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Mardi Gras should mean more
Did you have a good Mardi Gras? I did. The bad weather held off. My family and friends had a blast at our house, midway between St. Charles and the […]
Glen David Andrews Planning New Album
Glen David Andrews has only been back in New Orleans for a few months since completing an intensive drug rehabilitation program, but the trombonist and vocalist has already written and […]
A Month to Remember: New Orleans Shines in January
This past January was an eventful month of music in which New Orleans witnessed more highlights than most of the world’s top cultural cities experience in a year. Memorable shows […]
Party City
I’ve been to a lot of parties in my time, but last night was one of the most phenomenal New Orleans parties—ever. The New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation (NOTMC)—the local […]
Best of The Beat 2012
Please come to our 2012 Best of The Beat Awards, Friday, January 18 at Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive. Doors open at 6 p.m. with food from 25 great New […]
Best of The Beat 2012 and Mississippi Music Museums
By the time our Weekly Beat goes to press, the winners of the 2012 Best of The Beat awards will have been nominated by the music community, and voted on […]
Dr. John’s New Management Talks
Dr. John completed a successful and tumultuous 2012 by signing with a new management team and parting ways with his Lower 911 band, the tight unit that has backed him […]
Jazz Comes Home to South Rampart Street
New Orleans still doesn’t have its music museum. Over the weekend the Times-Pic reported that a 26,000-square foot space that’s literally within the Saenger Theatre redevelopment on Canal Street is […]
Most of My Favorite Local Records of 2012
Reading the lists and catching some flak made me itch to put my own preferences down. What follows is necessarily incomplete because I can’t even pretend to listen to everything […]
Keep Those Bullets From Flying (Into Your Head)
This is our last Weekly Beat missive for 2012, and it’s certainly been a wild year. The year 2012 marked OffBeat‘s 25th anniversary, which was the first time yours truly […]
