Expanded listings at bestofneworleans.com PAGE 43 SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; New Orleans Moonshiners, 10 STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Dukes of Dixieland Band, 6 TIPITINA’S — Dappa Live feat. Y. Luck & Elliot Luv, 9 TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — Waylon Thibodeaux, 5 TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Mark Barrett, 4; Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 9 TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Mark Penton, 1; Cruz Missiles, 5; Late As Usual, 9 VAUGHAN’S — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30 YUKI IZAKAYA — Norbert Slama Trio, 8
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The Black Album PHOTO BY JAMES CARNEY
In case their increasingly heady music didn’t give it away, singer/ guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney gave May LP Brothers (Nonesuch), their sixth as the Black Keys, all the hallmarks of a classic: a Muscle Shoals address, a minimally maximal album cover that simply reads, in vintage Cooper Black font and badass Howlin’ Wolf fashion, “This is an album by the Black Keys. The name of this album is Brothers.” As for the tunes, they take all of two bars to live up to the branding. “Everlasting Light” kicks open the doors, spins the shades and speckles the band’s typically blackened blues with R&B disco-ball sparkle, with Auerbach trembling, “Let me be your everlasting light” in a tremendous shoo-wah falsetto as Carney stamps out a perpetuating eight-count engine. That’s basically the whole song, and it’s so fresh and funky — so Black Keys, yet so not — that the arrival of “Next Girl,” as ferocious a kiss-off blues piece as any the pair has written (“My next girl, she’ll be nothin’ like my ex girl”), feels at first like a letdown. But for every “Cross Road” signpost, there’s a skulking slow jam like “The Only One” (another ’70s falsetto slayer) or psych-tinged twinge like “Howlin’ For You,” an openly sheepish ode to pursuit couched in Wolf’s clothing. The Whigs open. Tickets $34.50. — Noah Bonaparte Pais
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Louviere, 5; Foot & Friends, 5 KRAZY KORNER — Death by Orgasm Rock ’n’ Roll Band, 8:30; Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraiser, LE BON TEMPS ROULE — Piano Bob, 7; Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 11 LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Dwight Breland, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9 LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY — Alabama Slim, 3; Dash Rip Rock, 4; Trashmen, 5 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 10 NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — Daniel Black, 7; Tom Hehehan, 8; Maxwell Eaton, 10 OLD OPERA HOUSE — Bonoffs, 1; Vibe, 8:30 OLD POINT BAR — Space Heaters, 9:30 ONE EYED JACKS — Sun Hotel CD release, Caddywhompus, Eastern Sea, 9 PRESERVATION HALL — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Lars Edegran, 8 REPUBLIC NEW ORLEANS — Hold Steady, Wintersleep, 8 ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Mixed Nuts, 9:30 SING SING CLUB — John Lisi, 9 SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Ellis Marsalis Trio, 8 & 10 SOUTHPORT HALL — Bottoms Up, 10 SPECKLED-T’S & AFTER DARK — Grunge Factory, 10
SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 10 ST. ROCH TAVERN — The Way, 9 STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Dukes of Dixieland Band, 6 TIPITINA’S — Rebirth Brass Band, Revivalists, 10 TOMMY’S WINE BAR — Tommy’s Latin Jazz Band feat. Matthew Shilling, 9 TOOLOULA’S — PsydeFX, 9 TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 1; Waylon Thibodeaux, 5; T’Canaille, 9 TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Captain Leo, 1; Mark Barrett, 5; Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 9 TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Butch Fields Band, 1; Cruz Missiles, 5; Late As Usual, 9 WHISKEY DIX — Blues Frenzy, 9
Saturday 25 12 BAR — Rex Gregory Trio, 6; Jake Eckert Band, 9 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY — 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center Membership Drive & Fundraiser feat. Sarah Quintana, Helen Gillet, Dirty Bourbon River Show, 8 APPLE BARREL — Peter Orr, 7 BABYLON LOUNGE — Among the Missing, 10
