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Feb 23, 2018

The Bar That’s Been at the Center of New Orleans Rock Music for the Last Two Decades

One Eyed Jacks, the French Quarter’s sole independent rock club, has become a bona fide local institution.

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Jan 16, 2018

The Best Places to See Live Music in New Orleans

I'm not sure, but I'm almost positive, that all music comes from New Orleans."

Rock 'n' Bowl, New Orleans

Oct 5, 2017

Rock 'n' Bowl

Founded in 1989, Rock 'n' Bowl moved a few blocks down Carrollton Ave from its original location after Katrina flooded it.

Bullet's Sports Bar, New Orleans

Oct 5, 2017

Bullet's Sports Bar

Bullet's, a laid-back sports bar in the heart of the Treme neighborhood, is a historic incubator for New Orleans’ many homegrown party sounds like funk, brass-band music, and R&B.

Saenger Theater, New Orleans

Oct 5, 2017

Sanger Theater

The Saenger began its life in 1927 as a grand movie palace decorated in the mode of a 15th-century Florentine garden, a gilded Rococo pleasure dome of opulent splendor.

Preservation Hall, New Orleans

Oct 5, 2017

Preservation Hall

The weathered wooden walls of Preservation Hall's narrow showroom still look the same as they did more than 50 years ago, when a group of bohemian fans started hosting pass-the-hat traditional jazz concerts there featuring artists who were at least as old as the music itself.

Tipitina's, New Orleans

Oct 5, 2017

Tipitina's

In the first month of 1977, a group of young New Orleans music fans -- history knows them as the Fabulous Fourteen -- pooled their money to open an uptown nightclub that could provide a regular gig for the aging rhythm and blues pianist Professor Longhair.

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Oct 5, 2017

Siberia

This windowless joint on busy, industrial St. Claude Ave started out as an appropriately dark home base for New Orleans’ storied punk and metal scene.

Oct 5, 2017

One Eyed Jacks

One Eyed Jacks’ 300-capacity showroom is edged with sparkly, scarlet banquettes and mid-twentieth century pinup nudes painted on black velvet -- a swanky atmosphere representative of its history as an old French Quarter movie house and speakeasy.

Nov 14, 2016

The Best NOLA Music You've Probably Never Heard

From Louis Armstrong to Fats Domino to Lil Wayne, New Orleans has gifted the world’s ears with some of the most popular and influential music ever recorded.