Invoke Arto Lindsay (Righteous Babe) If you consider the pleasures to be found among the numberless strains, variations, and sub-genres of “American music,” it’s hard to look at the term “world music” without a raised eyebrow. For a genre that allegedly covers every other kind of music outside of the United States (but usually ignores […]
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Impressions
Remember the scariest scene in E.T.? I don’t mean at the end when the government shows up and wants to take E.T. away or the part where the brother finds E.T. all sick and pale by the creek. I mean the suspenseful moment at the very beginning, before the Reeses Pieces exchange, where young Elliot […]
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Short Cuts
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Flaming Lips (Warner Bros.) “Do you realize that happiness will make you cry?” Wayne Coyne asks on “Do You Realize??,” the first single from the Flaming Lips’ new album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It’s a typical Lips line, simple on the surface but complex, literally mixing happiness and […]
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Sound Advice
I know it’s the beginning of Elvis Week, but if you want to bask in some classic musical Americana of a different stripe, the Live At the Garden Summer Concert Series is offering one of its finest shows this week. New Orleans hipster/piano man Dr. John, who inherited the Crescent City piano tradition from the […]
Posted inBook Features, Books
Exit the King?
On August 16th, it’s 25 years since you know who did you know what, and to observe (or is it cash in on?) the death of Elvis Aron (or is it Aaron?) Presley, the books keep coming, because the public keeps buying, because the publishers keep publishing. This month on the fiction front: John Paxson […]
Posted inNews, The Fly-By
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Make of this one — which appeared mysteriously Monday on the south side of Stage Road, just west of Covington Pike — what you will. It went up four days after the Shelby County mayor’s race was over, three months after the mayoral primaries, and five months after Bartlett banker Harold Byrd, at the time […]
Posted inNews, The Fly-By
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Make of this one — which appeared mysteriously Monday on the south side of Stage Road, just west of Covington Pike — what you will. It went up four days after the Shelby County mayor’s race was over, three months after the mayoral primaries, and five months after Bartlett banker Harold Byrd, at the time […]
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Short Cuts
Heathen David Bowie (ISO/Columbia) David Bowie hasn’t sounded quite like this in over 20 years. On Heathen, his new album, it’s not that he’s revisiting his old sounds and styles, as the hype has it, but he does more closely resemble the artist as a young man, his creations purer and less tempered by trends […]
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sound Advice
Wow. A lot going on this week. Aside from The Down From the Mountain Tour‘s stop at the DeSoto Civic Center (see Music Feature, page 37), the best touring-act bets are a couple of shows at the Hi-Tone Café. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Josh Rouse produces gentle, literate songs superior to similar artists such as Ron Sexsmith […]
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Big Trouble
K-19: The Widowmaker starts off a lot like another good-ship-gone-wrong film of recent memory: Titanic. Much like the infamous luxury liner whose name has become synonymous with disaster, the Russian nuclear submarine K-19 was supposed to be the biggest and the best. K-19, like Titanic, starts off obviously but appropriately foreshadowing why the voyage is […]
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Short Cuts
By the Way The Red Hot Chili Peppers (Warner Bros.) The Red Hot Chili Peppers occupy a strange place in popular music: Springing from a scene most famous for its ’70s SoCal lite-rock and ’80s El-Lay hair bands, the Peppers blend the former’s peaceful, easy feelings with the latter’s party vibe. But Anthony Kiedis’ staccato-rap […]
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sound Advice
Well, for starters, you can celebrate the return of local singer-songwriter Rob Jungklas with the CD-release party for his new MADJACK release Arkadelphia (see Local Record Roundup, page 33) on Saturday, July 27th, at the Hunt-Phelan Home. The house opens at 8 p.m., showtime at 9 p.m. Then there’s another return of sorts as legendary […]