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Photos of the Day: Bayou Country Superfest
[Updated] Tim McGraw topped a bill that included Sugarland, Trace Adkins and Luke Bryan on the first day of Bayou Country Superfest in Baton Rouge Saturday night. […]
Tab Benoit and Navy Band New Orleans Full Steam Brass Band at Wednesday at the Square: Photos
This week’s Wednesday at the Square concert featured guitarist and wetlands activist Tab Benoit in the headlining slot. The Navy Band New Orleans Full Steam Brass Band, made up of […]
YouTube du Jour: Jazz Fest 1982
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CeNoqNmcQ[/youtube] The June issue of OffBeat is out all over town now, and one of the highlights is our annual recap of Jazz Fest. In this video you can get […]
A Benefit for the Other PBS Tonight
The musical futures of George Porter, Jr., Russell Batiste, Jr., and Brian Stoltz may be safe, but their financial ones are cloudy. When Porter split from PBS, he set in […]
YouTube du Jour: The Rap Pack
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YazFGHe-nw[/youtube] In the tradition of local rap supergroups the Hot Boys or the 504 Boyz, a 2011 crew formed earlier this year from four New Orleans MCs who have met […]
YouTube du Jour: Tab Benoit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yda4LABO7Q[/youtube] Tonight, Tab Benoit plays Lafayette Square as part of the Wednesday at the Square happy hour concert series. Here’s footage of Benoit in the studio with Anders Osborne, Ivan […]
Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield in Billboard’s Top Ten
Last week, Basin Street Records announced that three of its 10 artists appeared in Billboard‘s jazz charts dated May 21, 2011: the Rebirth Brass Band, with Rebirth of New Orleans […]
Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo: Photos
Mid-City celebrated the summer this past weekend with the sixth annual Bayou Boogaloo festival along Bayou St. John. Highlights included Grupo Fantasma, the first out-of-town band to play the Boogaloo; […]
YouTube du Jour: Truth Universal
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQN8lR6Qtus[/youtube] Rapper Truth Universal returns with “Immigrant,” a song protesting Arizona’s SB 1070 and other similar anti-immigrant initiatives around the country. In his case, his opposition isn’t only theoretical or […]
Theresa Andersson in the Studio
Theresa Andersson is raising money for her upcoming album through Kickstarter, and it will be produced by Tobias Froberg (Peter Bjorn and John), who also produced Hummingbird, Go! One of the […]
