole, Bon Soir Catin and Horace Trahan & the New Ossun Express provide the live music for what will be a kick ass show.
THE NIGHT TRIPPER
The Nighttripper Gris-Gris, Dr. John, aka Mac Rebennack, was an aspiring guitar player before he broke his ring finger in a fight defending his band mate. Later he took up the piano and the rest is gloriously weird history. Although best known for "Right Place Wrong Time," Dr. John's greatest achievement is his bayou-broiling, voodoo-inspired 1968, seminal psychedelic-R&B-roots feast "Gris Gris." If you don't own it, go buy a copy NOW. Truly one of the greatest records ever made. This is the stuff that cult followings are made of. Described as "the most exploratory and psychedelic outing of Dr. John's career," it's influenced everyone from Modest Mouse to Nick Cave. Imagine Screaming Jay Hawkins genetically spliced with Swordfishtrombones-era Tom Waits and you're getting close. Hey, but that's not all he's known for. With more than 30 records released in the past 40 years, he's up there with Dylan in the American Icon Deptartment. Dr. John plays The Manship Theater in Baton Rouge on Aug. 25.
BOBBY B
Bobby Broussard has been a blues guitar gun slinger and fixture on the Lafayette music scene for decades. After a seven-year respite, Broussard reunites his namesake band for a comeback gig of sorts at Somewhere's Else Lounge. "I've still been playing with a lot of zydeco bands, but it's the first time I've played with my own band in years," says Broussard. "It's kind of like a coming back party or going away party." In addition, he has been working on a CD of his own tunes. If you like 60s era classic blues, go see the Bobby Broussard Band on Aug. 29 at Somewhere's Else Lounge.
B-DAY PARTY SHOWS
It's a big birthday week for shows at the Blue Moon. On Aug. 26, the roots, reggae, rock juggernaut of Lafayette's True Man Posse take the stage to celebrate frontman Walter Thibeaux's birthday. Two nights later, on Aug. 28, Corey Ledet celebrates his birthday with a gig at the Blue Moon with the indie, Cajun roots of Feufollet.
ROLLER DERBY
It's roller derby. In what they are terming the "School Yard Shuffle," the Acadiana Good Times Rollers will face off against the Cajun Rollergirls at Top Shelf Sports, located at 1616 Youngsville Highway on Aug. 28. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10. Bust it.
WILDFLOWERS
They don't always get the big breaks and favors that other bands get, but The Wildflowers don't need them anyway. If you like fiddle, roots and twang with some bang, go see The Wildflowers at Blue Dog on Aug. 29.
ETC
The Lackadaises from Shreveport play Artmosphere on Aug. 26On Aug. 27, Chubby Carrier plays ArtmosphereThe Howdies play The Blue Moon on Aug. 27On Aug. 25, Leopard Sound Barrier, Berserka, and The Chatty Cathie's play Sadie'sOn Aug. 26, the following night, The Blessed, Machine Made Slave, Jupiter Death Brigade, & Creative Waste play Sadie'sThere's a new didgeridoo jam underneath Cajundome Boulevard in the pedestrian tunnel near Bourgeois Hall going down Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at 8 p.m. Honk on that thing.
**POSTHASTE WITH REX MOROUX
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T-REX
According to the quotes on Rex Moroux's MySpace page, he has at times been "a drunk, a lover, occasional liar, sweetheart, asshole, unemployed troublemaker, raconteur, bon vivant, wannabe Teddy boy, wannabe Bob Dylan, and on occasion a pretty goddamned good boyfriend." Add to that list exceptional songwriter and midnight crooner. After getting his start as an aspiring playwright, Moroux took to the acoustic guitar and began writing songs full of crying country, whiskey-soaked evenings, and lonesome roads, all of it packed with lilting poetic delivery. Over the past decade, he's released three killer albums along the same lines: Royal St. Inn, These Bricks Are Bleeding and 105 Lullaby. And on Aug. 28, you can witness what Rex Moroux does at Artmosphere.
Rex sits down for 13-round heavyweight session of Posthaste Q&A.
Life story of Rex Moroux in five words, more or less. Be dramatic! Burnt at both ends.
You did some time as an aspiring playwright, penning a play entitled, No Nazis in the Lyceum. What the hell was that thing about? An overwrought, pretentious attempt at Orwell....truly not worth the paper it was written on....an interesting experience nonetheless.
You're a writer. What's the difference between bad poetry and good poetry? Much like Potter Stewart's observation about pornography, "you know it when you see it."
Upon visiting your MySpace page, an obnoxious song by a band called Blackwater James begins playing without prompt. Make it to go away. It's apparently that band's virus/marketing tool. Must be a severely deluded bunch. Can't get that goat howl off the site. I haven't been there in a while
Is God knowable or are we just dogs staring at a Rubik's Cube, unable to understand the complexity of things? I feel like a dog, often look like one, and this God fella has never returned my call. I'm gonna go with the dogs.
Would you rather a) speak in tongues at a charismatic church, b) party with Gordon Lightfoot circa '77, c) kill a bear with your bare hands in self defense or d) get stoned with Nostradamus and contemplate metaphysical nature of all beings? Are you kidding me?! Gordo, here I come.
You've blown the lid off DTA, rocked the Blue Moon, leveled Philly, tripped the light fantastic in Frisco, and rioted with the natives at the Rockwood in NYC. What's next for Rex? Hopefully some sleep...and cheeseburgers. Sleep and cheeseburgers are the sum total of my ambitions these days.
I found this wig lying around The Independent Weekly office. When I put it on, I look like your mentally disturbed half-brother. Thoughts? Maybe we should start a duo? Dege, I've been hinting at that for years. You're like my wannabe junior high girlfriend, bro.
Best gig ever? Amsterdam opera house, 2008, the closest I've ever come to that transcendent bliss business.
Worst gig, ever? Tough one, I played an acoustic show at a beach bar in Hermosa Beach once. I was directly behind a huge wooden column, inside playing for people outside, and they all drunkenly and viciously wanted to hear Pearl Jam, Creed, or Stain'd. That really sucked.
If out of economic necessity you were forced to create and market your own brand of men's cologne, what would it be called? Nervous Beard.
Your latest album is entitled, These Bricks are Bleeding? What series of extreme circumstances causes bricks to actually bleed? When I'm forced to take my shirt off.