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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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