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Stooges Brass Band Release New Record, Play Show With Ricky B.

After 10 years, the Stooges Brass Band have released their second recording. However, you’re going to need a turntable to hear it: the first professional recording of the seminal band’s […]

New Orleans Concert Picks of the Week: July 25 – 31, 2013

Hungry for live music… Look no further! Here’s OffBeat’s look at New Orleans’ top concerts for the week of July 25 – July 31, 2013 featuring: G. Love and Special […]

Voodoo Music Experience Releases Second 2013 Line-Up Announcement

Awaiting each year’s line-up announcements for the fall’s Voodoo Music Experience (VMX) at City Park is always rife with anticipation. Alas, the day is here: the Voodoo festival’s organizer’s released […]

Big Star Documentary New Orleans Premiere

Nothing Can Hurt Me, the documentary film about Big Star—the legendary early-‘70s pop combo fronted by eternal cult hero Alex Chilton—will finally make its debut in Chilton’s adopted hometown of […]

Carol Fran To Play Rare Show at Snug Harbor

A longtime jewel of Louisiana music, soul and blues singer/pianist Carol Fran seldom appears in New Orleans nowadays. But she’ll hit town next weekend for two shows at Snug Harbor […]

Ponderosa Stomp Adds Sonics, Announces Panels

The Ponderosa Stomp has slipped in a surprise addition to its lineup for October: Northwest garage legends the Sonics. Arguably the prototype for all garage bands, the Sonics are known […]

OffBeat Wins Big At Press Club
of New Orleans Awards

It was a big night for OffBeat at the Press Club of New Orleans awards, held July 20 at the Theatre inside Harrah’s Casino and Resort downtown. OffBeat and its […]

InstaBEAT: OffBeat Readers Hit The Street With Instagram

Ok NOLA music fans, here’s your chance to get your pics printed in OffBeat Magazine! For our August issue, we are launching #instaBEAT – choice action shots posted to Instagram […]

Trombone Shorty Announces New Disc

A Meters reunion will be one of the likely highlights of Trombone Shorty‘s new album, Say That To Say This, which will be released September 10 on Verve Records. The […]

New uptown music venue, Gasa Gasa,
opens with the Honorable South

The Freret Street neighborhood has been booming this season. More than a handful of new restaurants and bars have opened on the short eight-block uptown strip in just the past […]