Posts Tagged ‘Memphis Music’
Memphis is a city loaded with musical history, and as a result, if you want to immerse yourself in our musical past, you’ve got plenty of options. There are musical landmarks all over the city, great record stores, and fantastic music-related museums and attractions. The thing is, in a city with so many options, [...]
(Ed. note – One of the things that I love the most about Memphis is the amazing local music. Because I’m only one person, I’ve enlisted the help of scene star and music fiend Rachel Hurley to fill you in on some of Memphis’s favorite musicians. With that, I’ll turn it over to Rachel .)
Amy [...]
Star and Micey are releasing their brand spankin’ new debut record at Neil’s on Saturday night. The record is being released by legendary local wonder label, Ardent.
Last weekend, two nice guys named Justin and Jared invaded my dining room with their recording equipment (that’s their laptop , mixer and ipod – the cupcakes and cheese straws are mine).
They were interviewing me for their awesome Memphis-centric podcast, Shut Up and Listen. We chatted about food, Indie Memphis, the swine flu song, the [...]
All day, I’ve seen people mention a rap song about swine flu on Twitter. The song was originally credited to Al Kapone (of “Hustle and Flow” and “$5 Cover” fame), but he posted to his Twitter this afternoon that the song is really by another Memphis rapper, Sir Vince.
The song isn’t really playing on the [...]
This weekend is Goner Fest, the store’s 6th annual weekend-long music festival. They bring in rock’n'roll from all of the country for four days of shows at venues all over town. There are too many bands playing the festival for me to list here, but I’m most excited about seeing Davila 666, Msr. Jeffery Evans, King Louie One Man Band, the Reatards (Jay Reatard’s band) and the River City Tanlines (one of my all-time local favorites).
Even though I knew it was coming, I still got all excited when I saw the picture of the new Big Star box set that Rachel posted on Twitter today.
Big Star is one of my all-time favorite Memphis bands. They started in Memphis in 1971 and broke up in 1974. They’re back together today (their [...]