100: The 100 Essential Lousiana CDs Part 2

100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 1

100: Essential Feedback

Get Your Essential Louisiana Music Here… New Direction at Tip’s… Borders and Wherehouse Walk Into the Crescent City… offBeat Events

This is so cool… this month we’re previewing a feature that anyone who’s interested in Louisiana music will appreciate (and I’m presuming if you’re reading this, you’re one of that […]

Which songs say
New Orleans best?

OffBeat’s 30th birthday is in 2018! And to celebrate, in conjunction with the New Orleans Tricentennial Celebration—the Crescent City’s year-long celebration of its 300th birthday—OffBeat wants input from our readers […]

The BEAT Goes On: A 25 Year Retrospective of OffBeat Magazine

OffBeat Magazine, the foremost authority on Louisiana music and one of the world’s longest-running jazz and roots music publications, celebrates its 25th anniversary with this issue. Here, we give a […]

Six for Switzerland

“The Ascona Festival is about New Orleans,” says Don Vappie. He will be performing alongside a host of international talent at the upcoming New Orleans Jazz Festival in Ascona, Switzerland […]

All in a Generation’s Work

I never thought I’d still be cranking out OffBeat after an entire generation. I thought that I would have completed my work by now, that is, I thought that the […]

Letters October 1999

TEAR DOWN THE CATHEDRAL It seems that after nearly two hundred years of squabbling about musicians interrupting church services at St. Louis Cathedral and disturbing the peace of residents around […]

Letters August 1999

Bad Joke? You can’t be serious about “jail time for musicians,” right? This is a joke, yes? I’m writing from Florida; have been coming to New Orleans for 40 years. […]