February 2024
Cover Story
- The Spirit of Fi Yi Yi: Victor Harris, Sr. hits the streets for the last time
“For me, it's a blessing,” declares Victor Harris on having his “given spiritual cultural anatomy” revealed to him as the Spirit… - February 2024 Larger Cover Image
The Cover Club offers an OffBeat cover of your choice printed on canvas so you can hang your favorite OffBeat Magazine covers on the walls…
BackTalk
- Yo La Tengo’s James McNew Talks Back
A shining, surviving example of 1980s indie-rock, the New Jersey-spawned Yo La Tengo is 40 years into its continuously creative existence—singer…
Features
- Zulu Coconuts: Jon Cleary Goes to the Mardi Gras
On Twelfth Night, Grammy-winning Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen released “Zulu Coconuts,” a new Mardi Gras song. We sat… - Carnival Tales: Musicians Tell Their Favorite Mardi Gras Stories
With Carnival season approaching, we’ve once again asked some musicians to tell us their favorite Carnival tales and Mardi Gras stories,… - Mamie Desdunes: The teenage girl who helped create the New Orleans sound
The great pianist Jelly Roll Morton who popularized jazz, claimed to have been the inventor of it. He would have been…
Fresh
- Best of the Beat 2023 Award Winners
Best of the Beat 2023 OffBeat’s 2023 Best of The Beat Music Awards™ took place on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at Tipitina’s. The… - The 100th anniversary of Slim Harpo: Baton Rouge’s most successful blues recording artist
This year is the 100th anniversary year of Slim Harpo’s birth. Although 1924 is the agreed-upon year of his birth, the… - Vintage Vinyl Treasures (Episode 35)
This month’s installment of Vintage Vinyl Treasures (Episode 35) highlights five artists who each gave us a great tune or two…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: Bywater Bakery
Bywater Bakery has been serving tasty treats and a savory breakfast since 2017. Owners Chaya Conrad and Alton Osborne are cranking…
Obituaries
- Jo-El Sonnier (1946-2024)
Grammy Award-winning Cajun and country artist Jo-El Sonnier passed away at the age of 77. Sonnier suffered a fatal heart attack…
Reviews
- Donald Harrison: The Art of Passion (Ropeadope Records)
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Donald Harrison, who was recently voted as New Orleans’ top saxophonist in OffBeat Magazine's… - 504icygrl & PoppyH: Rollin’ With The Krewe (EP) (Krewe Records)
Rollin’ With The Krewe is dropping just in time for Carnival season. The new EP from rap power couple 504icygrl and… - Travis Matte: Sound of the 1960’s Cajun Dance Halls (Mhat Productions)
The 1960s had to be an exciting time for Cajun music. Even though it hadn’t reached hipster status yet, its dancehalls… - Dylan Aucoin and The Judice Ramblers: Dylan Aucoin and the Judice Ramblers (Swallow Records)
It must be an exciting time for Cajun music with all the emerging young guns carrying the cultural banner forward. Count… - Adam Deitch Quartet: Roll the Tape (Golden Wolf Records)
Adam Deitch writes in his liner notes, “I’d like to thank all the drummers who have albums under their own names.… - Tom Andes: Those LA Nights (Independent)
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Tom Andes attracted attention two years ago with the release of his debut EP Static on Every Station…
