Bar, Live Music entertainment in USA
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Saloun
More casual and cheaper than better-known Georgetown venue Blues Alley, the Saloun attracts patrons who are younger, less polished, but more fun. The mostly local acts play jazz during the week and blues and Motown on weekends. There are 18 beers on tap and Cajun food to soak up all the liquor swirling inside your tummy.
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B
Smokin’ Hot Aces
Just outside the Grand Canal Shoppes, near the Venetian’s faux Rialto Bridge, this hideaway gin joint mixes poker-themed decor with pure rock ’n’ roll attitude and live bands. Play pool and drop quarters into the 11,000-song jukebox while your buds guzzle Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and knock-out, flaming-red, 48oz house cocktails.
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C
Rumpy’s
While the Federal-style inn upstairs is overpriced and forgettable, its red walled pub below deck comes with dim lighting and restaurant furniture from the ’70s. Some call it the cruise ship of Lenox, others are just reminded of ‘Twin Peaks.’ Either way, folk and jazz acts play most Friday and Saturday nights.
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D
Igor’s Checkpoint Charlie
Igor’s is so grungy it could start a band in early ’90s Seattle. It serves greasy food, good beer and a pleasant minimum of attitude (for some reason it feels like the sort of place where the bartenders should be jerks, but they’re actually pretty cool). Acts you’ve likely never heard of constantly tromp through the stage, and many of them are surprisingly very good.
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E
Basin Street Lounge
Wire-rimmed glasses and black turtlenecks may be the uniform at this sophisticated jazz venue, located in the back of the 219 restaurant. The downstairs lounge boasts quaint French Quarter Victorian decor, which is appropriate for the swinging piano, saxophone and bluesy jazz performances. The crowd is a bit older and if the music is good, the scene is pleasantly sedate.
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F
Dragon’s Den
When it comes to rock, ska, punk, drum-and-bass and hip-hop, the Den consistently hosts some of the best acts in New Orleans. It’s a decent, two-story venue that can get overcrowded, but when the attendance is just right it feels close enough to be intimate and big enough for you to bust some moves – which you’ll inevitably want to do, as the music here, including the rock, tends to be stuff you can get down to.
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One Eyed Jacks
If you are thinking ‘I could really use a night at a bar that feels like a 19th-century bordello managed by Johnny Rotten, ’ – well…you’re in luck. There’s a sense very dangerous women in corsets and men with Mohawks and an army of gypsies with bottles of absinthe could come charging out of the walls at any moment. And the acts, which consist of punk, post punk and the like, are consistently good, especially if you’re tired of brass and jazz.
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Saturn Bar
In the solar system of New Orleans’ bars, Saturn is planet punk and yet much more. Originally, it was simply an eclectic neighborhood bar where a working-class crew of regulars appreciated, in an un-ironic way, the outsider art and leopard- skin furniture. Then the hipsters started moving in. Today the Bywater community, punk scene and hipster enclaves live together in peace and camaraderie, united by neon lighting, flashy gambling machines and great live music.
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