By Zachary Corsa Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year for many red-blooded Americans, but, for the rest of us, it’s Halloween that has us shivering in otherworldly joy. As the weather cools and the leaves tumble down, as skies go gray and the rich smell of burning fields begins to curl […]
By: Zachary Corsa November’s just around the bend, and thus goes the last lingering warmth of summer and all those uneaten bags of candy pumpkins. Before long, the leaves will be littering the ground and we’ll be bundled up indoors, sipping cider and dreading the encroaching holiday season. Luckily, there’s plenty of killer live music […]
By: Ezra Wheeler Beginning in the early 1990s, Memphis has been at the epicenter of a subgenre now commonly known as “horrorcore,” a downright terrifying brand of hip-hop that is marked by its lo-fi sound, wickedly profane lyrics, triple time flows, and samples pulled directly from horror movie scores. From that crop of early horrorcore […]
From the We Are Memphis Music team, here’s a mix of live music picks we think you can’t afford to miss out on this week. Turnover/Widowspeak/Temple Of Angels 7 p.m., Thursday October 28, Growler’s $22 TICKETS It’s the spookiest week of the year, but if all this decadent and chilling indulgence in darkness have left […]
By: Zachary Corsa From the earliest days of cinema, music has enjoyed a close symbiotic relationship with the filmic arts, and it’s no surprise to find that many (if not most) musicians are also film buffs, their favorite movies a necessary companion to the usual piles of dusty LPs and frayed paperback classics. In a […]
