Entertainment
OffBeat Magazine
Five Questions With Nathan Williams Of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
Five Questions With Nathan Williams Of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
2 min |
June 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Five Questions With Meschiya Lake On Her Move To Cork, Ireland
Five Questions With Meschiya Lake On Her Move To Cork, Ireland
2 min |
June 2018
OffBeat Magazine
D.L. Menard (1932 – 2017)
D.L. Menard (1932 – 2017)
4 min |
September 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Gold Standard
Saffron NOLA brings upscale Indian cuisine to Magazine Street.
4 min |
September 2017
OffBeat Magazine
A View From Lubbock
The poetic songwriting of alt-country pioneer Joe Ely.
7 min |
September 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Derek Trucks talks back
Derek Trucks talks back
10 min |
September 2017
OffBeat Magazine
The Little Drummer Boy Grows Up?
Cowboy Mouth’s Fred LeBlanc celebrates being alive.
10+ min |
December 2016
OffBeat Magazine
Send Him A Friend
Anders Osborne’s road to sobriety.
9 min |
December 2016
OffBeat Magazine
Lyrical Longevity
Partners-N-Crime: 25 years of bouncing beyond expectations.
5 min |
April 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Not A Reunion, A Revival
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ love letter to New Orleans.
4 min |
April 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Taking Care Of New Orleans R&B
Al “Lil’ Fats” Jackson pays tribute to Fats Domino.
4 min |
April 2018
OffBeat Magazine
From Underdog To Lone Wolf At Large
Alfred Banks at the forefront.
4 min |
April 2018
OffBeat Magazine
The Beat Goes On
Louie Fontaine brings his music and his machine to the former Handsome Willy’s.
3 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018
OffBeat Magazine
With Bells On
Meschiya Lake remembers Sweet Emma Barrett.
5 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Jazz Foundations
Don Vappie brings to life the music of early New Orleans jazz pioneer Joe “King” Oliver.
4 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Calas Tout Chaud!
Loretta Harrison of Loretta’s Authentic Pralines brings back rice calas at Jazz Fest.
3 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Papa Grows Funk history explored
Do U Want It?
2 min |
December 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Five Questions With Singer-Songwriter Jake Bugg
In early 2012, then eighteen-year-old Jake Bugg released his first United Kingdom hit, the folky, buoyant “Lightning Bolt.”
2 min |
December 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Seasonal Affective Disorder
A Louisiana Christmas with Loose Cattle
4 min |
December 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Sam Perez/Piscobar
(at the Catahoula Hotel)
2 min |
December 2017
OffBeat Magazine
George Clinton Talks Back
From doo-wop to the P-Funk Mothership, George Clinton has led his funky voyage through the musical universe and beyond.
7 min |
December 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Charles Neville 1938-2018
Saxophonist Charles Neville—forever known to fans as “Charlie, the horn man”—was the secret ingredient in the Neville Brothers’ mix, the brother whose jazz instincts took them to another level. Neville, who died last month of pancreatic cancer at age 79, was also a link to the fabled days of the Dew Drop Inn, where he began performing in the ’50s.
3 min |
May 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Traversing The Map
The Soul Rebels trombonist Corey “Passport P” Peyton raps with global ambition.
4 min |
May 2018
OffBeat Magazine
300 Songs For 300 Years
Keyboardists
7 min |
May 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Tony Hall Talks Back
Bassist, guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter Tony Hall’s myriad accomplishments include co-founding Dumpstaphunk. The deep-grooving funk-jazz-soul quintet came together in 2003 for an Ivan Neville appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
8 min |
May 2018
OffBeat Magazine
Margot Denman/N7
“I made a cocktail for Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington because when I first moved to New Orleans I got a job at Boucherie uptown and one of my regulars was Hank Staples of the Maple Leaf—such a sweet man. He’d come to the bar and have dinner and write his name on a paper napkin and we’d call them ‘hankies’ [laughs].
2 min |
May 2018
OffBeat Magazine
William Evans/Maypop
William Evans/Maypop
2 min |
November 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Tour Of The Americas
The Rolling Stones launch in Baton Rouge
7 min |
November 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Changing Of The Guard
Adonis Rose takes over the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
4 min |
November 2017
OffBeat Magazine
Tipitina's Celebrates 40 Years
"Every time we played there it was like church."
4 min |