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05.22.06

VIDEO: Pearl Jam – Life Wasted Music Videos, Musique Non Stop | (0)
I was invited to post this with the caveat that I tell the story of how, on my 23rd birthday, I got shitfaced at the Tiki Lounge inside the now-closed Dog House in Seattle with Eddie, Jeff, The Smashing Pumpkins, my college friend Craig Wedren and his band Shudder To Think, and my friend Shaun. D'arcy and James were fighting. D'arcy would tell me her story first, then James would get up from his seat to tell me his side of things. I really didn't have a clue as to what to say because, truthfully, I didn't ...
05.22.06

Shotgun Symphonies From Greg Dulli & The Twilight Singers Leave Powder Burns Musique Non Stop | (0)
I've known Greg Dulli for almost 12 years now, and he's always been cool with me. I've watched him be the subject of intense ridicule, seen his music waiver between the uncontrollable strength and machismo of Afghan Whigs, to suffocating lows nobody should imagine, and the brustling sin-laden harmonies and highs of The Twilight Singers. See, Dulli is a soul man at his furnace, tossing log after log after lump of coal on the fire to stoke out these beautiful and horrible Motown-loving, Stax-blessing demons inside of himself. He has done all of this over the years ...
05.18.06

Guster Casts No Shadows With Ganging Up On The Sun Musique Non Stop, Ones To Watch | (6)
I don't think I ever officially "got into" Guster with everyone else. They've always been this band that I heard my friends liked but I never actually checked them out too in-depth. I remember putting a CD in a few years back and instantly being like "what the thell is this?" I'm not going to lie, I didn't get it and I guess I wanted to try and understand or get them for some reason, but they always went right past me. However, now that the band has decided to try Ganging Up On The Sun, ...
05.17.06

MANHATTAN: Free Show May 23rd @ 250 Greenwich w/Brazilian Girls, Lou Reed Musique Non Stop, On Tour | (0)
Just got an email from Tristan about this show, wish I could be in Manhattan to check this out -- Brazilian Girls, Citizen Cope, Ollabelle, Pharaoh's Daughter, Lou Reed, Ronan Tynan, Suzanne Vega, and Bill Ware Vibes. Now that's a lineup. Plus, it's in the afternoon so I get to miss work for it. What could be better? Tuesday, May 23, at noon. Downtown Manhattan. 7 World Trade Center (250 Greenwich).
05.17.06

Priestess Will Make You Bow Down Before Them With Hello Master Musique Non Stop, On Tour | (7)
When Montreal's Priestess blew through Memphis last month opening for Dinosaur, Jr., nobody knew what hit them. Four guys raised on rock and roll, but all with varying musical tastes, Priestess are individually and collectively masterful at tearing you a new asshole. This band is heavily studied, in-your-face old school rock 'n roll of the Deep Purple-Nazareth kind, and anyone who witnessed their performance walked away in disbelief of what they had just seen. They also (if they forgot their earplugs) were left bleeding from their ears -- in a word, Priestess is LOUD. Mikey, the lead singer/guitarist ...
05.17.06

Primal Scream Returns Full Force With Riot City Blues Musique Non Stop, Ones To Watch | (5)
Primal Scream is a band who has truly done it all through the years, constantly renewing and changing their style and sound with the times, experimenting with new sounds while influencing an armful of popular bands (Kasabian is a great recent example) and littering the musical world with their genius. One of the pre-eminent albums of the 1990's, Screamadelica was recorded right here in Memphis, paving the way for yet another wave of British invasion in music. With the release of Riot City Blues, Primal Scream have returned with another fresh and inventive take on rock 'n roll that ...
05.17.06

Midlake On Tour w/Flaming Lips In Europe | Video Live From Tivoli Gardens Music Videos, Musique Non Stop | (0)
Make sure and check out an interview with Erik and Tim from Midlake in Amsterdam by clicking here where they reveal the story of how the band came to be.
05.16.06

UPDATE: Antony And The Johnsons Multi-Tasking Towards The Future Music News, Musique Non Stop | (0)
In the wake of his Mercury Prize-winning I AM A BIRD NOW album, Antony of Antony And The Johnsons has been working on a multitude of collaborations, film projects and live events. He co-produced and performed on the new album by Little Annie called SONGS FROM THE COAL MINE CANARY (Durtro/Jnana). He contributed the song "Hole In My Soul" on David Tibet's NOT ALONE 5-CD benefit for Doctors Without Borders (Durtro/Jnana), and has recorded duets with Bryan Ferry and Kembra Pfahler for a new Hal Wilner-produced collection of sea shanties to be released later this year. He's also contributed vocals ...
05.16.06

SOUL RISING: Men-Nefer Embodies Soul Music On The Move Musique Non Stop, New Band Alert, Ones To Watch | (0)
If you know anything about me, you would know how much soul music means to me. Memphis is a city known for its deeply spiritual connection to the history of soul music. After all, this is the city where Stax/Volt Records was born and flourished, the home of dozens of highly respected soul music impresarios and a bevvy of gospel singers who have charmed audiences around the world for decades. How pleasing, then, to find a new generation of soul music coming to life here in the bluff city in the guise of Men-Nefer, the duo of ...
05.16.06

UNSIGNED AND GLOWING: David Condos Heads For Glory With Smoking City Hype Train!!, Musique Non Stop, Ones To Watch | (1)
I'm writing this fresh from listening repeatedly to this 4-song sampler of Nashville's David Condos stunning soon-to-be-released album Smoking City. The 21-year-old multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter exudes star quality, and the infinitely listenable first single from his album, entitled "I Should Be Lost Without You", ought to be screaming from radios and iPods everywhere quite soon. Normally, I'm not even a fan of this kind of music. I just hear too much of it. However, David rises so far above the cut that I would have felt like I had done a great injustice to overlook something this ...