It’s giveaway time, and OffBeat and the House of Blues are at it again. Except this time, the stakes are higher… We’re throwing down a pair of balcony tickets for both Steve Earle’s show on Friday, October 12 and John Hiatt’s show next Wednesday, October 17 ($300 value). To enter into the drawing, simply fill [...]
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Michael Glassberg of Hotel Monteleone Wins Melodic Mixology Cocktail Competition
July 17, 2012 – 3:02 pm
In June, OffBeat announced a new cocktail contest we co-sponsored along with Herbsaint: The Melodic Mixology Competition. The rules were simple: New Orleans-area bartenders were asked to make an original cocktail recipe that met three guidelines: 1. it used Legendre Herbsaint 100 Proof, 2. it used no more than 7 ingredients, and 3. the cocktail [...]
Strike Gold with Tipitina’s at OffBeat’s French Quarter Festival Booth
April 12, 2012 – 4:19 pm
This Jazz Fest, Tipitina’s will introduce “The Golden Ticket”, which gets the holder and a guest entry to all the club’s shows for the weekend (and not into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, as you might think). OffBeat will give away a Golden Ticket for each Jazz Fest weekend to two people who sign up for [...]
DJ House Shoes at the Big Top: Ticket Giveaway
August 5, 2011 – 11:30 am
Michael “HouseShoes” Buchanan, Detroit’s premier DJ and hip-hop ambassador, is coming to The Big Top tonight. House Shoes is at the top of a budding Motown resurgence and has worked closely with several other hip-hop artists and producers/MCs including J Dilla, Guilty Simpson, and Black Milk (and you can download his podcasts here). House Shoes [...]
YouTube du Jour: Louis Armstrong
August 4, 2011 – 11:30 am
Tonight, Satchmo SummerFest starts with its opening reception and keynote talk at Muriel’s (801 Chartres St.). British music writer Richard Havers and producer Russ Titelman will discuss Satchmo: Louis Armstrong-Ambassador of Jazz, a handsomely packaged new 10-disc box set which includes a fair amount of previously unreleased material. Here’s Armstrong in 1959 in Germany performing [...]
Make Your Own Generationals
July 28, 2011 – 11:44 am
Remixers – start your ProTools. Generationals have posted two songs for remix from their recent album, Actor-Caster. The files for “Greenleaf” and “Ten-Twenty-Ten” are available for download here, along with the announcement of the deadlines and prizes available for this remix contest, which includes a year’s subscription to Rdio.
Red Bull Street Kings Brass Band Blowout Saturday
October 19, 2010 – 4:30 pm
On Saturday, October 23, the Red Bull Street Kings Brass Band Blowout will be holding an event in the place where much of New Orleans’ rich musical heritage was born—the street. To be held at 2 p.m. under the North Claiborne I-10 overpass, Red Bull Street Kings is a competition designed to showcase the newer [...]
WTUL and Tipitina’s OK Go Video Contest: 2 Weeks Left to Enter
September 29, 2010 – 1:00 pm
Pop/rock band OK Go have made a name for themselves in the modern music industry for their highly entertaining, cleverly choreographed music videos that have become viral phenomena on the web. Their latest, for the new punk/funk-inspired “White Knuckles,” took 12 dogs and 124 takes to nail in a single continuous shot. OK Go is [...]
