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Podcast: Four Minutes with the Panorama Brass Band
Colin Jones talks with Ben Schenck of the Panorama Jazz Band after the release of this year’s Come Out Swingin’.
YouTube du Jour: Making Zack Smith’s “Faces of Rock”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tkVzWqqHM[/youtube] Zack Smith, the photographer and drummer for Rotary Downs launched a project documenting the New Orleans indie rock scene on August 29 this year at Carrollton Station, and it […]
Bonnaroo Dates Announced
Superfly Productions has announced the dates for the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, to take place June 10 – 13, 2010. The four-day festival will once again be held […]
New Orleans in the News
The Los Angeles Times features Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog discussing the seemingly insane “remake” of The Bad Lieutenant, and how prop cocaine can be an effective stand-in for the real […]
YouTube du Jour: MyNameIsJohnMichael at Tipitina’s
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S_frdj57Pc[/youtube] This weekend is chock full of festivals: Fiesta Latina at Zephyr Field on Saturday, the New Orleans Indie Rock Fest III at One Eyed Jacks and Blue Nile Friday […]
Best of OffBeat Group Pool Photos – November 2009, Round 2
And we’re back with the second round of the best photos added to the OffBeat Group Pool on Flickr.
Last Chance
As we’ve documented, Rebirth Brass Band drummer Derrick Tabb has been nominated as one of the finalists for CNN’s Hero of the Year (to find out why, check out Lauren […]
YouTube du Jour: James Booker
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooy1T6YDUko[/youtube] Footage of the great James Booker playing “Classified”. The person who posted it to YouTube says it’s live at Montreaux, but one of the respondents thinks it’s from French […]
YouTube du Jour: Derrick Tabb CNN Heroes Rally
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RfUYjsPvUY[/youtube] Here’s a little footage from the rally for Derrick Tabb and his Roots of Music after-school music education program,
The Renovation of The Hookah
The Hookah Cafe, once a stalwart of Frenchmen Street until it was quickly forced to shutter its windows this spring, just reopened a couple weeks ago at a brand new […]
