| | | CARNIVAL TIME! |  | | Bhangra funkers Red Baraat will play throughout Mardi Gras weekend and day. |
Happy Mardi Gras weekend! From parades to pole greasing, Iris to Orpheus, bounce and brass to Backstreet, we've got you covered during these most quintessential of New Orleans days. Click here for a look at what's to come and check out some memories of Carnival past by way of local musicians and community figures. That's not all: We've got a preview of the seasonal mashup of Brooklyn-based Bhangra funkers Red Baraat and the Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra. A very happy and healthy Mardi Gras to you and yours! |
| | The past week on OffBeat.com:  | Royal Southern Brotherhood were among the musical highlights of an epic January.
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* Beads and beats: Check the new Carnival-ready mix from DJ Quickie Mart and Galactic's Ben Ellman, aka Gypsyphonic Disko. * Outta This World: The Krewe de Lune will hold its Fifth Annual Space Ball Friday, February 8 -- Click here for a shot at a pair of passes. |
| OFFBEAT SHOW PICKS  | | Old 97s at Tipitina's on Thursday. |
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| NEWS YOU CAN USE |  | | New Orleans native Frank Ocean: odds-on favorite at the Grammys.. |
WIN TICKETS TO SEE THE GASLAMP KILLER TONIGHT! We've got 3 pairs of tickets to give away to Red Bull's Thre3Style University throwdown featuring the Gaslamp Killer at Ampersand tonight. To win, email the answer to the following question to info@offbeat.com: What was the name of the Gaslamp Killer's 2012 album? Winners will be notified by 5pm. CONGRATS TO GRAMMY NOMINEES MODERN JAZZ SERIES COMES OUT SWINGIN' The Prime Example Jazz Club and WWOZ present "Thursday Night Swingin'," a new, live concert series for modern jazz in New Orleans. Current OffBeat cover subject Davell Crawford will perform at the first show, February 7. Future talent includes Delfeayo Marsalis (Feb. 14), Shannon Powell (Feb. 21) and Herlin Riley (Feb. 28). WWOZ's Soul Sister is your host for sets starting at 7 and 9 p.m. Cover is $15. BAYOU COUNTRY SUPERFEST ADDITION Aaron Lewis will join the previously announced talent set to play Memorial Day Weekend's 2013 Bayou Country Superfest. Lewis joins Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, The Band Perry, Thompson Square, Rodney Atkins and Frankie Ballard for the fourth annual event, taking place May 25-26 at LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. (Love & Theft, previously scheduled to perform, will not appear.) TICKETING NEWS Single-day tickets (in addition to full weekend and VIP packages) for this year's BUKU Music + Art Project, set for March 8-9, are now available. Click here for a day-by-day rundown of acts. Folks at the 15th Annual Voodoo Experience are offering a Valentine's Day deal. Between February 4-14, passes are available at $150 for three-day General Admission and $400 for three-day Loa VIP; prices will increase as the Halloween weekend event (November 1-3) nears. Camping packages are also available, and anyone who purchases tickets during the Voodoo Valentine promotion is eligible to win an upgrade to the Loa Grand campgrounds. Get your tickets now for a special Valentine's Day concert with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, who will perform the music of Duke Ellington and jazz ballads led by conductor Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown at the New Orleans Mint Performing Arts Center. |
| MOJO MOUTH - HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!
| As opinionated as ever, Publisher Jan Ramsey "mouths off" about music and current events in New Orleans and thereabouts. Happy Mardi Gras to all!  | OffBeat Publisher
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Smoking Time Jazz Club In this week's episode of OffBeat's Look-Ka Py Py Podcast, the Smoking Time Jazz Club's bassist John Joyce and clarinetist Jimbino Vegan discuss the making of their latest album Oh Sister Ain't That Hot!, their post-modern approach to traditional jazz, and why, for them, there's no substitue for swinging in the street.
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Bruce Daigrepont The title of Bruce Daigrepont's new album Jamais de la Vie refers to a Cajun expression meaning "never before in [my] life." Tune in to hear Bruce tell the unbelievable story that brought him and his accordion together with famed Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen in Denmark for its recording.
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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will be celebrating Mardi Gras in New York City at the Marquee. The Marquee hosted the first ever live performance by the Rolling Stones on July 12, 1962 in London. The New York location is at 289 10th Ave. |
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