Offbeat Cover for October, 2008

October 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Trent Reznor: Before the Slip

Features

Happy Talk: Everybody’s Talking

Indie Rock: A Little Help

New Orleans Film Festival: Past Due

Voodoo Fest: You Do Voodoo

Who’s on Top?

BackTalk

Clint Maedgen

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Café Minh

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with John Boutte

Fresh

Brass Tasks

From France to Frenchmen Street

Goin’ Back to Gretna

It’s All in the Game

More Seafood, More Festival

The Voice of Urgency

Obituaries

Obituary: Earl Palmer (1924-2008)

Obituary: George Davis (1938-2008)

Reviews

Alias:Orion, While the City Burned (SixtyThirteen)

Ballzack, Yeah Indeed (Independent)

Carla Bley Big Band, Appearing Nightly (Watt)

Charlie Haden Family and Friends, Rambling Boy (Decca)

Coco Robicheaux, Like I Said, Yeah, U Rite!: The Techneaux Swamp Sessions (Independent)

Fight the Big Bull, Dying will be Easy (Numero Group)

Grayson Capps, Rot ‘n’ Roll (Hyena)

Kerry Grombacher, It Sings in the Hi-Line (Independent)

Mitch Woods, Jukebox Drive (El Toro)

Riccardo Crespo, Milonga of New Orleans (Independent)

Sugarland, Love on the Inside (Mercury)

The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire, The 1970 NYC Concert (fieldrecorder.com)

The Iguanas, If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times (Yep Roc)

The Other Planets, Holiday for Vacationers! (Everything Awesome All The Time) (Attention Spaniel/Ears & Eyes)

The Pfister Sisters, Puttin’ It On (Mambo Goddess)

The Replacements, All Shook Down (Sire/Rhino)

The Zydepunks, Finisterre (Independent)

Thou, Tyrant (Gilead Media)

Mojo Mouth

Trying to Find the Words

Letters

October 2008 Letters