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11/03/21

Live this month // November 2021 playlist

We want to make it easy for you to discover something new, so each month we’ll be putting together a Spotify mix of some of the artists playing live around Memphis in the next few weeks. Press play whenever and press pause when you hear something you love – you’ll be able to see them…

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11/01/21

Fresh Fall Sounds: Five Memphis Albums We Love Right Now

By: Ezra Wheeler Blueboys “Something Wicked” For their debut album “Something Wicked,” the hip-hop trio Blueboys nod at Ray Bradbury’s classic horror novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” which tells the story of a mysterious and ghastly traveling carnival. From the opening track “In the End,” it becomes immediately clear why they chose this title…

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10/28/21

Spooky Season Sounds: Live picks for Halloween

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…

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10/25/21

Tommy Wright III on “Devil’s Night” at Black Lodge

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…

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10/22/21

Music at the Movies: A Conversation with John Miller of IndieMemphis

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…

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10/19/21

Guest picks: Boo Mitchell recommends

This week we’ve got a live music recommendation from someone whose picks you definitely want to trust: GRAMMY-winning engineer and co-owner of Royal Studios Boo Mitchell! When he’s not spending a late night in the studio, you can find Boo popping up at shows all over the city – and this week, we know exactly…

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10/18/21

Preview: Don Bryant at Crosstown Theatre

When F. Scott Fitzgerald famously stated that “there are no second acts in American lives,” he had clearly never met anyone quite like Don Bryant, the soul music legend who has staged one of the most remarkable late-career comebacks in recent memory. On Friday night, Mr. Bryant will be showcasing his “living legend” bona fides…

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10/18/21

Guest picks: Amanda Dent recommends

By: Amanda Dent I have an embarrassing confession. I’ve never seen Don Bryant perform live. In case ya didn’t know, Bryant was a seminal figure – albeit behind the scenes as a songwriter (mostly) – at Hi Records in the 60s and 70s. Most notably, he co-wrote the classic “I Can’t Stand the Rain” with…

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