"I want to be the Patti Smith of now, with something like 'Rock 'n' Roll Nigger' blaring out of kids' speakers. I fantasize about that, but I'm not going to be that. I'm just not that dangerous," Bradford Cox told me in an interview for The Big Takeover back in 2008.
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Welcome to this week's installment of The Week In Music Writing.
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The bar scene at Ohio University, where I was finishing up my freshman year this time 10 years ago, is a heavy-handed metaphor.
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Over the past few years, we've heard an R&B and soul music revival bubbling up from within everything from electronic to rock - and on the psychedelic end of that revival comes Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
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Because I'm a modern man, and the modern man only reads articles on the internet which reinforce his narrow ways of thinking, I've been able to avoid John Roderick's Seattle Weekly piece, Punk Rock is Bullshit, for the better part of a week.
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Plenty of rock bands evoke a sense of geography or place, whether the industrial grit of urban compression or the lush texture of something pastoral.
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Prod me, pour a few beers in me and I'll tell you the problem with pop and the problem with electronic music with even less grace than either of these men.
Read MoreSomewhere in Memphis, unbeknownst to the world, a digital recorder with a set of beautiful pop songs collected dust for about four years.
Read MoreA recap of recent music news because I'm a maker, damnit, and I don't have time to read and re-tweet every piece of music news during the week.
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Music tends to be so culturally tangled with art, poetry and politics as to allow pretty much anyone to claim anything for the racket they cook up.
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Iconic pop punk band talk about Researching the Blues — the band's first new album in 15 years.
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Let me tell you about the time I almost made Jay Reatard kick my ass.
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1) I listened to the Ramones, 2) I listened to a steady stream of albums from In the Red and Burger Records.
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Nearly 40 years on from their initial, unceremonious flameout, the Stooges have been thoroughly absorbed and accepted into the pop-cultural mainstream in ways that would've seemed nigh unimaginable in the early 1970s.
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The most intriguing thing about Jim Barrett and Steven Ross of ILLLS is that they just don't give a fuck—in a good way.
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Much like Jay Reatard stepping away from the Reatards, Andrew Anderson of the Hipshakes' solo work is stripped down to bare bones.
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For those unfamiliar with the experience it is sort of like a one night stand for music enthusiasts; you pretty must spark up conversation about various albums and festivals you have enjoyed and then go your separate ways.
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Even if you don't recognize the name Kyle Thomas, you may know some of his associations.
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Formed in 2009, punk supergroup OFF! was founded by Black Flag and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris and Burning Brides' Dimitri Coats as an outlet for songs they'd written for an ill-fated Circle Jerks reunion album (which Coats had been hired to produce).
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Today's music scene of mutated and fractured genres has delivered us a treasure trove of sonic wonder, yet there's something absent from it.
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Jesse Smith, of Gentleman Jesse , was walking through an Atlanta parking lot when he spotted a group of teenagers struggling to swap out a flat tire.
Read MoreThis intimate portrait, captured just months before his untimely passing, brings us incredibly close to Jay's complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Hey, so I'm Evan , and since this is a new thing, let me take a minute to explain what this column is and why it exists.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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Back in the day, the Sex Pistols and the Ramones may have been mostly harmless, but each band did as best as it could to at least affect an air of menace.
Read MoreOver the past few years, only a few-yet-strong crew has been able to penetrate the Memphis music scene, then make it out of the city on a name of their own.
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"When you play music and you're a person on a stage, sometimes people can put you on a pedestal, and that can do a lot of things to your head. And... what if it actually exploded all over the walls during a show?"
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Bradford Cox's mercurial nature is becoming a rewarding end unto itself.
Read MoreIndie Memphis' 14th Annual Film Festival opens this Thursday, November 3!
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Last year, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson asked the King Khan & BBQ Show to join their curated Vivid Live festival in Sydney alongside Tuvan throat singers, Reed's Metal Machine Trio, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Read MoreMy dad says that all music is derivative.
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Hanni El Khatib appeared, seemingly from nowhere but actually from the world of San Francisco skateboarding, last year.
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Douglas Martin originally had "triumphant return" in the headline.
Read MoreWe caught up with Man / Miracle after their Sound Situations taping at Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh, NC during Hopscotch Music Festival.
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The first record that really blew my mind was a dusty single of Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music.
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The best show I have seen this year took place at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, California (Silver Lake and Echo Park area).
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"Since the unfortunate passing of Jay Reatard, there has been a void in the hearts of scumfucks everywhere. Enter Cy Barkley, a man straddling the line between garage and punk with a black Gibson in hand. Rock Together showcases a more accessible side of Cy Barkley and the Way Outsiders' dirty punk music that could put a wistful tear in Keith Morris' eye. "When you say you don't know, please tell me, I'll follow you," Barkley shouts over glammy riffs, pounding bass and unrelenting drums in "Rock Together", the EP's Single. The four track 7" is surely not the height of what this band could be - or will be - but this album marks the beginning of an era for Cy Barkley and the Way Outsiders as they expand beyond Nashville's city limits." [ Get Bent ] Jeff The Brotherhood did in fact play Matchless last night (8/22) with their friends/collaborators/city-mates/label-mates Cy Barkley & The Wayoutsiders.
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