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The New Showcase Lounge, Tango Tango Restaurant and Tony’s in Treme Provide More Live Jazz Options

Mobo Records Arists Everlasting Hitman Shot to Death; Yours Truly Chaddy 1 P.U.S.’s Big Easy Features “Sophisticated Bounce” and More

Local rap fans are mourning the loss of 21-year-old Everlasting Hitman (Floyd Blount). Blount died February 3rd after being shot in the Fischer Housing Development. Blount will best be remembered […]

The Annual Mardi Gras vs. Jazz Fest Debate; A Quick Overview of Jazz Fest Web Sites; Bingemen, Paula & the Pontiacs Pages

Mardi Gras is over, which means it’s time to plan for Jazz Fest. Internet users around the world already are. Dozens of posts to the music discussion Usenet newsgroups asking […]

Behold Dead Man Walking, Sense and Sensibility and Burnt By the Sun; Our Fearless Oscar Predictions

Pregnant Is Born, A Dip in the Royal Fingerbowl, and WTUL’s Rock-On Survival Marathon

Gimme Some Seafood, Mama: The Galley Restaurant Is a Fried Food Lover’s Delight

Bob Gordy, Bunny Matthews and George Ferbes Put Our Columnist in the Mind of 1986

Better Than Ezra Lands New Drummer, Heads into Studio; Adios from OffBeat’s Editor

Swamp Poppers Honored By Gulf Coast Museum; Notes on the Mamou Playboys, the Cowboy Stew Blues Revue, “South to Louisiana”