DJ Soul Sister, 2009 Best of the Beat Award winner for Best DJ, is turning 35 on September 9, and to mark the milestone she’s throwing the funk party of the fall. Anyone who grew up in New Orleans remembers birthday parties at Airline Skate Center, but Soul Sister is doing one better. This Friday, [...]
Jazz trumpeter Clyde Kerr, Jr. ,a renowned teacher at NOCCA, passed away at the beginning of August. In our September issue, some of his former students, including Troy Andrews and Irvin Mayfield, talk about how much they learned from Kerr, not just about playing jazz, but about art and life in general.
In this video by [...]
Vinyl fans rejoice! Brand new Bywater music shop Euclid Records opened its doors for their first day of business yesterday, offering up thousands of used and new LPS, 45s, CDs (they still make those?) and other musical goodies. Rumors from the inaugural day (via Facebook) are that guitarist/singer King Louie bought a Billy Preston record [...]
Ten years ago, a brand-new, struggling New Orleans Musicians Clinic (NOMC) produced and released an excellent fundraiser album, Get You A Healin’. The CD featured local heavy hitters like the Funky Meters, Allen Toussaint, Donald Harrison, Jr. (recording a tribute to his father, Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr.), and even keyboard kings Dr. John and Art [...]
Basin Street Records announced today that the Rebirth Brass Band has signed with the label, and will be releasing their first Basin Street album early next year. It won’t be their first recordings with Basin Street—they played with former member and co-founder Kermit Ruffins on 2005’s Throwback. However, the upcoming album will be Rebirth’s first [...]
Of all the gigs rapper Mystikal has done since the start of his career, tonight’s concert at House of Blues will be one of the most important. It is only his second solo show in New Orleans since being released from jail in January after serving a 6-year sentence. In this month’s Backtalk interview he [...]
As Ben Jaffe points out in this month’s issue of OffBeat, the oil spill has become our region’s gravest problem, and one will that we will be fighting for year’s to come. Several benefits took place earlier in the summer, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. Tonight, One Eyed Jacks hosts [...]
Yesterday, New Orleans-bred DJ Quickie Mart released the third volume in his smoke-filled series of hip-hop albums, Haze Diaries, with rapper Gotham Green. Quickie Mart produced the beats on 11 of the record’s 18 tracks, as well as providing turntable scratches and recording the entire album.
Haze Diaries Vol. 3 provides an ideal sun-soaked soundtrack for [...]
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Tonight, current young hip-hop phenom and New Orleans native Curren$y is hosting a free album release party at Republic, with local DJs EF Cuttin, DJ Chicken, and DJ Slab 1 playing in support. His new record, Pilot Talk, came out today on DD172/BluRoc Records. Curren$y was last in town on 4/20, when he played one [...]
