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Toussaint, NOJO and Blanchard Nominated for Grammys
Wednesday night, the nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards were announced in Los Angeles, and while the big story of the night for much of the music world was Beyoncé […]
YouTube du Jour: Man-Made Disaster
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28jPUWDX_bA[/youtube]In this month’s Backtalk, Harry Shearer talks about the media’s poor post-Katrina coverage, and on its unwillingness to focus on the ill-made and maintained levees as the cause of flooding. […]
Show Preview: Cursive at One Eyed Jacks
Tim Kasher won’t say he’s the brains behind the operation, but his band Cursive does tend to bend to his whims as his personal outlet. Cursive plays One Eyed Jacks […]
Mayfield Kicks Off Cathedral Concert Series Tonight
The Christmas season unofficially begins tonight at 6 p.m. in true New Orleans style — with Irvin Mayfield performing at the St. Louis Cathedral. Mayfield will be heralding the start […]
YouTube du Jour: HAMP Fest
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1ipD-Akyw[/youtube]Tonight at the Howlin’ Wolf, World AIDS Day will be celebrated with HAMP – the HIV Awareness Music Project. Festivities start early – 6 p.m. – and performers include Trombone […]
New Orleans in the News
Derrick Tabb, founder of the Roots of Music program and Rebirth Brass Band snare drummer, was honored at the third-annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” at the Kodak Theatre in […]
John Prine
John Prine is one of those master singer-songwriters whose biggest hits were for other people—“Angel of Montgomery” for Bonnie Raitt and “You Never Call Me By My Name” for David […]
Christmas Concerts
In this month’s cover story, we highlight just a handful of the Christmas concerts that take place in New Orleans in December. There are more than we can list here, […]
A Brand New “Who Dat”
[Updated 12/1] This year’s Saints have prompted a number of artists to record their own Saints song, so Carlo Nuccio – who wrote and recorded the original “Who Dat” more […]
YouTube du Jour: Bob Dylan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k[/youtube]OffBeat starts the holiday season the right way. The only thing more perplexing than Bob Dylan’s Christmas album – Christmas in the Heart – is his video for “Must Be […]
