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Local rapper Skewby redefines the genre.
By Chris Herrington |
June 1, 2010
For years, The Source magazine — essentially the Rolling Stone of the hip-hop world — has run a column highlighting an emerging, unsigned hip-hop artist generating buzz in the industry. Dubbed "Unsigned Hype," the now-famous column has provided the first exposure for many of the genre's stars, including the likes of Eminem, the Notorious B.I.G., and Mos Def.
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The irony is only in the title.
By Chris Herrington |
April 1, 2010
"When you're out drinking on your own, heartaches from the past feel overblown," Memphis songwriter Harlan T. Bobo croons on "Sweet Life," the lead song on his third album, Sucker, set to be released by the local Goner Records label on April 16th. Bobo might be referencing his now-classic debut album, Too Much Love, with those lines — or, more likely, the life experiences that spurred that album.
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A debut album from three local artists recalls the glory of jug bands.
By Chris Herrington |
March 1, 2010
Memphis calls itself "The Home of the Blues and the Birthplace of Rock-and-Roll." But the blues wandered up from Mississippi and rock-and-roll came later.
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A new four-disk compilation stives to capture the best of the King
By Chris Herrington |
February 1, 2010
How do you put together a four-disc introduction to Elvis Presley? Ask my advice, and I'd probably tell you to seek out four separate but almost equally vital discs: Start with The Sun Sessions, which compiles all the essential music (and then some) that Presley recorded in Memphis with Sam Phillips to launch his career.
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As a vibrant decade in Memphis music comes to an end, a look back via one critic's choices for the 10 best Memphis music albums of the past 10 years.
By Chris Herrington |
January 1, 2010
Too Much Love — Harlan T. Bobo (Goner, 2005): At the time a sideman in the Midtown band Viva L'American Death Ray Music, Bobo shocked the Memphis scene with this solo debut, first self-released in rare copies in personally handcrafted packages before local label Goner gave it a proper release. Too Much Love is an accessible but unnervingly intimate collection of songs tracking one delicate but troubled romance.
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After a five-year hiatus, The Reigning Sound returns with bandleader Greg Cartwright's inimitable mix of pop, rock, and folk.
By Chris Herrington |
December 1, 2009
Greg Cartwright formed three modern-classic Memphis bands — The Compulsive Gamblers, The Oblivians, and The Reigning Sound — before relocating to Asheville, North Carolina, six years ago. Lately, he's spent more time in his hometown playing with the technically defunct Gamblers and Oblivians than his current band, which has been on a quasi-hiatus in the years between 2004's Too Much Guitar and the band's new Love and Curses.
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Memphis musician Charlie Wood on the UK, new records, and whether you can come home again.
By Chris Herrington |
October 1, 2009
On his 2005 album Somethin' Else, Memphis organ master Charlie Wood delivered a sardonic, knowing paean to his hometown, pledging fidelity but with a comic caveat: "This is where I'm from/And it's where I'll stay/My heart and soul's in Memphis.
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A young Memphis band grows up, switches gears, and sounds off.
By Chris Herrington |
September 1, 2009
"Magic Wand," the first song on Attack!, the debut album from the young Memphis band the Bulletproof Vests, leaps out of the speakers on a nimble classic-rock guitar riff and cools down with a splash of soulful organ, all serving as foundation for an identifiably Southern vocal. It sounds more than a little like the Band's "The Shape I'm In."
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