Offbeat
OffBeat is a monthly music magazine in New Orleans, Louisiana first published in 1988. It mainly focuses on the music scene of New Orleans and Louisiana, the region's culture and its cuisine.
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Louis Armstrong: Navigating the Swamp of Louis Armstrong Releases
Discography by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 August 2001
ONE OF the happiest side effects of the Louis Armstrong centennial celebration is the reconfiguration of this master musician's catalog. For many years, much of ...
Charles Bradley is off Script at Jazz Fest
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Offbeat, 1 May 2014
ON THE FIRST Saturday of Jazz Fest 2013, Charles Bradley strode out on the Blues Tent stage as if he weren't 65 years old but ...
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 May 2000
ON AN UNSEASONABLY warm December afternoon, Wardell Quezergue walks carefully into the Musicians Union meeting hall on Esplanade Avenue. ...
Dr. John Comes Clean: Kicking Dope & Taking Names
Interview by John Sinclair, Offbeat, 1994
John Sinclair: First things first: everybody wants to know who did your hair for the record cover of Television? ...
Aretha Franklin, King Curtis: Aretha Franklin/King Curtis: Live at the Filmore West
Review by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 August 2006
THIS IS Aretha Franklin at her absolute peak, fronting a supercharged band led by King Curtis and featuring the Memphis Horns with special guests Ray ...
The Holmes Brothers, Joan Osborne: Fest Focus: Holmes Brothers
Interview by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 May 2003
NOT ALL THE gospel music at Jazz Fest takes place in the Gospel Tent, a fact that will be brought home with great spirit by ...
Little Feat: Rooster Rag (Rounder)
Review by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 August 2012
THE HISTORY BOOKS say that when guitarist Paul Barrere, bassist Kenny Gradney and percussionist Sam Clayton joined Little Feat for the band's third album, Dixie ...
Retrospective and Interview by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 May 2005
"A lot of people don't know who the Meters are, but they sure know the songs." – Leo Nocentelli ...
Interview by Richard North, Offbeat, December 1988
Psychic TV have flirted with religious and anti – religious imagery through their growth time, they set up the Temple Of Psychick Youth and, more ...
Irma Thomas: Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Irma Thomas
Retrospective and Interview by John Swenson, Offbeat, January 2006
IN 1960, ALLEN Toussaint and Irma Thomas showed up to audition at WYLD studio in New Orleans for Joe Banashak and Larry McKinley of Minit ...
Johnny Thunders: An American In Sweden
Report and Interview by Richard North, Offbeat, April 1989
SO, WHY did I wait around half a day for a three-minute interview with Johnny Thunders? ...
James "Blood" Ulmer: James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues
Interview by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 November 2003
THE SEPTEMBER release of James Blood Ulmer’s No Escape From the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions is a milestone event in this centennial Year of ...
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