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Burning Bright: The 50 best albums of 2015
We’ve polled our writers and editorial staff and have gathered 50 of our most recommended albums of the year. We didn’t include reissues and only included releases reviewed in 2015. […]
Stooges Brass Band Release New Record, Play Show With Ricky B.
After 10 years, the Stooges Brass Band have released their second recording. However, you’re going to need a turntable to hear it: the first professional recording of the seminal band’s […]
New Album Releases
CURRENT AND UPCOMING LOUISIANA CD RELEASES September 5, 2024 The Deslondes: Roll it Out (New West Records) Beth Patterson: The Cigar Box EP (Stone Groove Records) Adonis Rose & […]
Basher: May Day (Independent)
Multiple reedman and composer Byron Asher could be considered predictably unpredictable as he seems determined to stir things up. For instance, on May Day, on which the band is called Basher, he employs a pared down group with just his tenor, the alto sax of Aurora Nealand, Daniel Meinecke working on synthesizer and two drummers, Brad Webb and Zach Phea. On his previously OffBeat reviewed album Lord, When You Send the Rain, he leads an 11-piece ensemble dubbed Byron Asher’s Skrontch Music. So, it goes.
OffBeat Weekly Picks ( May 30 – June 5)
It’s another exciting week in New Orleans with no shortage of live music and cultural events to keep you entertained! Check out our OffBeat Weekly Picks ( May 30 – […]
David Russell Batiste, Sr.: Best Of The Beat Lifetime Achievement In Music
David Russell Batiste Sr., this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Music honoree, has a strong legacy of family, music, and education. As his son Jamal put it, “My father has a continuing fire to share his music and touch people.
Sonic Boom For The Soul: For People Museum the future is now
People Museum is the unique innovative sound of Brian Eno producing dream pop in New Orleans, while a second line struts by, and Twin Peaks plays on the TV. This most unique of bands is doing something not heard before here or elsewhere while remaining purely organic and true to four distinct Louisiana backgrounds. You will never forget People Museum once you witness them live.
2022 Jazz Fest Redux
The headline Jazz Fest Redux first appeared in OffBeat’s June 2000 issue. Although a Jazz Fest recap was published in every June issue since the magazine started in 1988, headlines […]
Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist and PBS Puppeteer: Chloé Marie pulls the right strings
One has to believe the “existential dread of staring into the night-sky for too long” has an impact on all of one’s creative pursuits: enter Chloé Marie, a singer-songwriter-guitarist who […]
