Doors at 8PM / 21+/ $10 at the door!
Local favorites, HAPPY TALK BAND, play HOLY DIVER!
Blending elements of rock, country, folk, and Americana, New Orleans based songwriter and Happy Talk Band frontman, Luke Spurr Allen, provides a dark and wry atlas for the coming times: easy listening for the dystopian funhouse on the horizon.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH
TERRAIN: DC prog-punk comes to town with support from ACROSS PHOENIX: New Orleans local Experimental/Indie Rock Plus DONNER PARTY & BEN & DC
Doors at 8PM / 21+ / $10 at the door
Join THE UNNATURALS on SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH to celebrate their release of “SLEAZY LISTENING!” Joined by locals MY NEPTUNE and with a closing 1980’s KISS tribute performance featuring local rockers JESSE TRIPP & BRUISER BROUSSARD!
THE UNNATURALS: New Orleans instrumental surf rock, with a hint of swing & rockabilly, a punk & metal twist, and a whole lotta alcohol & attitude.
$10 at the door/21+ Doors at 8PM
Bobcat is a one-man band like no other. Drawing inspiration from the likes of garage rock, soul music, power-pop, rhythm and blues, rockabilly, punk rock, psychobilly, new wave and indie rock, this one-man band takes the notion one step further with ornate arrangements with minimal accompaniment.
007 has been rocking steady in New Orleans since 2000. The brainchild of G Love and
Special Sauce drummer Jeffrey "Houseman" Clemens, 007 is a forum for playing great
Jamaican music from the 60's by such artists as Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley and
Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals). 007's members also play in some of the area's
best bands. Bassist Joe Cabral fronts The Iguanas on Bajo Sexto and tenor saxophone.
Composer and guitarist Jonathan Freilich founded the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars
and plays guitar in many styles from jazz to folk. Alex McMurray plays guitar and sings
with Tin Men and the Happy Talk Band. Infectious dance grooves combined with three
part harmony singing and brilliant guitar improvisation are the hallmarks of this New
Orleans Party Institution. They have released three records, most recently “The Return
Of Ben Downlow” in 2024.
HOLY HELL at HOLY DIVER!! CORPUS OFFAL with MEPHITIC CORPSE and PENETRATION
Doors at 8PM/21+ @holydiverneworleans
Cerebral Rot is DEAD. From its maggot-infested corpse an entity even more repulsively loathsome has emerged, CORPUS OFFAL. Cerebral Rot’s lead guitarist / vocalist Ian Schwab, and guitarist Clyle Lindstrom have reconstituted in this ghastly operating theater, now with the new rhythm section (de)composed of Jesse Shreibman (Bell Witch, Autophagy) on drums and Jason Sachs (ex-Demoncy) on bass.
With the Cerebral Rot songwriting core intact CORPUS OFFAL reeks of similarly foul decrepitude and bludgeoning subterranean weight. Additionally a new more sickly goregrind presence hovers over the murk like a horrid miasma, engulfing the tunes with a cadaverous redolence.
The upcoming album, which has been recorded and mixed by Billy Anderson and mastered by Dan Lowndes, will be released in 2025.
This will be a ripper! Doors at 8PM / $15 at the door / 21+
While Zorn’s theatrical, (literally) scorching live shows are the stuff of legend, it would be a grave mistake to think the chaos they summon is all about the flaming swords, makeup, and leather corsets. Like Alice Cooper and David Bowie before them, Zorn knows you gotta have the songs to back up the image. Zorn’s metal-punk draws on death rock melody, intricate thrash riffing, and the bulldozing power of Discharge-inspired hardcore bands, but the songs are as infectious as they are intense. As with early Metallica, tracks like “Already Dead” and “Delco Devil Mosh” are built on memorable melodies that, in another time and place, might have formed the backbone of a killer glam rock single. I’m happy with my current reality, though, where Zorn is the kind of band who puts a devil standing atop a pile of flaming skulls on the cover of their album.
Doors at 8PM / $10 at the Door / 21+
Led by a former member of elusive Brooklyn aughts outfit The Tokeleys, Tape Slam unspools warped melodies over frequently loud guitars
Doors at 8PM/$10 at the door/21+
MODERATE ROCK: A collective of electric noise echoing through the farthest reaches of the city. Their music sounds like each instrument is trying as hard as it can to be louder than the other ones. It results in a trifecta of delectable chaos best enjoyed at high decibels. Brooklyn based; Preserving the art of the street show experience since 2018.
