Issue Articles
Thunderous: Walter Lure and the Waldos Set for Siberia Sighting
Johnny Thunders, the guitarist who rose to fame as a member of the New York Dolls and ascended to legend leading the Heartbreakers, claimed a unique corner in New Orleans […]
Yarrr! Pirates Come in Many Forms for Hal Willner
What is it about singing drunken pirate songs that holds such universal appeal for rock musicians? National Lampoon’s Goodbye Pop album did a hilarious job of spoofing this genre, thank […]
Anders Osborne, Three Free Amigos (Alligator Records)
Three Free Amigos is a beautiful place keeper in Anders Osborne’s career, a songwriter’s digest that follows two exhaustive, sprawling magnum opus albums, American Patchwork and Black Eye Galaxy. Those […]
Ned Sublette, Kiss You Down South (PostMambo)
We are all the heroes of our own imaginations. Likewise we can be our own tragic victims. The nature of art is to become this reality on the page (or […]
Maison Owners Purchase Hi-ho Lounge
The Hi-ho Lounge, one of the anchor clubs of the St. Claude Entertainment District, has been sold to the owners of the Frenchmen Street restaurant Maison. Brian Greiner and his […]
BackTalk: Dr. John, Keys-a-Janglin’
Complete BackTalk Interview with Dr. John and Sarah Morrow Mr. Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John, has played just about every conceivable type of popular music over the course of the last […]
Mac Moves On: New Year Brings New Band, Management for Dr. John
Dr. John completed a successful and tumultuous 2012 by signing with a new management team and parting ways with his Lower 911 band, the tight unit that has backed him […]
The Legends of New Orleans R&B: Best of the Beat 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Legends of New Orleans R&B, honored at OffBeat’s Best of the Beat awards show, will be recreated during the upcoming fourth season of the HBO series Treme. Ironically, this […]
Big Chief Howard Miller: Best of the Beat 2012 Heartbeat Award
In New Orleans, where so many traditions are handed across the generations through family ties, teaching is far from being an exclusively institutional enterprise. Some of the most important educators […]
BackTalk: OffBeat Publisher Jan Ramsey Looks Back on 25 Years
In 1979 New Orleans native and young divorced mother Jan Ramsey was driving home from work when a drunk driver jumped the median on I-10 and crashed head-on into her […]
