Quint Davis: Jazz Fest is the Greatest Cultural Party in the World

The detailed lineup of all performers at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was announced during a special presentation on March 25, 2014. Before the “cubes,” as they […]

YouTube du Jour: The Wailers

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWOurk_hfBI&feature=related[/youtube] Tonight, the Wailers—led by long-time member Aston “Family Man” Barrett—perform the classic album Uprising at Tipitina’s, along with other favorites. Here’s a video for the hit from the 1980 […]

Pizza, Parades and Texting MCs: a SXSW Diary

[OffBeat contributor Aaron LaFont was also at SXSW: here’s the first two days of his diary] Day 1: A sense of utter disbelief soon followed by a somber ache came […]

2007 Jazz Fest from A-Z

Years ago, a radio announcer asked, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” then answered, “The Shadow knows.” Big deal. Evil’s easy. Does the Shadow know who’s […]

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French Quarter Fest A-Z

The French Quarter Festival is free, with 15 stages dotted throughout the Quarter. That’s a lot of stages and a lot of musicians from here and around the world. As […]

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Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z

Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey.   If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]

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The 2002 OffBeat Want List

THE WISH / WANT LIST 2002 The premise of the Wish List was about as simple as it gets: OffBeat’s editors and contributors were asked to provide five CDs released […]

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Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z

When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]

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DJ Jubilee Bounces His Way to the Top; Sporty T Hits the Jackpot

To his students at Cohen Sr. High School, Jerome Temple is a substitute teacher and football and basketball coach. But to local rap fans he’s DJ Jubilee, and his song […]