Band
Off Beat Empire: Alternative Sites
Where would your B1G marching band want to go if they had to play a home game at a different venue?
Off Beat Empire: Giving Our Bands Props
The extras that can sometimes add a little something special
Off Beat Empire: Going Pro
Getting to know the NFL’s Marching Bands
Off Beat Empire: The Purple Canary
Are marching bands in serious decline, or is it just my alma mater?
Off Beat Empire: An All-American Swan Song
Celebrating a final season for Purdue’s Director, Jay Gephart
Off Beat Empire: More to Love!
Please make it stop...
Off Beat Empire: The Best Marching Band in the Big Ten is...
Awarding OTE’s Rusty Trombone award to this year’s best...
Off Beat Empire: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner (Washington)
Getting to know the University of Washington Husky Marching Band
Off Beat Empire: Getting to Know Oregon’s Marching Band
Getting to know the Big Ten Conference’s new feathered friends
Off Beat Empire: Getting to know an HBCU Band
Enjoying the sights and sounds of Howard University’s Showtime Marching Band
Off Beat Empire: Thank You Sir, May I Have Another
Discussing hazing in Big Ten Marching Bands
Off Beat Empire: Big Ten Marching Bands are BACK!
Getting reacquainted with your favorite Big Ten Marching Bands
Off Beat Empire: Crowning a Champ
I was going to say awarding the OTE Rusty Trombone Award, but I don’t think we want to be in that Google search...
Off Beat Empire: Thanksgiving and Marching Band
Want to really avoid travel hassles? Just stay home and play in the cold.
Off Beat Empire: Stringing Things Out
Who wouldn’t want to see violins in the snow?
Off Beat Empire: Going on Parade
Who wouldn’t want to go for an urban hike while wearing a costume and blowing into an instrument?
Off Beat Empire: Turning Your Back on Loyal Fans
Demand sound equality!
Off Beat Empire: Time to Rethink Uniforms?
Are hats and plumes really that necessary?
Off Beat Empire: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner, Part 2 (USC)
Helmets, sunglasses, and bare bottoms... oh my!
Off Beat Empire: Golden Anniversaries and Too Much Travolta
What is so special about 50 years?
Off Beat Empire: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner (UCLA)
We work hard regurgitating Wikipedia so you don’t have to
Off Beat Empire: This Time, It’s for Real (but not really)
We’re going to settle which B1G Band is best as only the internet can... through arbitrary logic, easily rigged polls, and memes.
Off Beat Empire: The Final Serenade 2021
Wrapping up the year in B1G Marching Band
Off Beat Empire: Should Big Ten Marching Bands Compete?
Let’s see if you really are the best damn band in the land.
Off Beat Empire: Where to Go on your Fall Vacation
Going to see the in-laws
Off Beat Empire: Rush Sucks, and Homecoming Bands...uh...Blow?
The last part’s not true. But our roundup of Big Ten marching bands has some feelings on whether you can ever really go back.
Off Beat Empire: That Moment of Knowing You Suck
Big Ten Marching Bands and dealing with disappointment
Off Beat Empire: Lost Traditions
Come here to share tales of the "good old days" and shake your fist at America’s youth
Off Beat Empire: Did Anything Happen Last Year?
Catching up with the Big Ten marching bands after an unprecedented 2020.
Off Beat Empire: The Final Stretch
Enduring UMass