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OffBeat Magazine is the definitive guide to Louisiana & New Orleans music, featuring news, album reviews, artist interviews, concert listings, and more.
December 2024 - OffBeat Magazine
Features. Christmas Without Tears: A conversation with Harry Shearer and Judith Owen Welsh multi-potentialite and quadruple-threat performer Judith Owen sits next to her husband, Harry Shearer, as she brings up the concept of…
November 2024 - OffBeat Magazine
BackTalk. David Shaw Talks Back David Shaw, singer and songwriter with the Revivalists, reached national fame with the New Orleans band’s 2015 single, “Wish I Knew…
December 2023 - OffBeat Magazine
Cover Story. Reclaiming Roots: Loose Cattle took 10 years, two cities and one pandemic to lock into place The New Orleans band’s earliest roots are in New York City where the two principals—Kimberly Kaye and Michael Cerveris—got together to…
Online News Archive - OffBeat Magazine
Dec 24, 2024 · The New Orleans Recreation Development (NORD) Commission today announced that the FitNOLA Spring Season Kickoff and Health Expo will take place on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to […]
OffBeat Weekly Picks (October 24-30) - OffBeat Magazine
Oct 22, 2024 · On Sunday, October 27, the Nickel-A-Dance series continues with a free performance by Herlin Riley & the Jazz Hounds at Favela Chic.Running from 4 to 7 p.m., this event invites attendees to dance along to the lively tunes of one of New Orleans’ jazz greats as part of the city’s NOLA Music Month.
February 2024 - OffBeat Magazine
Cover Story. The Spirit of Fi Yi Yi: Victor Harris, Sr. hits the streets for the last time “For me, it's a blessing,” declares Victor Harris on having his “given spiritual cultural anatomy” revealed to him as the Spirit…
All in a Generation's Work - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat sprung from a crazy idea of mine that the musicians and music community in New Orleans and throughout the state was underappreciated and undervalued. When OffBeat started, there wasn’t a full-time music writer working at our local daily newspaper. Listings of music in local clubs weren’t a big part of any local publication. The …
Weekly Picks (December 5 – 11) - OffBeat Magazine
Dec 4, 2024 · Kermit’s 60th Birthday Party Tuesday, December 5, House of Blues Celebrate OffBeat Magazine’s cover artist, the incomparable Kermit Ruffins, as he rings in his 60th birthday with a grand bash at the House of Blues.Kermit will be joined by his band, the BBQ Swingers, TBC Brass Band and a host of special guests.
About OffBeat Magazine
John Swenson started writing about popular music in 1967. He joined OffBeat‘s staff in 1999 before editing the award-winning website jazze.com for Knit Media, then returned to OffBeat in 2005. He has worked as an editor at Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Circus and Rock World and was a syndicated music columnist for more than 20 years at United Press International and Reuters.
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