Foburg Festival, the indie music fest scheduled around the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, has announced its 2012 lineup, with Maps and Atlases, Japanther, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and Big Freedia headlining. Foburg Festival, now in its third year, will take place Friday, March 9 through Sunday, March 11, and [...]
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Gina Forsyth, Promised Land (Waterbug Records)
February 1, 2012 – 12:54 am
Attention musicians: For those thinking they need to rush their product out with sub-par material and inferior packaging for that nifty festival gig, take note of Gina Forsyth. The New Orleans singer-songwriter/roots musician never releases anything before it’s damn good and ready—and then some—thanks to Katrina and other life interruptions. Her solo sophomore effort is [...]
The Breton Sound, Eudaemonia (Independent)
February 1, 2012 – 12:49 am
You could accuse the Breton Sound of creating awfully high expectations for itself if you assume that the pop/rock music audience knows its Aristotle. Eudaemonia was his term for the highest human good, but more people will likely learn that as I did (by Googling it), so the album title signals little more than these [...]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra at One Eyed Jacks February 14
February 1, 2012 – 12:19 am
A song by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra comes on like a thunderstorm. The skies darken, things creak in the stillness, someone remarks on the ominous mood and suddenly the world erupts in a calamity of lightning and upheaval. When you think the world is saturated with such unrest, it peters out and the [...]
February 2012 Letters
February 1, 2012 – 12:01 am
JOHNNY AND SCOTT I first came across OffBeat back in the 1990s. I had discovered this new singer,
Keb’ Mo’ + Anders Osborne at House of Blues, January 29: Photos
January 31, 2012 – 7:00 pm
After a short tour supporting blues singer/guitarist Keb’ Mo’, Anders Osborne returned with him to New Orleans for a show at House of Blues Sunday, January 29. Osborne opened the concert with a solo acoustic performance, playing seven new songs and even blowing some tunes on the harmonica (see him play the harp on “Back [...]
The Kills + Jeff the Brotherhood at House of Blues, January 26
January 30, 2012 – 6:14 pm
Thursday night, rock duo The Kills—Allison “VV” Mosshart and James “Hotel” Hince—played House of Blues with Jeff the Brotherhood and Hunters opening. Alex Cook previewed the concert for our January issue’s Plan A featured show. All photos below were taken by Allyce Andrew.
The Alabama Shakes: Right At Home with Newfound Fame
January 18, 2012 – 2:27 pm
You can’t ignore the sense of place in the music of the Alabama Shakes. It’s right there in the quartet’s name. Simply the Shakes at first, when forced to pick a new name to avoid copyrights they just added the name of their home. Lead singer Brittany Howard wears that home on her sleeve—literally. She [...]
