Issue Articles
The Top Ten Selling Albums During Jazz Fest at Louisiana Music Factory
1. Tab Benoit: Medicine (Telarc) 2. Galactic: The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans (Anti-) 3. Johnny Sansone: The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too (ShortStack) […]
OffBeat Friday on Fox: Country, PBS, Big Sam & MNIJM
Every Friday, OffBeat editor Alex Rawls runs down the weekend’s highlights on the Fox 8 Morning News. This week, he talked with Jennifer Hale about Bayou Country Superfest, Save PBS […]
French Quarter Fest 2011: A-Z Guide
Louisiana music comes to the Vieux Carre during the French Quarter Fest, April 7-10, this year adding music on Thursday. With so many musicians and 20 stages, it’s hard to […]
Simply the Best: The 2010 Best of the Beat Award Winners
This year was Trombone Shorty’s year. He swept this year’s Best of the Beat top awards, being voted by OffBeat readers Artist of the Year, and his Backatown was voted […]
Louisiana at SXSW
A decade ago, a handful of Louisiana bands were included in South by Southwest’s music showcases. This year, the annual music conference/festival/marketplace in Austin, Texas takes place from March 16-20 […]
OffBeat Looks at the Weekend
OffBeat editor Alex Rawls appeared on the Fox8 Morning Show with Jennifer Hale this morning to talk about Lil Wayne, the Best of the Beat, Yo La Tengo and Monotonix. […]
The Best Louisiana Albums of 2010
This year, people paid off. Fans have been waiting for a long time for a Trombone Shorty album that captured what he and Orleans Avenue had become, and he delivered. […]
Free Morella, Free Lil Wayne
Morella and the Wheels of If have released their debut album, Shipwrecked. You can download a free mp3 of a live version of “Wandering” from the album at the band’s […]
The Po-Boy Preservation Festival Returns to Oak Street, Fully Dressed
This November, the Po-Boy Preservation Festival returns to Oak Street for its fourth year. A long list of vendors including Boucherie, Coquette, Delachaise, Grand Isle, Jacques-Imo’s, Mahoney’s, Parkway, and Vaucresson […]
Weird Voodoo Tales: Quick Picks
Rusko Friday, October 29, 2:15 p.m., Le Plur presented by Billboard.com Ever since Jamaican dub-makers discovered the tape delay, the UK electro avant garde’s creative process has been largely a […]