Guitar/Words: Nik Yilmaz | Bass: Ricky Diamond | Guitar: Aidan Oconnor | Drums: Chris Conlon
Editions Camille Presents: Poetry readings scored by Ceremonial Abyss. An offsite reading for NOLA Poetry Fest at HOLY DIVER. Featuring JUSTIN COX, ZOE DARSEE, ELISE HOUCEK, LAURA JARAMILLO, OLGA MIKOLAIVNA, CAIT O'KANE and RYAN SKRABALAN
DOORS AT 8PM /21+ @HOLYDIVERNEWORLEANS
Slight line up change and this one will STILL be a rocker‼️THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH
Get ready to Rock! With THE PAUSE / REDDIX YOUNG/ KRYPTONOPTOTRIX and VANTA VEGA! Only $10 🎟️ at the door for all 4 🤘21+
Come out and support your local rock scene! $10 at the door/21+
9PM SHOWTIME!! @holydiverneworleans
ANTAGONIZOR metal/punk from Gainesville, FL
TERATOMA metal/horror from Ocean Spring, MS
PYRATE trad neo metal from New Orleans
Doors at 8pm / Show at 9pm/ $10 cover at the door / 21+ w/ ID
CHRIS'S KITCHEN plays local Hardcore legends SHELL SHOCK material for a real treat you don't wanna miss! Joined by sunrise:sunset and SO AWFUL.
$10 AT THE DOOR//21+//@HOLYDIVERNEWORLEANS
DOORS AT 8PM
Only $10 at the door for PSYCH PUNK GOTH NIGHT at HOLY DIVER! Doors at 8PM/21+
Ill Funeral (metal/punk from one of the members of the Ayakashi Crew)
All In The Family (psych/goth/punk with Isidore from Dash Rip Rock and Dummy Dumpster)
KJ Valium (touring electronic artist from AZ, kind of like Industrial vaporwave)
LUNDI GRAS at HOLY DIVER!! 🎡 This is gonna be a good one!! 🎉 LORETTE VELVETTE with MICHAEL HURTT AND THE NEW ORLEANS NIGHT HOWLERS, ROCKIN' DON WAYNE and special guest DJ MATTY! Doors at 8PM / $15 / 21+ @holydiverneworleans
Until this past October, Lorette Velvette had not played in New Orleans since the late eighties when her mesmerizing Memphis rock 'n' roll band the Hellcats scorched the city with a still-talked about appearance with Tav Falco's Panther Burns. Since then, she's become an otherworldy chanteuse of Southern song, her deeply Delta-inflected style ignited by trailblazers like hill country blues guitarist Jessie Mae Hemphill and Moon Records' rockabilly maven Cordell Jackson. Like a 21st Century Bobbie Gentry, her music is rooted in the vaguely familiar, yet defies simple categorization, with myriads of blues, country and gospel tributaries running through its strikingly soulful rock 'n' roll spirit. Be sure to burn this upcoming Lundi Gras appearance into your brains and calendars!!
FOLLOWING THE MUSES PARADE /10PM/ $8 ADV 21+
Ari Blaisdell and Matt Jones are System Exclusive: a Pasadena based two piece band bearing an armful of mini synths, making heart-throbbing capital P pop cut with more than a hint of post-punk. Blaisdell’s vocals hearken back to openhearted 80’s hitmakers unafraid to quaver in the name of love, and they’re buoyed by Jones’ laser-gridded synth concoctions and heavy hand on the ones and twos.
Nite Nurse is a quartet of New Orleans rock n roll malcontents, including members of Il Gruppo Fr and Luxurious Faux Furs. They have problems, and they have songs about problems.
9pm doors / $12 / FUCK YEAH
Rock n Roll supergroup, THE GNARLTONES, featuring Dave Catching from Eagles of Death Metal & Queens of the Stone Age take the stage at HOLY DIVER for a special Carnival show!
Rik Slave's Darklounge Ministries opens the night. Doors at 8PM! You don't wanna miss this one!
Rik Slave present DARKLOUNGE MINISTRIES — live, sexy three piece pop lounge for your aural pleasure.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH! Come check out some PUNK from Minneapolis with VERMIT!! Along with locals BADZY and THE NANCIES! At HOLY DIVER. 9PM Showtime//$10 at the door/21+ @holydiverneworleans
The night kicks off with sounds from ( in no particular order ) NOLA/FL/TX based Thrash Metal Party Kingpin underdog hoodlums - OX45, ass kicking anthemic Alabama based punk rock rhyme slingers - ABUSEMENTS, along with Texas based party punk metal head wildmen CARNAGE GUISADA, along with Florida's White Phosphorus!!!
$10 at the door
Formed in late 2015, New York's False Gods is a unique blend of sludge/doom metal mixed with melodic noise and down-trodden hardcore.
PUNK from Houston with POPPERZ and PARTY MOUTH. Plus locals CODE BLACK & THE PAUSE
Join us after the parade for a rocking' good time with THE DRUPES, BRUCEY and HARD FUN @holydiverneworleans NO COVER! 21+
The Drupes have been described as "60's revivalist pop" /"one part sparkling jangles, one part sharp angles" / "this is what would happen if Pavement and Wire had unprotected sex."
$10 at the door! 9PM Showtime! 21+
Fentanyl is a new hardcore punk supergroup based out of San Fransisco that features members of Spiritual Cramp, Spy, and World Peace.
9PM SHOWTIME!!
