Issue Articles
Jazz Fest 2013 Highlights:
Living in a 3-D Museum
People kept asking me this year if Jazz Fest has out lived its usefulness to New Orleans culture. OffBeat is even getting letters from longtime fest-goers claiming that the festival is […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Lineup A to Z Performer Guide
The producers of Jazz Fest are fond of noting that fans who come for the big names always wind up discovering some unique, mind-blowing act they’d never see elsewhere. […]
Sean Yseult’s Mississippi Mermaids
When I was very little, my father used to sail us out to remote islands off of North Carolina to picnic and collect treasures. These treasures would range from fresh […]
French Quarter Fest 2013: A to Z Guide
Browse Every French Quarter Fest 2013 Performer Below A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | […]
NOLA Musicians Represent at SXSW
In its 27th year of cultural convergence, South by Southwest, arguably the country’s coolest sonic cotillion for musicians on the verge, will spotlight more Louisiana artists than ever before—and that’s […]
Scott Saltzman Captures Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown in His Twilight
I have been creating imagery examining performance for over 30 years. One of my early mentors once explained to me that it was my job to go beyond the obvious […]
New Sheriffs in Town: New Faces Show Up at Best of the Beat Awards
It probably didn’t come as a shock to anyone that Dr. John and Trombone Shorty would take home the most awards at the Best of the Beat this year, but […]
Pause for Papa: Papa Grows Funk Goes on Hiatus
The morning of January 9 brought news that Papa Grows Funk, coming off arguably its best album (2012’s Needle in the Groove), was going on hiatus. Frontman Jon Gros posted […]
Lost Issue: Longtime Subscriber Gives OffBeat Copy of Rare Early Issue
December anniversary issue we published all of our magazine covers for the past 25 years except for two, for which we said, “This issue exists, but we gave the last […]
Art Op: D. Lefty Parker, Portrait of Katey Red
I first met Katey Red as backstage security at the Spellcaster in 1999. Quintron had played some tracks for me, and we were really into the sound of New Orleans […]
