On its new Carnivale Electricos, Galactic rearranges one of Mardi Gras’ signature songs—“Carnival Time”—and brings along the man who wrote it and made it famous, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson. The album is due out on Fat Tuesday—February 21—but since parades have started and it is Carnival Time, the band has given us the song as [...]
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Theresa Andersson: A First Listen to New Album Street Parade
January 20, 2012 – 6:38 pm
Last summer, those who contributed to her Kickstarter campaign were able to eavesdrop via webcam on Theresa Andersson as she started recording the follow-up to 2008′s Hummingbird, Go! The album is now complete, and Street Parade will be out April 24, once again with Tobias Froberg serves as producer. Today, Spin.com posted a track, “What [...]
‘Tis the Season: Reindeer Games, Porter and More
December 19, 2011 – 2:59 pm
Christmas is only a week away, but the Christmas music keeps coming. Clint Maedgen and Helen Gillet have teamed up to record “Reindeer Games,” which you can hear and share on Facebook or download here. George Porter, Jr. released Christmas in New Orleans last year, but since we finally got a copy in the office [...]
‘Tis the Season: John Waters, Spotify and More
December 1, 2011 – 3:14 pm
Listen to “An OffBeat Christmas 2011″ playlist on Spotify In 2004, filmmaker/artist/writer John Waters extended his exploration of taste to Christmas music when he released A John Waters Christmas. Unfortunately, the tape of my interview with Waters when the album came out was a Katrina casualty, though a few quotes survive in a story I [...]
James McMurtry Offers Free Download Supporting Occupy Wall Street
November 15, 2011 – 9:50 am
Texas singer/songwriter (and regular performer at One Eyed Jacks) James McMurtry has made his song “We Can’t Make it Here” available for free download. The seven-year-old song dramatizes income disparity, and people are encouraged to use it as the soundtrack for videos supporting the Occupy movement, the best of which will be posted on McMurtry’s [...]
Live Music NOLA/OffBeat Compilation, Volume 1
November 2, 2011 – 7:03 pm
German/Jewish poet Berthold Auerbach said “music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Live music is a source of vital nourishment that replenishes the soul, a regular part of living in New Orleans, where experiencing it fully means feeling the power and energy of a live performance. Live Music NOLA‘s mission is [...]
Voodoo Experience News: Mastodon, A-Trak, Snoop Dogg, GIVERS
September 23, 2011 – 11:35 am
Heavy rock band Mastodon will play The Voodoo Experience on Saturday, October 29. Its new album, The Hunter, is due out Tuesday, but the band has made the whole record available for streaming on YouTube: A-Trak (Sunday, October 30) also spins for SiriusXM. If you don’t get it, you can download his latest episode [...]
Free Creole String Beans Download
September 19, 2011 – 10:07 am
The Creole String Beans have a new album, Shrimp Boots & Vintage Suits, coming out in October. You can preview the album at Zatarain’s Facebook page, where the company has posted a download link to a song from the album, “Funky Spillway.”
Free JohnMichael
August 9, 2011 – 3:23 pm
MyNameIsJohnMichael has just put another track from the band’s upcoming album available for download. “Elders” is now online along with “Orphan,” and you can get both here.
Free Download from King Louie’s Missing Monuments
August 2, 2011 – 2:13 pm
Garage pop band Missing Monuments, led by rock veteran King Louie, are offering a free MP3 of the song “(It’s Like) XTC” from their recent album, Painted White. In Sam Levine’s July review of the Missing Monuments’ Painted White, he wrote, “In the Springsteen-esque “(It’s Like) XTC,” the narrator makes clever love/drug puns while he [...]
