New Orleans Concert Picks of the Week: October 31 – November 6, 2013

Hungry for live music… Look no further! Here’s OffBeat’s look at New Orleans’ top concerts for the week of October 31 – November 6, 2013 featuring: Galactic, Dumpstaphunk, Widespread Panic, […]

New Orleans Concert Picks of the Week: October 17 – 23, 2013

Hungry for live music… Look no further! Here’s OffBeat’s look at New Orleans’ top concerts for the week of October 17 – October 23, 2013 featuring: Bass Drum of Death, […]

RIP Ready Teddy (Terence McQuiston) – NOLA Bluesman and WWOZ Vet

We’re sorry to report the death of Terence McQuiston, the bluesman and WWOZ FM DJ who was better known by his stage name Ready Teddy. Word of his death was […]

Apple Barrel Is Not Closing,
Just Going Through Changes

The rumors in the Twittersphere started on Sunday: “The Apple Barrel is closing.”—Twitter is a rumor-monger’s dream come true. Well, it’s not true. The Apple Barrel is not closing; it […]

New Orleans Concert Picks of the Week: July 18 – 24, 2013

Hungry for live music… Look no further! Here’s OffBeat’s look at New Orleans’ top concerts for the week of July 18 – July 24, 2013 featuring: Geno Delafose, the Brass-A-Holics, […]

Jazz Fest Recap, Thursday, May 2: Patti Smith, Roy Ayers & More

For a certain stripe of blues fan, the older, wilder and more obscure the performer the better. If you’re of that mindset, you probably saw Drink Small, the 80-year-old South […]

Jazz Fest 2013 Lineup A to Z Performer Guide

  The producers of Jazz Fest are fond of noting that fans who come for the big names always wind up discovering some unique, mind-blowing act they’d never see elsewhere. […]

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ALL-STAR CAST DOES “NINE LIVES” LIVE

  A rare performance of Nine Lives, the acclaimed musical and double CD, will take place in New Orleans between Jazz Fest weekends. The play features 39 original songs by […]

French Quarter Fest 2013: A to Z Guide

Browse Every French Quarter Fest 2013 Performer Below A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | […]

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Most of My Favorite Local Records of 2012

Reading the lists and catching some flak made me itch to put my own preferences down. What follows is necessarily incomplete because I can’t even pretend to listen to everything […]