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Enter to Win Tickets to Maceo Parker at Tipitina’s
Pioneering funk and soul saxophonist Maceo Parker will headline Tipitina’s on Friday, October 21. He will take the stage following an opening set from Fantastic Negrito. Tickets for the show […]
Photos: Taj Mahal, Cedric Burnside Highlight Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival
Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival brought two days and three nights of great music and delicious food to New Orleans’ Lafayette Square over the weekend. Guitar legend Taj Mahal […]
Oak Street Po-Boy Festival Announces Food Menu
32 different vendors will offer over 50 different po-boys between them when Oak Street Po-Boy Festival returns to—you guessed it—Oak Street on Sunday, October 22. Festival organizers have unveiled their […]
Photos: Elvis Costello at The Saenger Theatre
Elvis Costello swung through New Orleans for a marathon set at the Saenger Theatre on Saturday night. The rocker dug deep into his catalog for the show, which featured material […]
New Orleans Saints Song of the Week: Henry Mancini, “The Pink Panther Theme”
The Saints didn’t even have a game last week and they still managed to rise to 3rd place in the NFC South standings. How did that happen? Because the Carolina […]
Hell Yes Fest Headliner Sarah Silverman on New Orleans, Getting Political
The 11-day Hell Yes Fest will close out with quite the bang on Sunday when comedy titan Sarah Silverman takes the stage at the Saenger Theatre. Over 20 years after […]
Album Premiere: ROAR, “La-Di-Da”
Blissfully eclectic rock duo ROAR are premiering their debut album, La-Di-Da, via OffBeat today. Comprised of trombonist/vocalist Carly Meyers and drummer Adam Gertner (well, when you get down to it, […]
Big Sam’s Trombone Stolen in Las Vegas
Big Sam’s Funky Nation had a number of their instruments stolen in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. Big Sam’s signature trombone was among the items that were taken when the […]
Photos: New Orleans Film Festival Kicks Off with a Second Line
The 2016 New Orleans Film Festival kicked off yesterday with a screening of LBJ at the Orpheum Theater. Directed by Rob Reiner, the new Lyndon Johnson biopic stars Woody Harrelson as […]
Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here’s What He Wrote About New Orleans
Bob Dylan, the influential singer-songwriter who was declared the voice of a generation on too many occasions to count, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation […]
