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The Raconteurs: From Studio to Storesnew
The marketing of Consolers of the Lonely, the second album from Jack White's side project the Raconteurs, threatens to overshadow the music.
The Memphis Flyer |
Stephen Deusner |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Be Your Own Pet Refuse to Grow Up and That's Goodnew
The group's second album sounds like a promise that even though she's no longer a teenager, we can still expect the Muppet-punk brattiness that animated the band's eponymous 2006 debut, which was known to blister paint at high volumes.
The Memphis Flyer |
Stephen Deusner |
04-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Be Your Own Pet, get awkward
Stax Sings Motownnew
Stax vs. Motown is, of course, one of the past century's great cultural rivalries, up there with Yankees/Red Sox or Beatles/Stones.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
03-31-2008 |
Reviews
Iron Mic Collective Creates a New Memphis Soundnew
Iron Mic's vitality comes in representing a considerable, mostly silent slice of the city's African-American hip-hop audience: people who don't relate to Three 6 Mafia or Project Pat or Yo Gotti and never thought there'd be Memphis-bred hip-hop for them.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
03-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jill Scott: Neo-soul's Deserving Standard-bearernew
Philly soulster and Roots protegee Jill Scott has become the scene's true standard-bearer. She's the genre's reigning poet laureate -- a strong, precise lyricist in a genre without many.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
03-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jill Scott, The Real Thing
Utopian Societynew
The Simple Ones and a couple of ex-Grifters help Shangri-La Records celebrate 20 years.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Davis |
03-21-2008 |
Music
Memphis Does Austinnew
At this year's South By Southwest Festival, Memphis musicians made a splash.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
03-21-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Grave Mattersnew
"I came to Memphis to find musicians' gravesites, including James Carr's," Steve Suskie says. He visited New Park Cemetery to pay Carr his respects, but the manager told Suskie that Carr had no gravestone.
The Memphis Flyer |
Preston Lauterbach |
03-21-2008 |
Music
Memphis at SXSWnew
Memphis musicians have been a growing presence at Austin's annual South by Southwest Music Festival, but the Memphis presence at SXSW will be bigger than ever.
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
03-07-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Crippled Nation Grows Upnew
The band changed its name to Streetside Symphony, which fits its current sound.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Streetside Symphony, The Curse
Capturing Chaosnew
The North Mississippi Allstars get back to basics.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Davis |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Repeat Performancenew
The Memphis-based Folk Alliance settles in with its second consecutive hometown conference.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-15-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: Folk Alliance, concerts
'Field Manual' Doesn't Live Up to the Controversynew
Despite the customs dust up and seizure of his hard drive, Chris Walla's social and political indictments are hardly harsh.
The Memphis Flyer |
Stephen Deusner |
02-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Walla, Field Manual
A Rocking Returnnew
Tennessee hard-rockers Egypt Central fell through the major-label rabbit hole and lived to tell about it.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Egypt Central
Downhome Boy, Updatednew
Country star Brad Paisley is a Maxim and Field & Stream kind of guy.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
