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Bonnaroo Dates Announced by OffBeat Staff

Superfly Productions has announced the dates for the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, to take place June 10 – 13, 2010. The four-day fe …

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Podcast: Four Minutes with the Panorama Brass Band by Colin Jones

Colin Jones talks with Ben Schenck of the Panorama Jazz Band after the release of this year’s Keep on Swingin’. …

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YouTube du Jour: Making Zack Smith’s “Faces of Rock”
Zack Smith, the photographer and drummer for Rotary Downs launched a project documenting the New Orleans indie rock scene on August 29 this year at Carrollton Station, and it will show at the NOIR Fest at the Blue Nile Saturday night. Here's a look behind the project. View full size...

Blogs & Stuff

Get Off Your Butts and Protest, Please!

I put out a little teaser in today’s WB about a noise ordinance that’s going to be voted on by the New Orleans City Council on November 19, 2009. It seems that Councilman James Carter introduced this

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Maybe Interweb Critics Were Right

If this is the best the blogosphere can muster as a critique of Christmas music, then maybe the luddites are on to something:

I happened to tune in to a few minutes of O’Reilly today, and sure enou

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Shaft’s Long Shadow

Much the same way that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez mimicked 1970s B-movies in Grindhouse, the new Black Dynamite takes pains to evoke the classic blaxploitation film, down to the soundtrack

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Rock City Morgue

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Castle Gray Skull
Rock City Morgue has generally traded on a version of New York-based, B-movie-oriented punk rock for much Read more...
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Irma Thomas

The Soul Queen of New Orleans: 50th Anniversary Celebration
Rounder
On which we celebrate the Queen’s 49th anniversary in show business, actually, counting from her first Read more...
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the subdudes

Flower Petals
429
After the straightforward verisimilitude of its CD/DVD release Live at the Ram’s Head, the new subdud Read more...
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Jeremy Davenport

We'll Dance 'Til Dawn
Basin Street
Jeremy Davenport has lived much of his career in quotation marks, a living homage to another day and styl Read more...
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Harry Connick, Jr.

Your Songs
Columbia
I assume that the title—Your Songs—is a reference to standards, songs that belong to all of us. On hi Read more...
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Clarence Bucaro

New Orleans
Hyena
On his latest album, New Orleans, Clarence Bucaro revisits a project he shelved prior to releasing 2008's Read more...
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Mike Hood

Hocus Pocus
STR Digital
Pianist Mike Hood knows how to please a crowd during his regular gigs at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, as Read more...
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Jivin’ Gene

It’s Never Too Late
Jin
Jivin’ Gene was one of the original swamp poppers, having made a regional splash on his very first sing Read more...
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Plunge

Dancing on Thin Ice
Immersion
For the first time in 13 years, trombonist Marc McGrain has convened a group of musicians to record an Read more...
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Betty Davis

Is It Love or Desire
Light in the Attic
It’s desire. On the album Betty Davis recorded in 1976 at Studio in the Woods in Bogalusa, the titl Read more...
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