Clark Vreeland: Man of Mystery

Before there were Radiators, there were Rhapsodizers.  Before New Orleans had art punk, it had Room Service. Skulking in the background of the city’s most innovative musical entities of the […]

Jazz Fest 2010 Performers: A-Z

Not even the diehards know everybody. You can have a deep passion for New Orleans and Louisiana music, and there’s still somebody performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage […]

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Jazz Fest First Weekend Top Picks

Keep these picks close at hand by downloading our new iPhone app.   Friday, April 23 Baaba Maal 4/23, CON, 1:55p: This Senegalese singing star with wide-ranging musical interests draws […]

Mardi Gras 2011

[shareit] [clear] Mix Power 102.9’s DJ Chicken shared this guest mix with us: Mardi Gras Under the Bridge (Orleans and Claiborne Mix). Stream below:       Mardi Gras Concert […]

Jazz Fest 2009 Schedule: Turning 40

For the first time, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has announced it schedule not just before Mardi Gras, but before Christmas. At a December 16 press conference, festival […]

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The Top 50 Louisiana CDs of 2006

Selected from nearly 300 Louisiana releases, Hurricane Katrina hasn’t slowed us down, our 2006 Critics’ Choice of the year’s finest musical offerings was a joint effort of OffBeat’s editors and […]

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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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Fifteen Years of OffBeat: 1988-2002

A trip through OffBeat’s back pages, or as Louis Armstrong once sang: “All that meat and no potatoes!” For those readers with scant knowledge of New Orleans music and Louisiana […]

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Jazz Fest 2002 Redux

Jazz Fest 2002 Redux

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Juke (Box) Joints

  One night I saw two lawyers in lust trying to read the road map to their forbidden desires. The red wine out of the bar’s single-serving screwtop bottles was […]

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