Come see local favorites BLIND TEXAS MARLIN AND HIS DEMONS live at HOLY DIVER with their own special brand of "Tropical Country Tunes"
$10 ADV tix at: HOLYDIVERNOLA.COM 21+
9pm / $10
“I WANT TO PLAY THE PIANO THE WAY LINK WRAY PLAYS THE GUITAR"
Spinning tall tales of folklore, myth, urban legend and conspiracy theory through the kaleidoscope eye of soul, rock & roll and pre-war r&B, Harvey McLaughlin’s piano playing (and guitar slinging) antics have been ever present in the San Antonio music scene for the better part of the last twenty years. Be it in the dark instrumental horror surf outfit, the Sandworms (2008-2015); the jump blues psychobilly extravaganza of the Hares (2012-2016); or, more recently, joining the legendary Austin/SA cowpunk ensemble, the Hickoids – McLaughlin’s raucous style and swagger spreads wide.
His two full length albums, Tabloid News (2018) and Rascality (2020), are available via Saustex Records.
He’s currently playing in the aforementioned Hickoids, as well as keyboards for the Chicano soul revival, Eddie & the Valiants.
10PM SHOWTIME!
$10/21+ @holydiverneworleans
Suplecs are a NOLA-based stoner metal band, active since 1996. Their name being played on a classic pro wrestling maneuver this band has released four studio albums of heavy/stoner rock with themes based in life, drugs, women and wrestling. They have served as one of the longest lasting stoner rock bands in the NOLA scene.
Back in the day audiences and listeners were enthralled and informed by the caustic lyrical and guitar stylings of one Mr. Lou Thevenot, with his commentary on the unique and mindless aspects of life in the seven parish area as the bands Lump and Black Problem lurched and stomped behind him.
Since then there’s been very little until recent days, when his new outfit Norco Lapalco started to play out and provide another band to his singular approach. Now the group has a record, and it’s chock-full of loud, in-your-face music to accompany Thevenot’s ideas.
The songs are abrasive at times with noisy passages that have a great metallic distortion in the way that Sonic Youth made famous. But they also have an angular structure that can change dynamics and tone without losing momentum, like the best work of the Minutemen.
The songs feature both Thevenot and ball-of-energy vocalist Alba Houston, who can shred and coo with the best of them. Most of the tracks deal with the vagaries and truths of life in New Orleans and its surrounding towns. Some, like the takedown of the New Orleans Police on “One Shoe,” are sarcastic and self-righteous. Other tracks—like instant classics “You, Me, and Huey P.” and “Power Blvd.”—are laugh-out-loud funny amid the spiky, tight guitar and drums.
With the music and message exhibited here, Norco Lapalco is not only a great addition to the local music scene, but a fantastic perspective for our civic dialogue. (Kunian, David. Offbeat Magazine. 12 Dec. 2012. https://www.offbeat.com/music/norco-lapalco-independent/ Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.)
$10 at the door/21+ Doors at 8PM @holydiverneworleans
DECEMBER 6TH at HOLY DIVER!
Doors at 8PM/21+ $10 at the door!
Stepping Sideways is a conceptual rock/metal band from New Orleans, LA.
They blend the raw energy of rock and metal with thought-provoking concepts to create a unique and immersive musical experience. From heavy riffs to soaring vocals, their music will transport you to a world of adventure and danger. 🤘
$10 🎟️ at the door/21+ @holydiverneworleans
Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer John Jarvis has constructed a repository for extreme sounds and emotions in Nest. On one end of the spectrum, his grating riffs played with icy industrial precision and hardcore grit will leave you bloody, bruised, and breathless. On the other, his shoegaze hum bellows in a strangely soothing trance, bordering on blissful in the face of raw destruction.
In 2024, this vision takes shape like never before on Nest’s fourth full-length LP and Housecore Records debut, Endeavors.
“There are gorgeous nests, and then there are hideous and gross things like rats’ nests,” he notes. “I wanted to make music with beauty in it, but also some ugliness and darkness. A lot can happen in between.”
Gored Embrace is a death metal band from Chicago formed in early 2020. With numerous influences across old school and brutal death metal (Suffocation, Pyrexia, Defeated Sanity, Skinless, Internal Bleeding, etc.), their music prioritizes raw aggression, groovy rhythms, and catchy riffs/hooks. Common lyrical themes include horror, gore, grim aspects of reality, and state of mind.
WET SPECIMENS are hardcore punk from albany, NY
"Though Wet Specimens is definitely a hardcore band, I also hear elements of post-punk and the ultra lo-fi recording lends the material a creeped-out vibe. "Our sound is the product of our different influences. Dan, Colin, and Dylan all grew up in the Albany area and listen to a lot of Japanese hardcore, D-beat, and UK82 bands. I came from California and have more of a background in American hardcore, death rock, and new wave music. We try to pull from our favorite parts of what we listen to and then just put it through blown out distortion and reverb. Nobody’s reinventing the wheel in 2018, we’re just trying to see how far we can make the wheel roll with a tire with no tread and a nail in it." Ramirez, C. ( 2018, September 20). New Artist Focus: Wet Specimens. No Echo. https://www.noecho.net/features/new-artist-focus-wet-specimens
