Issue Articles
The 50 Best Albums of 2021 in Louisiana Music
The COVID pandemic continued in 2021, making the presentation of live music difficult, and during a spike in infections, nearly impossible. Over the course of the year, fewer albums than […]
Best of the Beat: And the winners are…
With the pandemic still upon us, OffBeat’s Best of the Beat was a virtual event. In many ways, we all missed the party, but the video shown during the event […]
The 50 Best Albums Of 2020 In Louisiana Music
In 2020 the pandemic may have stopped live music, but recorded music continued with too many great albums to include. As usual, we’ve polled our writers and editorial staff and […]
CabLog: Diary of a (Musical) Cabdriver
Sometimes driving a cab provides the best material any (song) writer could ever have. Foreword by Scott Jordan In mid-’90s New Orleans, the bar Check Point Charlie wasn’t for the […]
Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert (1942 -2000)
Jamaican reggae artist Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals passed away on September 11, 2020 at age 77. He died at the University Hospital of the West […]
Ronnie Kole (1931–2020)
New Orleans pianist, Ronnie Kole who performed for six presidents and a pope, died at age 89 on Thursday, August 27. His death was announced on his website and the […]
Stanley Crouch (1945-2020)
Stanley Crouch, the provocative speaker, music and cultural critic, musician, and brilliant writer, died on September 16, 2020 following nearly a decade of serious health issues. Crouch was born in […]
REWIND: Jazz Fest Redux
Memories of Jazz Fest from 1993 to 2019 Every year, OffBeat does a recap, a “redux” of Jazz Fest in our June issue. We’ve compiled a few of OffBeat […]
Dr. John & the WDR Big Band, Big Band Voodoo (Orange Music)
Dr. John is an essential piece of New Orleans for his R&B and rock ’n’ roll sessions at Cosimo Matassa’s studio, for the marvelous invention of his Gris-Gris music and […]
Brad Walker Quartet, Live at Snug Harbor (Independent)
As pointed out in the liner notes, this recording, Live at Snug Harbor, was initially captured purely to be used as “reference.” “During the very first song, I realized something […]
