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THE UNITED STATES Rockers’ name alone was a wholly accurate gauge of the sound and aesthetics. A relatively obscure trio located in Memphis, TN, the group was led by Durand Easley, an achieved producer and program musician. While taking in inside a Mississippi roadhouse in 1986, Easley installed with Sam …

As drummer for the renowned early ’70s pop group Big Superstar, Jody Stephens possesses a glimmering popularity among pop aficionados. Much less defensive regarding the tale of Big Superstar than business lead vocalist and songwriter Alex Chilton, Stephens is becoming somewhat of the ambassador to those who find themselves thinking …

It could seem surprising to people that only learned from the Detroit garage area rock revival once the Light Stripes’ “Fell deeply in love with a woman” hit mainstream radio in 2002, however the neighborhood guitar music group picture has lasted longer enough that we now have now second- and …

The quintessential American power pop music group, Big Superstar remains perhaps one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in every of rock & roll. Originally led with the performing and songwriting duo of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, the Memphis-based group fused the most powerful components of the …

The master of the raw and shambolic fusion of rockabilly, blues, and fractured noise, Tav Falco was, combined with the Cramps, among the earliest purveyors of what would become referred to as psychobilly (though his version from the sound lacked the campy horror movie ambience others taken to it), and …

Cotillon may be the music pseudonym of Jordan Corso, a vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist whose music is a low-key but appealing fusion of indie rock and roll, psychedelia, surf electric guitar, and pop from various eras, all filtered through Corso’s oblique but engaging lyrical sensibilities (Corso phone calls the end …

Playing noisy, art-damaged punk rock and roll with garage-rock hooks and an extraordinary quantity of both smarts and snot, self-described “thug pop” group Pampers certainly are a four-piece respond from Brooklyn, NY offering Carl Cirone on guitar, keyboards, and vocals, John Kramer on guitar, Jordan Lovelace (ex-Black Centipede) on bass …

Best known while the guitarist and vocalist using the psych-influenced, defiantly Southern hard rock-band Deceased Confederate, Georgia-born T. Hardy Morris (also billed occasionally as Hardy Morris) in addition has produced a name for himself like a single artist so that as a gifted collaborator dealing with many side projects. Shaped …

Through the early ’80s, guitarist/vocalist Chris Stamey and keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Peter Holsapple led the dB’s, among the leading jangle-pop bands from the American pop underground. Stamey remaining the group in 1983, but Holsapple led the music group until its last recording, 1987’s The Audio of Music. Four years following the dB’s …

Long an essential portion of Memphis’ vibrant 21st century music scene, multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Taylor has constantly followed his personal feeling of direction. The child of the Memphis musician and studio room engineer, Taylor spent his young years dangling with additional second-generation Memphis music artists, playing gigs by enough …