A best of DVD compilation from years 2 and 3 of the Makeshift Music co-produced concert/festival benefiting the Church Health Center.  The film features exclusive live performances from Snowglobe, The Magic Kids, John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives, River City Tanlines, Antenna Shoes, Al Kapone, Lord T and Eloise, The Coach and Four, J.D. Reager, Two Way Radio, Jason Freeman, Jeffrey... read more

The latest LP from the indie/experimental Memphis group.  Very weird and fun.  Released by BAA Music Group. Tracklist: 1. The Latest Headlines From The Most Important News 2. Young Smiles No Teeth 3. It’s A Beauty 4. They 5. Movie Night 6. It’s Entertainment 7. Tunica 8. America 9. Lizzy’s Internet Dream 10. Pop It Right Now 11. Just Busted 12. I Don’t Read 13.... read more

Although not as well known as his peers (Roy Harper, John Marytn, and Bert Jansch), the name Michael Chapman is an important one in the linage of English folk rock guitarists and singer/songwriters of the late 60’s/early 70’s. Chapman’s 1970 Fully Qualified Survivor can be filled between Roy Harper’s Flat Baroque and Berserk, John Martyn’s Inside Out, and Bert Jansch’s Jack Orion... read more

A nearly forgotten classic, Lou Bond’s eponymous 1974 album was originally released on We Produce, a subsidiary of the legendary Stax label. It is an album that evokes a feeling of change, one very much a product of its era. A collection of songs filled with images from a chaotic time, touching on a range of topics from civil rights to social injustice to the Vietnam War. Bond’s... read more

It’s one of the lost classics of the ‘60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez – was, for many years, lost too. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working as a menial day laborer in Detroit, Michigan. He was unaware that... read more

Tracing the lineage and citing the fore-bearers of the New Weird America, one can’t help but mention the music of bizarre folk singer/guitarist/artist Michael Hurley. If you haven’t been following his career since the 1970’s (when he was collaborating with the likes of the Holy Modal Rounders and Jesse Colin Young) then you probably discovered him in the past couple of years via... read more

Here it is – Los Dug Dug’s self titled debut (also known as “Lost in My World”): the “must have” first album (1971) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band, recorded after their failed trip to NYC did not produce the stardom they had been promised—pain and disappointment sparking great song-writing on this, the first Mexican psych album in English. Tracklist: 1. Lost in... read more

More rockin’ tunes from back in the day – 16 tasty morsels in all! Tracklist: 1. The Breakers “Don’t Send Me No Flowers” 2. Ole Miss Downbeats “Geraldine” 3. The Shades “Shady Lady” 4. The Percussions “Your Love” 5. The Merits “Please, Please Little Girl” 6. The Scepters “Little Girls Were Made To Love” 7. The Chasers “I Need Your Lovin” 8. The Ponees... read more

This cd contains 15 unforgettable gems from the golden era of Memphis music.  Liner notes from garage rock authority Eric Friedl of Wipeout! and Goner Records’ fame round out this excellent slice of Memphis history when the Beatle boots met the soul of the South in garages all over Memphis! Tracklist 1. Flash and the Casuals “Uptight, Tonight” 2. LeSabres “Rising Mercury... read more

Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Strapping Fieldhands have to be one of the finest, most enigmatic American bands to arrive on the continent since Syd Barrett & company moved to Athens in the early ’80s. The easy-on-the-ear pop hits “Ben Franklin Airbath”, “the Oath,” & “the Author in Her Ear” put the Fieldhands in a league of... read more

Robby Grant strikes again with another batch of off-kilter pop gems! Highlights include “Naked As a Jaybird” featuring ex-Clear Shelby Bryant, “I’m Your In”, and “Your Black Eye”. Track listing: I’m Your In It’s Not the Things You Want Tell Them All Naked as a Jaybird You Don’t Need It Let The People Sing/The Computer Thing Moments Tune Your Black Eye I Don’t Think Why ... read more

Aching Big Star-informed Memphis pop from wunderkid Paul Taylor on Makeshift label! Taylor played with the Dickinson brothers in DDT before they went onto North Mississippi All-Stars jam band fame, and was perennially the best bass player in Memphis since he was 13 or so. So he took up drums. He’s all over Shelby Bryant’s great Cloud Wow Music, and this has some of the same... read more

Having played together since high school, the members of snowglobe have a unique ability create complex songs with a rich pallet of sounds in a seemingly nonchalant way. The Memphis based band continues the long lasting tradition of playing honest music for the “right reasons”. “The sheer wealth of instruments the band uses creates moments as jam packed as rush hour. Principal... read more

Memphis’s Snowglobe plays an entrancing blend of cosmic American music that owes as much to pioneering psychedelic country/pop legends like the Byrds and Gram Parsons as it does to modern-day fellow travelers like the Flaming Lips. Having played together since high school, the members of snowglobe have a unique ability create complex songs with a rich pallet of sounds in a seemingly... read more