Issue Articles — Features
Dr. Steven Price: Best of the Beat 2013 Heartbeat Award Honoree
Dr. Steven Price is a warm and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle in a certain way when he speaks to you. That twinkle radiates outward to embrace the people who […]
Jason Patterson: Lifetime Achievement Award in Music Education (2013)
Education comes in varying forms. It can be obtained in formal, institutionalized settings or a casual conversation. Simply, it is the passing on or receiving of knowledge. When Jason Patterson, […]
Louisiana Musicians Make Naughty and Nice 2014 New Year’s Resolutions
Ingrid Lucia: My realistic resolution is “quality over quantity,” but my outrageous one is to make my single “Ladies Football Nation” a number-one hit! It’s my crunk anthem to the […]
Critics’ Picks for 2013’s Best Louisiana Music Albums
Culled from over 200 Louisiana releases, OffBeat’s critics recommend five albums that you should add to your collection. David Kunian The Next Generation Big Band: Harold Battiste Presents the […]
Top 50 Louisiana Music Albums of 2013
From Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s new sound that’s anchored in the past to the New Orleans Suspects live at the Maple Leaf, 2013 has been a great year for Louisiana […]
Christmas on St. Claude Avenue
As more businesses open along St. Claude Avenue and in Marigny and Bywater, shopping locally for the holidays just makes sense. Other small cities can only dream about what we […]
Gregg Martinez: Creole Soul, Surreal Power
At the corner of East Grolee and North Oak―in a historic, tree-lined neighborhood that Gregg Martinez jokingly refers to as Opelousas’ Garden District―stands a white, wood-frame 1903 Colonial house surrounded […]
Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh Finds Purgatory and Paradise in New Orleans
Whenever a rock ’n’ roll figure moves to New Orleans—from biggies like Courtney Love and Trent Reznor to cult heroes Alex Chilton, Dave Pirner and Peter Holsapple—they’re usually absorbed into […]
