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YouTube du Jour: Curren$y Back in New Orleans on Tour
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxUeKPNqvM[/youtube] Tonight, rapper Curren$y makes a stop at home on the Smoker’s Club Tour he’s currently headlining, along with tourmates Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, Mac Miller. The tour, sponsored by […]
Treme Videos on iTunes Now
Music videos from HBO’s Treme are now on sale at iTunes. There are six videos of performances from the show including songs by Kermit Ruffins, John Mooney with the Soul […]
Lil Wayne’s Hot and Solitary
Last week, Lil Wayne released the digital-only I Am Not a Human Being straight to iTunes, where it shot to number one. The album of tracks recorded before he went […]
YouTube du Jour: Peelander-Z
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69KItD3n-w4&feature=channel[/youtube] Japanese comic-book/wrestling pop-punk band Peelander-Z returns to One Eyed Jacks tonight. Here’s a hint of things to come – a video of the song “S.T.E.A.K.”
YouTube du Jour: Kristin Diable
Tonight, Kristin Diable, Alex McMurray and Amy Speace from Boston launch the New Orleans Speakeasy Songwriter Revue at Three Muses at 7 p.m. Here’s Diable at d.b.a. singing “Be My […]
Canal Street Gets the Postmamboist Treatment
“Postmamboism” is a word you’re probably not familiar with. For writer and historian Ned Sublette, it’s a way of looking at the world. “It’s a term that I made up […]
Voodoo Schedule Announced, Tickets at CVS
The Voodoo Experience has released its schedule, and Muse, Weezer, Hot Chip and Galactic close out Friday, October 29 of the festival at City Park. On Saturday, Ozzy Osbourne, Street […]
Gretna Heritage Festival Begins Today
The annual Gretna Heritage Festival starts today and continues through Sunday. Tex-Mex roots rockers Los Lobos are among an array of national acts to join a wide-ranging roster of locals […]
YouTube du Jour: Baby Boyz Brass Band
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN8V8a69pc8[/youtube] In the cover story of our October 2010 issue of OffBeat, Rosalie Cohn profiles a few of the rising stars in the new generation of New Orleans brass bands: the […]
Robert Randolph
On the cover of his latest album We Walk This Road, Robert Randolph seems to be healing his instrument by laying on hands. That instrument, the pedal steel or—in the […]
