Issue Articles — Features
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Gary Edwards
It’s somewhat appropriate that this year Gary Edwards is the recipient of OffBeat’s Lifetime Achievement Award, annually given to a member of the New Orleans music-business community, since he recently […]
The Strangest Album Covers of 2014
2014 was a tough year for album design. Maybe we can blame the economy for that. Not enough money for musicians means not enough money to pay photographers and designers […]
Top 50 Louisiana Album Releases of 2014
OffBeat writers and editors have assembled here for your reading, listening and scoffing pleasure a list of what we consider the best 50 albums released in 2014 by Louisiana artists. The […]
New Orleans Jazz Landmarks Languish in Disrepair
New Orleans is known as the birthplace of jazz, but that general statement needs some refining in terms of location. Specifically, where in the Crescent City did this music come […]
Face to Face with Doug Kershaw and Steve Riley
Take one monumental figure from the history of Cajun music. Combine in equal portions with the reigning master of contemporary Cajun music. Blend in a couple of 90-year-old accordions and […]
The Killer’s Tale: Rick Bragg Examines the Life and Legend of Jerry Lee Lewis
“One thing that struck me about Jerry Lee,” Rick Bragg recalls from the scores of in-home interviews he conducted over the summers of 2011 and 2012 while crafting his exquisite, […]
All I Want for Christmas
OffBeat approached a variety of local musicians and asked them: If you had to choose just one album—by any artist of any genre from any time period—to give as a Christmas […]
The New Orleans Nightingales are a Group of Bad-Ass Women
It sounds like a setup for a parlor game: If you could get 19 of the best female voices in New Orleans together for one song, which one would it […]
Norbert Slama Romances the World
It’s rather an understatement when Norbert Slama says, “I’m moving all the time—I have to move all the time.” As revealed in his recently published memoir, Norbert Slama: How a […]
Galactic Reinvents Itself
It’s shakeup time again for Galactic, who’ve already been through a few handfuls of changes in the past decade. Their New Year’s Eve show at Tipitina’s will feature two notable […]
