DEERHUNTER/PELICAN FOR GAS

Baton Rouge’s Gas Food and Lodging Festival
Deerhunter, Hella, Pelican, Sykes, Black Angels
Plus: Mary Timony, Rosebuds, Dirty Projectors, Dirty on Purpose, VietNam
and many more

Coinciding with SXSW, the 2007 Gas Food and Lodging Festival will be held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from March 12-24. The two-week festival provides traveling bands a means of making a extra cash on the way to SXSW; presumably money to spent on Gas Food and Lodging.

Baton Rouge venues Spanish Moon, Red Star Bar, North Gate Tavern, and Chelsea’s welcome a slew of indie bands during the festival, including Deerhunter, Hella, Pelican, Jesse Sykes, Mary Timony, The Black Angels, the Rosebuds, Dirty Projectors, Dirty on Purpose, Georgie James, Bishop Allen, Daughters, Young Widows, Silversun Pickups, Six Parts Seven, Say Hi to Your Mom, and more. Check out the complete lineup below.

Spanish Moon:
03.12 Silversun Pickups, The Rosebuds
03.13 Pelican, Daughters, Russian Circles, Young Widows
03.14 Deerhunter, 2CV
03.16 Astronautalis, Club of the Sons
03.17 Jason Isbell (of Drive-By Truckers)
03.19 Hella, Dirty Projectors
03.20 Six Parts Seven, The Apes, Antelope
03.21 Say Hi to Your Mom, Bishop Allen, +/-
03.23 The Black Angels, Vietnam

Red Star Bar:
03.12 Apollo Sunshine, Dirty on Purpose, Earl Grey
03.13 Mary Timony, Georgie James
03.15 The Honored Guests
03.16 We Landed on the Moon

Chelsea’s: 03.12 Jesse Sykes, The Moaners
03.13 Jim Bianco, Jenny Owen Youngs, Tobias Froberg
03.14 JJ Grey and Mofro, Hobex
03.15 Sons of William
03.16 Eric Lindell
03.17 The Loft
03.21 Michael Foster Project
03.22 Southern Culture on the Skids, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
03.23 T.J. Black and the Black Sound Parade
03.24 Rocket 88’s Old Time Rock’n’Roll

North Gate Tavern:
03.12 Constants, Thou 03.13 Carrigan, 60 Cycles of Sound, The Melters
03.14 Nothington, Vaeda, Save the Last Bullet, Starscream’s Revenge
03.15 Aces Over Kings, Stranger Than Angels
03.17 Red Collar
03.19 The Sundresses, Dimestore Troubadours
03.21 Lunara
03.22 Gracer, Epic, Lazarus Heart
03.24 Juan Prophet Organization, The Vermillion Lies, Wilderness Pangs