BACCHANAL — Gypsy Swing Club, 8 BAD MONKEY — Unnaturals, Pests, 10 BANKS STREET BAR — Kevin O’Day & James Andrews Allstars, 10 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Armand St. Martin, 7 BAYOU PARK BAR — Kim Carson, 10 BLACKSTAR — ReRooted feat. Blue, Artistik Approach, 7 BLUE NILE — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 BMC — New Orleans Jazz Series, 3; Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, 6:30; Benny Turner & Real Blues, 9:30; One Mind Brass Band, 12:30 a.m. BOMBAY CLUB — Phillip Manuel Quartet, 9:30 BOOMTOWN CASINO — Cyril Neville & Nevolution, 9:30 CARROLLTON STATION — Jason Schell Band CD release, 9 CHICKIE WAH WAH — Malcolm Holcombe, 9 CIRCLE BAR — Jazzholes, 6; Lovey Dovies, Secrets, Ponykiller, 10 COLUMNS HOTEL — Andy Rogers & Guest, 8 D.B.A. — John Boutte, 8; Lost Bayou Ramblers, 11 DECKBAR & GRILLE — Miche & MixMavens, 8 DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — John Carey CD release, 10 DRAGON’S DEN — Social Victim, 10 HARRAH’S CASINO (HARRAH’S THEATRE) — Starship feat. Mickey Thomas, 7 & 10 HERMES BAR — Sasha Masakowski, 9:30 & 11 HI-HO LOUNGE — Vockah Redu, Skate Night, DJ Bees Knees, 10 HOUSE OF BLUES — Ponderosa Stomp feat. Duane Eddy, Sugar Pie Desanto and others, 7 HOWLIN’ WOLF — Pepper, Shwayze, 9 HOWLIN’ WOLF (THE DEN) — TheHipChick Benefit for Stephanie Pawlak feat. DJ Slick, 6; New Grass Country Club, 9 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Glen David Andrews, 8; Kinfolk Jazz Band, midnight KERRY IRISH PUB — Speed the Mule feat. Paul Tobin, 5 KOENJI HOUSE — Kowloon Walled City, Batillus, Thou, 7 KRAZY KORNER — Death by Orgasm Rock ’n’ Roll Band; Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraiser, Sundays LAFITTE’S BLACKSMITH SHOP — Mike Hood, 9 LE BON TEMPS ROULE — 007, 11 LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Jason Bishop, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9 LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY — Louisiana Hellbenders, 3; John Carey & Piano Bob, 4; Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents feat. LaLa Brooks, 5 THE MAISON — Dance in da Pants!!!, Rabbit, Autotomii, 10 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Good Enough For Good Times feat. Gravy, 10 NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — Lilli Lewis, 8; Badura, 9; Christina Perez Trio, 10; Luke Wade, 11 OLD OPERA HOUSE — Bonoffs, 1; Vibe, 8:30 OLD POINT BAR — Mike Burkhart &
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12 BAR — Dames D’Lish, 9 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY — Friday Music Camp feat. Davis Rogan & friends, 5; Bodhi3 CD release, 9 61 BLUES HIGHWAY — Jack Yoder & Li’l G Delta Blues, 8 ALLWAYS LOUNGE — Ratty Scurvics & His Imaginary Quintet, 11 BABYLON LOUNGE — Retro Vertigo, 10 BANKS STREET BAR — N’awlins Johnnys, 10 BIG AL’S SALOON — Desire Street Band, 8 BLUE NILE — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 BMC — Sasha Masakowski, 7; Fredy Omar Con Su Banda, 10:30; Young Fellas Brass Band, 1:30 a.m. BOMBAY CLUB — Banu Gibson, 9:30 BOOMTOWN CASINO — 38 Special, 9:30 CARROLLTON STATION — 61 South, 9 CHICKIE WAH WAH — Wilson & Moore, 5:30; Paul Sanchez, 8 CIRCLE BAR — Jim O. & Sporadic Fanatics, 6; M.O.T.O., 11 Blade, Fast Boyfriends, Split Lips, 10 CLEVER WINE BAR — Courtyard Kings, 8 CLUB 7140 — Michael Ward, 8 COLUMNS HOTEL — Alex Bachari, 5 D.B.A. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Original 007, 10 DEW DROP SOCIAL AND BENEVOLENT HALL — Deacon John Moore, 6:30 DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Eric Traub Trio, 10 DRAGON’S DEN — Bile, 10 DUTCH ALLEY — Jayna Morgan, 5; Lantana Combo, 6:45 HERMES BAR — Shannon Powell, 9:30 & 11 HI-HO LOUNGE — Groovecats CD release, 10 HOUSE OF BLUES — Ponderosa Stomp feat. Trashmen, Thee Midniters and others, 7 HOWLIN’ WOLF — Citizen Cope, 9 HOWLIN’ WOLF (THE DEN) — Cole Jernigan Project, 10 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8; Burlesque Ballroom feat. Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, midnight KERRY IRISH PUB — Damien
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