Music
The New Orleans Bingo! Show, Vol. 1: Soft Emergencies (Independent)
Clint Maedgen is as eclectic as he is prolific, and late last year he released the EP Clint Maedgen and the album Soft Emergencies under the Bingo! Show monicker. […]
Craig Klein
Of all this year’s recipients of OffBeat’s Heartbeat Award, the Arabi Wrecking Krewe may have the most organic origins. Bonerama member Craig Klein’s house in Arabi was damaged by Hurricane […]
Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: The Musicians’ Hurricane Relief Agencies
In the months after Hurricane Katrina, a number of plans to restore Louisiana’s rich cultural heritage were proposed. State Lieutenant-Governor Mitch Landrieu announced “Louisiana Rebirth: Restoring the Soul of America,” […]
Happy Anniversary
Tipitina’s celebrates its 29th anniversary January 11-14. Thursday night the Uptown music club presents “Horns and Hatchets,” a night of brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians. Friday night is “Wright […]
Done With Mirrors
While Timothea was the embodiment of living with Hepatitis C in New Orleans until she passed away in October, for many outside the Crescent City, Alejandro Escovedo is the disease’s […]
Growing Up in Many Ways
In the last few years, it has become a source of amusement that there’s nothing short about Trombone Shorty anymore. Troy Andrews has grown, made the trumpet his main instrument, […]
Chris Thile, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground (Sugar hill)
Reasons Why’s release accompanies the pop bluegrass trio’s announcement that it is going on “hiatus,” which many have taken as a euphemism for splitting up. Whatever the case, the […]
Honky Tonk Disciples, Kickin’ Up Dust (Independent)
The best honky-tonk music sounds like someone’s life boiled down to lines that are poetic in their simple precision. Very good honky-tonk simply evokes a working class life that […]
Pat McLaughlin, Horsefly (Creamstyle)
Pat McLaughlin makes soulful, country-inflected rock ’n’ roll sound so easy and natural that it seems like every city ought to have at least a few musicians like him […]
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, Hot As a Pistol, Keen As a Blade (Hip-O DVD)
By now, Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint’s The River in Reverse has been pretty thoroughly celebrated, most recently with a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album. We know […]
