G.G. Allin

Listening to "Paper Bag," the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers The Chandails' forthcoming EP, it's easy to imagine a good-for-nothing street gang, maybe the "cholos performing satanic rituals while eating pozolé " described on the band's Web site. Read More

When it comes to the history of alternative music and culture in Memphis, all roads lead to the fabled Antenna Club, a grimy black hole of a bar once situated on the northwest corner of Madison and Avalon, between a pawn shop and a dentist's office that was also — most conveniently — a leasing office for inexpensive Midtown rental properties. Read More

I was only 7 when I lifted $5 from my mother's purse and bought the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." A thrashing followed when I was found out, but I still think it was a wise way to use a purloined Lincoln. Read More