Issue Articles
Jimmy’s Celebrates Its First 15 Years; Harold Battiste Recuperating
It’s been 15 years since Jimmy Anselmo purchased the pool hall at 8200 Willow Street, booted out the regular clientele—which mostly consisted of patients from a methadone clinic up the […]
TULBox on the Move; Notes on the Fluid, Stavin’ Chain and PJ Harvey
Supporters of WTUL’s TULbox live simulcasts need not fret that the college rock series has been dumped—it’s merely on hiatus. A Monday night fixture at Tipitina’s since 1988, the show […]
The Butthole Surfers, State Palace Theater, June 23, 1993
Production deadlines meant we worked through the first three bands on this bill (Basehead, fiREHOSE and the Stone Temple Pilots) before sauntering across Canal Street into a packed, steam bath-like […]
Letters July 1993
I thank you very much for the copy of OffBeat you sent. I was formerly a Wavelength subscriber and I appreciate highly that there is another magazine covering so well […]
New Orleans Hip-Hop: Whither Rap?
The bridges that link New Orleans’ rap and hip-hop community to the more traditional pillars of the city’s musical legacy go well beyond some rappers’ fondness for sampling the Meters […]
Daniel Lanois’ Dilemma
Sometime New Orleans resident Daniel Lanois is one of the world’s most sought after producers—so busy, in fact, that he rarely finds time to work at his French Quarter studio. […]
John Campbell Remembered
John Campbell, the Shreveport-born slide guitarist and self-professed hoodoo man, hated going to sleep, for fear he would not wake up. “He didn’t like the day to end,” remembers his […]
Octa Clark Released; Potato Dance at the Mamou Cajun Music Festival
New releases are at the top of the column this month, because there are so many of them and they’re so good. First, great news for lovers of old-time Cajun […]
Tomato Festival and Carnaval Latino Jazz; New Release from Greg Tardy
International is the catch word for jazz in June with two important festivals holding down the first and third weekends. The month begins with the Caribbean-flavored Tomato Festival’s main food […]
Colin England Is Out of Control; Meet the Don Rousell Band
New Orleans native Colin England has a new album on Motown Records called Out of Control. The first single from the LP is an uptempo, “Come Over Baby.” England co-wrote […]
