Blogs
Good News/Bad News for Fishheads
After we received numerous emails and phone calls telling us that we should have the Radiators on the cover of our Jazz Fest issue, we poked around and found the […]
Jazz Fest Poster—The New Big Mac?
The Jazz Fest poster has been worse. 2004’s Harry Connick, Jr. poster holds that dishonor for being banal and presenting a Connick that looks more like Warren Beatty. But let’s […]
Jazz Fest News: Arcade Fire, Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, Cyndi Lauper and the Strokes
The Arcade Fire (Friday, May 6) are in Los Angeles to perform at the Grammys on Sunday night, and while there, they visited radio station KROQ to record an acoustic […]
Preview the New Generationals
This year, OffBeat‘s pleased to sponsor the Generationals at South by Southwest, where they’ll preview their new album, Actor-Caster. Today Spin.com has a free download of the sunny “Greenleaf.” The […]
The Season’s Over, and …
… for a while yesterday, I hoped that if nobody scored, maybe the Saints could keep the title for another year. That didn’t happen. … I thought National Anthem singers […]
Yann Tiersen Weathers the Snows of Texas
Saturday night, Yann Tiersen plays the Republic Saturday night. He’s been shooting a video diary of the tour, and in this installment he documents being stuck in the snow in […]
Lineup Announcements: Foburg and Dear New Orleans
Foburg, the indie rock festival started by the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective, has its lineup up now, and Ra Ra Riot and Das Racist top the bill. The Frenchmen […]
Jazz Fest News: Decemberists, Mumford & Sons and Amos Lee
News about artists in the lineup for Jazz Fest this year: The Decemberists (Sunday, May 1) have recorded a lovely pop song, “The Great Outdoors,” for the Nickelodeon kids show […]
Enough for Now
One last Best of the Beat thought before we put this year’s event to bed: Last spring at SXSW, the scheduled Big Star showcase became a tribute to Alex Chilton […]
OffBeat Looks at the Weekend
OffBeat editor Alex Rawls appeared on the Fox8 Morning Show with Jennifer Hale this morning to talk about Lil Wayne, the Best of the Beat, Yo La Tengo and Monotonix. […]
