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Is Boudreaux Chanel Next?
It’s time to break out your nutria furs: it’s getting down right cold in New Orleans. Maybe slip into your nutria ball gown if you’re feeling fancy or don your […]
YouTube du Jour: Red Rockers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmevO2V2JxA[/youtube] Revisit New Orleans’ new wave past with a young John Thomas Griffiths on “China.”
YouTube du Jour: Deacon John
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aW1Etthv04[/youtube]Our Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music honoree tells the story of New Orleans’ music in this feature-length documentary, Going Back to New Orleans. The documentary also includes […]
Slideshow: Bonus Photos from The Warehouse Music Club
The current, January 2010, issue of OffBeat features a story on The Warehouse, one of the top music clubs in New Orleans during the 1970s. Its stage was graced by […]
Willie Mitchell Legendary Producer at Hi Records & Royal Studio, Memphis Passes Away
Willie Mitchell, a towering figure in soul and R&B music passed away this morning at the age of 81. USA Today reports that Mitchell passed at 7:25am Tuesday, January 5, […]
YouTube du Jour: Hurray for the Riff Raff
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMGe9JkRqU[/youtube]The Bywater band plays in the kitchen and sounds great doing so.
New Orleans in the News
A New Orleans architect is donating $150,000 to rebuild Carver High School and the surrounding area in the Ninth Ward. CNN has the story. Reggie Bush lost his bid to […]
YouTube du Jour: “Junker Blues”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK1PDqc9slw[/youtube]Tuts Washington and Professor Longhair demonstrate how the former’s “Junker Blues” became “Tipitina.” Allen Toussaint helps in a killer suit.
Concert Review: Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne has had a rough 2009. He has a weapons charge to which he has plea bargained down to one year of jail time, and despite the near-universal acclaim […]
YouTube du Jour: Panorama Jazz Band
Panorama Jazz Band plays OffBeat’s Best of the Beat[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTpIc5dPN4o[/youtube] Friday, January 22 at the House of Blues. Here they are live from 2008 playing King Oliver’s “New Orleans Shout.”
