About OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat was the definitive guide to New Orleans and Louisiana’s music, arts, culture and cuisine from August 1988 through December 2025. OffBeat Magazine was printed monthly through March 2020 (pre-COVID) and featured news, reviews, interviews and profiles from the streets of the Crescent City and across the Bayou State. Beginning in 1988, OffBeat Magazine was distributed free across the metro-New Orleans area and available nationally and internationally via subscription. OffBeat’s media family also includes the Weekly Beat e-Newsletter, OffBeat.com and OffBeat’s social media outlets on Facebook, X and Instagram (@OffBeatMagazine). OffBeat is also the media sponsor of the annual Best of The Beat Awards.
If you have a New Orleans or Louisiana music, culture, or food story you’d like us to cover, please send a thoughtfully written, detailed pitch.
For OffBeat.com or social media: please send pitches to Jan Ramsey ([email protected]).
To include your event, festival or performance in our online and print listings, please send all information to: [email protected]
To have your music reviewed in our magazine, please contact Joseph Irrera ([email protected]).
