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Tag Archives: memphis
Speaking of Punk Rock and River Cities…
Memphis and music are synonymous, yes. But for many people, Memphis means motown and Stax or Elvis and Sun. About three decades ago, another sound—rawer and ruder—began to fester in the noxious, sun-blanched fumes of the Mississippi. And a dive … Continue reading
Posted in letters from below, mississippi rocks, sights, sounds
Tagged CBGB's, crustcore, elvis, goner records, jackson, jay grumpy, jay reatard, memphis, memphis music, memphis punk, ming donkey, mission of burma, mississippi music, mississippi state university, motown, panther burns, punk, starkville, stax, suicidal tendencies, sun, the grumpies, the lost sounds, the minutemen, the oblivians, the overnight lows, the reigning sound, true sons of thunder
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Party Dots, Ghosthand, Useless Eaters: a play by play
So Saturday I rode down to Jackson with Ghosthand, some garage-rockabilly guys out of Columbus, Mississippi…although really, they should be called Black Black Evil Eye (maybe Ming Donkey is working on this?) We were riding in Bryan’s van–no seatbelts, no … Continue reading
Posted in mississippi rocks, sights, sounds
Tagged mississippi, the grumpies, ming donkey, punk, recess records, columbus, starkville, jay reatard, memphis, black belles, jackson, goner records, useless eaters, overnight lows, documentary photography, nan goldin, mississippi music, hal & mals, toronto, mississippi state universtiy, san pedro punk, hit songs
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“Tell him what we said about Paint it Black”
Thanks for the tapes, and for the tapes of all the bands you influenced. You did well, Alex Chilton… From Citypages.com: “Without Chilton no Jayhawks/REM/Mats/Huskers/db’s/Rain Parade/Game Theory/Posies/Teenage Fanclub,” wrote Twin Cities musician and producer Ed Ackerson. “The mind reels… Not … Continue reading
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Tagged music, memphis, alex chilton, the replacements, SXSW, big star, hit songs
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Greely Myatt Takes On Memphis
In mid-September, Greely Myatt was the focus of a citywide, 8-venue exhibit celebrating his twenty years of service teaching sculpture at the University of Memphis. More recently Myatt exhibited at Mississippi State University, a school he briefly attended on athletic … Continue reading
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Tagged art, folk art, memphis, mississippi, mississippi state university, quilting, sculpture, the south, university of memphis
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So I updated the Picasa site…
Which is to say, really, I backdated it, posting a lot of stuff from 2005. I’ll try to get around to the rest of the backlog eventually. All of these photos were taken with my first ever digital camera, a … Continue reading
Posted in sights
Tagged katrina, memphis, mississippi, new orleans, photos, pictures
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