OffBeat Editorial: Considering the Amusement Tax

For as long as OffBeat has been around — seven years this past August — we’ve heard complaints about the city’s amusement tax from music club owners who say that […]

Meet Kenny Wayne Shepherd

In the journeyman, dues-paying, endless one-nighter world of blues, isn’t nineteen years old a little young to strike it big? Some would say you’re supposed to suffer a little, or […]

Mem Shannon: Blues on Wheels

Mem Shannon is the blues personified, and he has been going places for 25 years. He is one of the most well-traveled men you’ll ever meet—yet he’s never ventured north […]

Marva Wright

Marva Wright, a house-hold name in New Orleans, is finally where she wants to be—in demand. In her home town, in her own country, and especially abroad. She has numerous […]

An Overview of Jazz Awareness Month; Organist Jimmy Smith to Headline ‘OZ Benefit

Mystikal Goes National; Ace Records Scoops Up R&B-Gospel Singer Samuel Warren

Speculation On Jazz’s Birth Date, Its Creator, and the Major Figures Over the Years; Jazzy Sites on the Worldwide Web

7th Annual New Orleans Film & Video Festival Slated for October 13-22, 1995

Vox Editor Gets Canned; Notes on Glyn Styler, Lump, Underground Sounds, Neutral Milk Hotel

Stanley Jackson’s Definitive Gumbo at Le Bon Creole; Richard Benz Takes Over at Upperline