History is mostly silent to us now. Thousands of years of human stories have been told in paintings, and sculptures, and sheet music, and text; in shards and shells, and other fragments of things left ...

Our lives are full of sounds. The rumble of car engines, a particular birdsong, the ‘ding’ of phone alerts, even the voices of our friends and family — these everyday noises become so regular we don’t ...

With a setting Sun, a dead King, a reformed Killer, and empty Stax, Memphis has spent the past few decades coasting on the fumes of its musical reputation. After making the world suffer through ...

Memphis no-wave band Lost Sounds is back — in a sense, at least. Sweet Knives, a group featuring three-fourths of the group's lineup — guitarist/keyboardist Alicja Trout, drummer Rich Crook and ...

Lost Lost gives the impression of a new band struggling to capture inspiration on tape-- to secure a sound, an identity, a mission. If they sounded almost cocksure on their albums, behind the scenes ...

Two years ago, you couldn’t turn a corner without running into a garage-rock band. Any group that came close to a “garage” description jumped on the bandwagon, but while those bands fell after the fad ...