MUSiC LISTINGS PrEViEW
The
GREEN ROOM Music Club
Jayroc
FRI
13
SAT
JAN
Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Mem Shannon, 8
FRI
JAN JAN
FRI
27 Killahouse
Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola feat. Crescent City Joymakers, 7:30 Preservation Hall — Paulin Brothers Brass Band, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Ray’s — Bobby Love Band, 6 Rivershack Tavern — Amanda Walker, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Chris Ardoin, 8:30 Saturn Bar — Alex McMurray, 10
Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Don Vappie Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Brett Richardson, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott & James Singleton, 4:30; Luke Winslow-King, 7:30 Vaughan’s — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30 Windsor Court Hotel (Polo Club Lounge) — Larry Sieberth, 6
Friday 13 12 Bar — Head Grenade Sound System, 10 AllWays Lounge — Maedgen/ Gillet, 10 Banks Street Bar — Hannah KB Band, Natalie Mae, Red Mouth, 9 Bayou Bar at the Pontchartrain Hotel — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Soul Project (upstairs), 10; Brass-AHolics, 11 BMC — El DeOrazio & Friends, 3; Blues Frenzy, 6; Dana Abbot
JAN
16
28 Battle of the Bands
JAN
W E E K LY S C H E D U L E
MON todd lemoine
Cass McCombs
Don’t mistake Cass McCombs’ increasingly dour musical turns for a man chasing away demons. “I like the idea of living with your demons — drinking with your demons, having a party with your demons,” the 34-year-old Californian told me in October during an interview for a story about his twin 2011 releases, Wit’s End and Humor Risk (Domino). It was one of the few forthright moments during an often uncomfortably awkward half-hour phone conversation. Low-spoken and aloof, McCombs doesn’t do much press, mostly letting his art speak for itself (a perfectly reasonable proposition). When he does talk to writers, he prefers it be through the mail and/or with women (a more questionable request, particularly when laid out by a hired publicist). Such is the tricky terrain navigated by McCombs’ six studio albums: soulfully sung stories, both objectively oblique and painfully personal, that hide slippery syntax (“California makes me sick/ Like trying with a rattlesnake your teeth to pick”) and simply wry lines (“Where’d you learn to smoke?/ ‘Cause you’re doing it all wrong”) inside outre folktales of everyday America. Just don’t ask him to expound upon them. Frank Fairfield opens. Tickets $10. — Noah Bonaparte Pais
TUE
service industry free red beans night
WED
THU
open mic
ladies night
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FRIDAY • 1/13• 9 pm Band, 9; Lagniappe Brass Band, 12:30 a.m.
Bombay Club — Matt Lemler Quartet, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Raphael Bas, Norbert Slama & Jack Fine, 8 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Robin Barnes, 5; Lena Prima, 9 Checkpoint Charlie — Sweet Jones, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Pfister Sisters, 5:30; Acadias CD release, 8:30 Chophouse New Orleans — Amanda Walker, 6:30 Clever Wine Bar — Scott Sanders Quartet feat. Olivier Bou, 8 Columns Hotel — Alex
Bachari Trio, 5
Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Dash Rip Rock, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Eric Traub Trio, 10 Emeril’s Delmonico — Bob Andrews, 7 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Galvez Restaurant — Campbell Perkins, 6:30 Green Room — Jayroc, Trevelyan, DJ Scrim, 10 Hermes Bar — Shannon Powell Trio, 9:30 & 11 House of Blues — Styx, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — David Allan Coe, Kyle Turley Band, 9 page 42
band Camp
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Siberia — Jean-Eric, Sweet Tooth, Weekends, High In One Eye, 10
JaN
SAT
10 p.m. Monday One Eyed Jacks, 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net
PARISH
Old Point Bar — Blues Frenzy, 6:30; Enablers, 9
Battle of the Bands
21
The Maison — Those Peaches, 5; Onion Loaf, 10
Oak — Cristina Perez Trio, 9
+ The Unnaturals
SAT
Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 9
Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Buddy Mann, 9; Aotearoa, 10
Bruiser’s House of Surf
20
Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Roman Skakun, 5; James Andrews, 8
Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Big Al, 6; Andre Bouvier, 9:30
Battle of the Bands
14
The Inn on Bourbon — Joe Ashlar, 6
Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio, 10
+ Trevelyan + DJ Scrim
JAN
Nelson, Lukas Nelson, Promise of the Real, 8
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