No band in Lafayette — Cajun, zydeco, country, rock, indie, or whatever — was hotter than Givers in 2010. Period. After a year of shopping around for a record label, it is official: the Lafayette indie pop band Givers has inked a record deal with Glassnote Records. Home of bands like Seconndhand Serenade and Phoenix, Givers join a growing roster of tasteful indie-centric pop musicians looking for life in the increasingly difficult music industry, where decreasing revenue from CD sales, paired with minimal commercial radio airplay, has pushed bands out of their hometowns and onto the road of club tours. Givers is a good example of a band that has capitalized on their triumphs, and attempted to avoid the early pitfalls of the industry, and above all worked hard. This record deal comes after of a year spent touring with bands like Ra Ra Riot and Dirty Projectors among others.
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There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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