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My Better Angels
Last night, we got the word the Rebirth’s Phil Frazier will return to performance Saturday, January 31 when Rebirth plays the Howlin’ Wolf. It will be his first performance […]
Be Sweet
Last night, I spent much of the evening reading Bob Gendron’s Gentlemen, the newest entry in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series, this one on the Afghan Whigs’ 1993 classic. The […]
This is Tom Jones
At Tom Jones’ show at the House of Blues Tuesday night, a bartender said security didn’t work as hard as they did that night when working heavy metal shows. They […]
The Last Record Man
“I hope you don’t take this the wrong way,” I stammered to the tall, robust-looking gentleman I was waiting on at La Crepe Nanou Restaurant, “but I didn’t know any […]
The Fleshtones Sunday night
I’ve seen my share of scary Fleshtones shows. In the 1990s, the garage rock band didn’t seem to deal very well with an audience that was getting real jobs having […]
Turning 30
The Radiators are about to celebrate their 30th year as a band, but that’s not about to slow them down. The Rads are hitting the road again this winter and […]
George Porter, Jr.: My World and Welcome to It
“How many hours have you spent on stage?” The question slows George Porter, Jr. down. Sitting at his living room table, he leans forward on his hands and thinks about […]
Happy Holidays
The OffBeat staff—myself, Joseph Irrera, Alex Rawls, Craig Guillot, Elena Reeves, Eric Broad, Sarah Lockwood and Richard Giraldi—wishes you all a very happy and blessed holiday season. Thank you all […]
The Best of the Beat
In 1996, OffBeat’s very first Best of the Beat Awards recognized the best in Louisiana music for 1995. The awards show, held at House of Blues, wasn’t called the “Best […]
Almost Everybody…
OffBeat started “Backtalk,” its monthly Q&A in January 1996, when Michael Tisserand interviewed BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet with brothers Sid and Nathan Williams—the former, the proprietor of El-Sid-O’s; the latter, the […]
