The passing of Chicago-born jazz/folk guitarist and songwriter Terry Callier on 27 October at the age of 67 left a hole in the soul of those whom his music touched. Continue Reading...
Memphis has a strangely disjointed music scene these days, or at least as it seems to me -- but I am a native Memphian and a relative outsider at times, even in my own town. But in spite of this, Memphis has seen me through, as John Roderick once told me, "many incarnations of my id". In this one, I've discovered Fast Planet, and I could not be more impressed.
From the fallout of a band I long-championed & at times begged to come back known as This Is Goodbye (they did come back briefly last year), the performers ...
The Weeknd has been in the studio banging out new tracks because, well, when you're currently one of the hottest tickets on the planet at present, why wouldn't you? Drake might have made the song "Trust Issues" famous, but Abel Tesfaye turns this song out by placing his deliberate, uncompromising voice into the mix. Continue Reading...
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