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Ah, Jazz Fest. With the annual announcement of performers at the Fair Grounds comes the usual outpouring of praise and adulation — as well as the surfeit of gripes and complaints — about the line-up. Always interested in public opinion of the local music scene, we here at OffBeat posted a question to the message [...]
With the South by Southwest Music Conference happening in Austin this month and the LMNOP Conference slated for its second year in New Orleans in April, March seemed an appropriate time to devote this column to Internet resources for musicians. Through the ‘net, and particularly the World Wide Web, songwriters and bands have a huge [...]
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In the long history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, many developments have come along to improve the celebration while preserving the wonderful traditions that make it such a unique event. Most nighttime floats are now lit with electric lights, for example, but krewes still incorporate the torch-bearers and flambeaux — once responsible for lighting [...]
While the amount of growth in Web presence among local bands, businesses and organizations seemed to taper a bit in 1997, the overall quality of sites improved dramatically. Apparently, as the medium continues its rapid development, smaller, less-interesting and (especially) static sites are being overlooked in favor of those with a large amount of content, [...]
As pioneers in the funk genre, the Meters are widely acknowledged as one of the most influential New Orleans bands on today’s funk, groove, acid-jazz and jam bands. Their in-the-pocket grooves backed a number of New Orleans soul and R&B singers, among them Dr. John and Lee Dorsey, on records cut in the 1960s at [...]
To keep all the blues lovers occupied after they’ve finished our chock full o’ blues November issue, here are some of the top blues Web sites and resources on the Internet. Interestingly, unlike a few of the jazz sites mentioned in last month’s column, the larger blues sites are almost exclusively non-commercial, a testament to [...]
