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Keys to the City: OffBeat’s Top 40 CDs of 2009
This has been a resurgent year for New Orleans indie rock, which is as strong as it has been in a long time. Park the Van Records moved back to […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
Jay Farrar of Son Volt
“I’ve committed well spent days driving parts of Highway 61 from New Orleans to Minneapolis,” says Jay Farrar. He roars up “Afterglow 61” again on Okemah and the Melody of […]
Mark Mullins
The trombone, as composer Hector Berlioz once observed, can musically portray everything from “religious accent, calm and imposing…to wild clamors of the orgy.” New Orleans trombonist Mark Mullins seconds Berlioz’s […]
Mojo Mouth: It’s Time To Vote
It’s hard to believe another year is winding down. As usual we’re gearing up to publish our annual Louisiana Music Directory, which should hit the streets some time in November. […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
Fifteen Years of OffBeat: 1988-2002
A trip through OffBeat’s back pages, or as Louis Armstrong once sang: “All that meat and no potatoes!” For those readers with scant knowledge of New Orleans music and Louisiana […]
Letters August 2001
ERRONEOUS TIGERS This is a brief note regarding Jerry Brock’s article [Notes On New Orleans Brass Bands] in the July [2001] issue on the brass bands. There is a bit […]
