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Choices Preview
Friday night, Terence Blanchard plays the Taylor Library at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He recorded his new album, Choices, there this spring. Blanchard premiered music from Choices […]
Jimbeaux’s Update
Yesterday we received the following email from Rocky, one of the partners in Jimbeaux’s on Frenchmen (formerly the Spotted Cat): friends, romans & countrymen, please forgive me but please discontinue […]
The Quarter: Past and Present
I have a lot of issues with the invocation of tradition and history where the French Quarter is concerned because I suspect much of what people believe isn’t historically accurate. Or […]
What Makes Voodoo Producers Swallow Their Gum
This press release from Jane’s Addiction was reported in the L.A. Times: Jane’s Addiction’s management has confirmed that percussionist Stephen Perkins has been admitted to the Infectious Disease Ward […]
The Case of Now v. Then
This afternoon, I interviewed Ari Up from British first-generation punk band the Slits. OffBeat.com will run some of that interview later this year when the band’s new album, Trapped Animal, […]
We Take Two
UPDATE: Tuesday, July 21. The New Orleans Press Club Awards took place Saturday night at the Harrah’s Hotel, and OffBeat took home two awards. John Swenson won for Best […]
Return to Twitteration
Last week, I mentioned Twitter 101, an introduction to all things Twitter at Loyola. I now feel semi-hosed and apologize to anyone who got involved with this through me and […]
A Note to Local Funk Bands
Coming up with song and album titles that play on the close relationship between the words “funk” and “fuck” is funny for seconds and really, only witty on a […]
The Days of Writing Past
Our own John Swenson was name-checked recently in this interview with B-movie critic Joe Kane, which paints an entertaining picture of the arts-writing community in New York in the 1970s: […]
An Idle Monday Morning Question
Is it just my imagination, or has the city seemed musically adrift this year? I’ve been excited by a lot of music from the past few years, but this […]
