Issue Articles — Features
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Steve and Cézanne Nails
After a car crash left musician Steve Nails paralyzed in 1984, he searched for a way to stay in music. Dockside Studio on the banks of the Vermilion River near […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Michael Pellera
“I always suspected I might have a talent for teaching because my mind always wanted answers to questions,” says pianist Michael Pellera, whose first serious jump into academia came at […]
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer): Clarence Johnson III
“I’m not necessarily just trying to play music, I’m using music to imitate life,” says the ever-soulful and spiritual saxophonist Clarence Johnson III. “Guys like Wayne Shorter, they’ll go in […]
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Musician): Anders Osborne
When Anders Osborne started his Send Me a Friend foundation last year, he had a simple goal: He wanted musicians in recovery from substance addiction to continue working as musicians. […]
Bon Voyage!: Music on the High Seas
The coming months will find a few local favorites taking to the high seas. Concert cruises have become a big deal in recent years, one of the ultimate indulgences for […]
The complete list of nominees for Best of the Beat
The OffBeat Music and Cultural Arts Foundation’s Best of the Beat Awards 2017 nominations are in. We solicited nominations from musicians and others in the music community. We then gave […]
Simply the Best: The 50 Best Albums of 2017
We’ve polled our writers and editorial staff and have gathered 50 of our most recommended albums of the year. We didn’t include reissues and only included releases reviewed in 2017. […]
Web Exclusive: Doin’ Something Different – Ivan Neville’s NOLA nites
Ivan Neville has reach. So there’s a good chance if he calls a musician up for a gig and they’re free they’ll say, “Yea, man.” That’s what the keyboardist, vocalist […]
Web Exclusive: Remembering Fats
I was friends with Fats for the last twenty and a half years of his life, and I am still amazed that I got to ride the tail end of […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Louisiana Christmas with Loose Cattle
Rod Hodges walked into the Music Shed in mid-August to cut tracks for Loose Cattle’s Christmas album, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and a muggy New Orleans summer day suddenly transformed into […]
