Issue Articles — Plugged In
Unplugged: A Brief History and Goodbye
This marks the last installment of my column, and August will be the first month since June of 1993 that I won’t be working at OffBeat in some capacity — […]
Local Roots Music On-Line; New Music Scoring Software
The World Wide Web just got a big dose of funk, blues, greazy Fishhead rock, and New Orleans by-way-of Sweden funky blues/rock thanks to new sites by local veteran musicians […]
Best and Worst of Jazz Fest 1998, The Fans’ Perspective
Once again this year, the Internet and, especially, the World Wide Web proved an invaluable tool for Jazz Fest visitors as well as an open forum for music fans to […]
Fest Feedback, Take Two
What a topic this Jazz Fest booking question is. After posting the question, “What do you think about this year’s Jazz Fest line-up” to our Web site, our mailbox has […]
Feedback on the Fest
Ah, Jazz Fest. With the annual announcement of performers at the Fair Grounds comes the usual outpouring of praise and adulation — as well as the surfeit of gripes and […]
Resources for Songwriters and Indie Bands; NOPD On-Line Chat Report
With the South by Southwest Music Conference happening in Austin this month and the LMNOP Conference slated for its second year in New Orleans in April, March seemed an appropriate […]
Mardi Gras Tradition in a New Medium
In the long history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, many developments have come along to improve the celebration while preserving the wonderful traditions that make it such a unique […]
Second Annual Best of the Web
While the amount of growth in Web presence among local bands, businesses and organizations seemed to taper a bit in 1997, the overall quality of sites improved dramatically. Apparently, as […]
It’s a Mean Ol’ World (Wide Web)
To keep all the blues lovers occupied after they’ve finished our chock full o’ blues November issue, here are some of the top blues Web sites and resources on the […]
