Here is my first piece for GoNola.com, a site that calls itself “The Official ‘What’s Going On In New Orleans’ blog.”  I’ll be periodically writing about some of my favorite places to see live music, and I had to start with the all-time great Circle Bar, ground zero for the independent rock side of New Orleans Music (and contender for smallest bar in the universe). A snippet:

You will still get horns, but they are more likely to be blown by members of the (mostly) female ska group The Local Skank than by living legend Terrance Blanchard.  And when the guitars ring out, there is a better chance that you are being treated to the noisy swamp-punk of Sun Hotel or the prog experimentation of Smiley With A Knife than the spicy, blues riffs of Walter “Wolfman” Washington or the ragged thunder of Anders Osborne.

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