OffBeat’s annual Best of the Beat Music Awards started nearly 30 years ago, in 1996. OffBeat founder and publisher Jan Ramsey decided that our musicians and music businesses deserved an awards event ...

OffBeat’s 2023 Best of The Beat Music Awards™ took place on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at Tipitina’s. The Best of The Beat Awards™ is a program of the OffBeat Music & Cultural Arts Foundation and was ...

Michael Jackson‘s “Beat It” proved that the King of Pop could be the King of Rock when he wanted to be. While “Beat It” has an iconic music video, it isn’t Jackson’s best rock tune. It might not even ...

Imagine Dragons didn’t rise to global prominence by accident; their ascent was built on a catalogue of songs that fused arena ...

To call the monthly Beats, Rhymes and Life open mic shows at Hendershot's one of the best-kept secrets in the Athens music scene would be to ignore the fact that it has attracted a huge audience every ...

Oliver Schusser might have one of Apple’s most wide-reaching titles, as VP of Apple Music, Apple TV+, Sports, and Beats. In a new interview, Schusser covers a lot of ground, especially focusing on ...

“You have 20 years to write your first album,” Elvis Costello once said, “and you have six months to write your second one.” But the best second albums shrug off that pressure with abundant flair.