What else? The Grand Opening itself of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, climaxing a week of pure resurrection in Soulsville. 8:30 a.m., 926 E. McLemore Avenue.
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Revisit that summer of 1972 and the epochal music film “Wattstax”as the Stax resurrection and official homecoming continues. 8 p.m. at the Orpheum, and there’ll be a concert add-on from some of the luminaries involved. (Yes, they can still boogie. Oh, can they!)
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Pig Lib Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (Matador) Stephen Malkmus thinks he’s so clever. The former Pavement frontman titled his 2001 solo debut eponymously and packaged it with photos of himself looking contemplative in a tropical setting, knowingly echoing the self-indulgence of so many solo debuts both famous (Paul Simon) and forgotten (Roger Daltrey). Stephen […]
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Like so many Nashville artists who don’t dent the country charts, Kim Richey is more folk-rock than country, her tasteful, rootsy sound and sharp, smart songwriting having more in common with the likes of John Hiatt, Rosanne Cash, or labelmate Lucinda Williams than with anything you’ll hear on mainstream country radio. Though not as tormented […]
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I remember reading somewhere that Texas-based singer-songwriter and guitar player Chris Whitley didn’t consider himself a singer-songwriter or guitar player. He said he thought of himself as an “expressionist.” I think it was then and there that I decided to actively dislike Chris Whitley. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do since he makes gorgeously […]
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Filmed in state-of-the-art Imax 3-D, Ghosts of the Abyss chronicles director James Cameron and his 2001 return to the ship Titanic, four years after winning a basketful of Oscars and zillions of dollars from the 1997 mega-blockbuster film Titanic. He has taken Bill Paxton with him, who serves as a kind of Everyman narrator, blankly […]
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Sing into Me Neilson Hubbard (Parasol Records) From Garrison Starr to Easley-McCain Recording Studio, this Mid-Southerner has plenty of Memphis connections. But on his third solo album, Neilson Hubbard doesn’t stray far from his Mississippi roots. Recorded at various Oxford locales and mixed at Sweet Tea Studio, Sing into Me neatly bridges the gap between […]
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Elephant The White Stripes (V2) White Blood Cells, the quaint, charming little masterpiece that broke this cult band big, was something of an unintentional concept album about the compatibility of classic rock and sexual decency, milking the sonics of Led Zeppelin and early Rolling Stones but filtering this sound through a very post-punk ethic: male […]
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Returning to Memphis after opening for India.Arie last year at The Orpheum, the English duo Floetry will perform at Isaac Hayes’ Peabody Place restaurant Tuesday, April 15th, in a refreshing infusion of contemporary R&B into the city’s club scene. The duo of Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart first formed in London as a songwriting team […]
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Radio-rock, anyone? The Grammy-nominated Tonic will be kicking off an “acoustic tour” this week. How very 1990s retro they are. This better-than-average alt-rock outfit (whatever that may mean these days) is known for their tightness and for having fun on stage, so don’t be surprised if they squeeze a tight cover of “Jessie’s Girl” in […]