Three years later, the remnants of Johnny Jones’ last Memphis team are still chasing the dream; Veteran leaders are emerging as the Grizzlies continue to struggle
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Short Cuts
One By One Foo Fighters (RCA) Until a few months ago, I still felt sort of wrong for respecting, following, or even acknowledging the continuing existence of Dave Grohl. Like many others who were initially pleased by the birth of “alternative” music with the release of Nevermind, some deep, primal part of me still considered […]
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Sound Advice
Chances are pretty good that you won’t be seeing New Orleans legends the Funky Meters around these parts anytime soon due to Art Neville’s inability to tour, but you can come pretty darn close when three of the group’s key members, George Porter, David Russell Batiste, and Brian Stoltz, play the Young Avenue Deli on […]
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City Sports
Pau Gasol transformed the Grizzlies — and himself — against the Wizards;The U of M gets back into the win column.
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Dying in Stereo Northern State (Northern State Records) If Mike Skinner (aka the Streets) has been universally christened “the British Eminem,” then the indie hip-hop crew Northern State –three liberal-arts-schooled white women in their mid-20s who go by the monikers Guinea Love, DJ Sprout, and Hesta Prynn (!) –can’t help but be seen as “the […]
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Sound Advice
The Dillingers were a short-lived local bar band that tore up a few Memphis clubs a couple of years ago with a sound more akin to the Uncle Tupelo alt-country standard than, say, their friends and competitors Lucero’s more punk and indie-rock take on the genre. The barely-legal-aged motley crew was led by big-voiced singer/guitarist/songwriter […]
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Moore and More
Bowling for Columbine is populist rabblerouser Michael Moore’s third documentary feature and possibly his best. It is less focused and less sure of itself than Roger & Me, which tracked the damage done to one town by one company, and The Big One, a particularly self-aggrandizing “concert film” about a Moore book tour that doubled […]
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Sound Advice
The latest installment of the Jazz Foundation of Memphis’ World Class Jazz Series brings renowned pianist Cyrus Chestnut to the New Daisy Theatre Saturday, November 23rd, for two sets, one at 7 p.m. and one at 9:30 p.m. Originally from Baltimore, the 39-year-old Chestnut worked behind artists such as Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard before […]
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City Sports
A quartet of discrete observations after two games of Hubie Ball; Some local round-ballers show their true colors.
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Medium Well
As pop-star romans à clef go, the Eminem vehicle 8 Mile sure beats anything Elvis ever did. It’s even better than Purple Rain (which, as a Prince-fanatic grade-schooler, I must have seen in the theater at least half a dozen times). In fact, the only film of its kind that’s more satisfying and interesting is […]
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Jerusalem Steve Earle (Artemis/E-Squared) Even in the beginning, back when he fooled people into believing he could compete with Clint Black and Dwight Yoakam on country radio, Steve Earle was a professional leftist rabble-rouser with lines like “I was born in the land of plenty/Now there ain’t enough” poking out of the highway honky-tonk on […]
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Sound Advice
A couple of weeks after Jeff Tweedy hit town, his better half in the seminal Uncle Tupelo, the bourbon-voiced alt-country icon Jay Farrar arrives in Memphis. In truth, Farrar has seemed a little lost since the dissolution of his post-Tupelo band, Son Volt, his thesaurus-inspired lyrics drifting off in the same winds he once promised […]