The Interesting Narrative of the Promising Career of Bob Frank and John Murry, Two Southern Musicians; as Collected and Compiled from a Variety of Documents and Tales. Memphis, Tennessee native Bob Frank’s story is legend: as a young man he worked as a songwriter for Tree Publishing in Nashville and shared the stage with Tim [...]

On Chuck Prophet and the inadvertent Evangeline release of Dreaming Waylon’s Dreams…. Waylon, Are You Pissed? Why We Did What We Did To Waylon Jennings (God Rest His Soul). No Shit. On Friday, January 5th we were all at Closer Recording Studios on Howard Street in San Francisco. Mr. Chuck Prophet and Stephanie Finch were [...]

Hi Electric Enigmas are easy to come by these days. Pseudo-sensitive art-as-rock bands dripping irony from their records like blood from their teeth. So I suppose that, in reality, the enigmatic is found in the band that refuses to be an enigma. Memphis, Tennessee has been repeatedly stabbing itself in the back and refusing to [...]

When Heidi Fleiss was spotted on “Celebrity Rehab” wearing a Morlocks tee shirt, it was a full 25 years after one of its founding members, Jeff Lucas, had released his first EP with that garage band. That was back in the days when he still lived in Southern California, stole his guitarist’s girlfriend, and suffered [...]

The way to beat fundamentalism is to find yourself interred at a fundamentalist drug rehabilitation facility for eighteen months as a teenager. “I was only on pills for half as long,” says John Murry about the pharmaceutical speed he was given as a “slow” student at his Mississippi high school. “They gave me the pills [...]

Kira Lynn Cain’s is the music of dreams. Soundtracks to her self-imagined movies. Images of sparse western landscapes, hallucinatory and romantic places, understated violence and suspense, mystery, and strange melancholy, all sway through lullaby-like surrealist torch music. The sacred becomes the profane and the profane sacred. In describing her, as Kira would herself, bay area [...]

Andy Grooms has no biography. He isn’t definable. Nor is he separate from those who know him or his work. He isn’t definable because Andy Grooms writes much as the great Werner Herzog directs and narrates: he takes the outward landscapes of life and proves that they are, in truth, our own personal monologues and [...]