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Best of the Beat Award Winners:
Complete List
OffBeat’s Best of The Beat Awards was created to honor local musicians for their contributions to New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture. The Best of The Beat Awards also […]
The End of an Era
[Updated] This weekend, the Mother-in-Law Lounge is closing for the last time. As Antoinette K-Doe’s daughter, Betty Fox, wrote: Hello everyone first I would like to thank all of the […]
Another Two Quickies
With the Best of the Beat upon us, it’s hard to think about anything else today, but if there are a couple of events this weekend that I don’t want […]
Always Beating
Vote for YOUR favorites here: https://www.offbeat.com/bob09 Who’s the Artist of the Year? Veterans BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, whose Alligator Purse underlined BeauSoleil’s place in the Americana conversation, or Allen Toussaint, […]
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 […]
Alex McMurray, How to Be A Cannonball (Threadhead)
Alex McMurray’s long awaited new album, How to Be a Cannonball, could be the record that gives him the recognition as being one of the best songwriters working today. Every […]
May 2009 Letters
IS R&B DEAD? You asked if New Orleans R&B is dead [Weekly Beat March 26]. I don’t think it is—at least as long as the great New Orleans drummers keep […]
Cyril Neville
In the days after Katrina, Cyril Neville hit every button possible. During “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy” benefit concert, he wore a handmade T-shirt that read, “Ethnic […]
The Religion of Art
When New Orleans Saints fallen warrior Ricky Williams chills in his Kenner crib, the chilling is elevated by the hip-hop murals adorning the walls, as created by Miami artist David […]
