“The President of Soul,” Rockie Charles, passed away Friday morning after battling cancer. The blues guitarist – whose real name was Charles Merrick – was scheduled to play Jazz Fest this year and last year recorded a new album in Denmark, I Want First Class. His “Before I Find the Right Girl for Me” is [...]
On Saturday night, the Revivalists will play a CD-release party for their new album, Vital Signs, at the Blue Nile as part of Foburg. Here they are at One Eyed Jacks playing “Concrete (Fish Out of Water).”
Tonight kicks off the 7th annual Patois International Human Rights Film Festival, which will be screening films around New Orleans through Sunday, March 21. To kick off the festival, a benefit concert for the relief efforts of Partners in Health in Haiti is being held at Maison on Frenchmen St. The show will be hosted [...]
Tonight from 7-11 p.m., Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes play the Mother-in-Law Lounge, which had a car run into its wall only last monday. This is a return of sorts for Vincent, whose band usually backed Ernie K-Doe when he first opened the Mother-in-Law in the mid-90’s. Here, Vincent plays his deep-funk classic “Dap [...]
Tonight, Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute grad Johnaye Kendrick plays Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse. Here she is at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art backed by Davy Mooney on guitar performing Sting’s “Until.”
Hopes for the impact of the upcoming HBO series Treme have been high since it was announced, but its making its presence felt right away. The series debuts in early April, but tickets are on sale now for “My Darlin’ New Orleans,“ a gala and auction thrown by Treme that will take place March 27 at Generations [...]
Galactic played Jimmy Kimmel Live last week with guest vocalist Cyril Neville singing the song performed by Irma Thomas on Ya-Ka-May.
We’ve heard from many of you about our cover text for the March issue, and if we had the chance to do it again, we’d go in a different direction. In retrospect, it was ill-chosen and we apologize to those who are offended by it, and to MyNameIsJohnMichael, the band that appeared on the cover [...]
The song “Character Piece” from MyNameIsJohnMichael’s The People That Come and Go album appears as the bed music for a new commercial for the jewelry line for Gossip Girl and former Buffy star Michelle Trachtenberg.
Austin’s Jon Dee Graham plays the Ogden Museum of Southern Art tonight at 6 p.m. Here’s an introduction to Graham from the 2008 documentary Jon Dee Graham: Swept Away. OffBeat editor Alex Rawls will interview Graham as part of the show.
