Aspirations of a Memphis Music Blog

Whether specifically making time to listen to music or simply using it as background noise, it is a part of daily life. Memphis is teeming with homegrown music; it's in our roots, it's in our soul, it's in the ground we walk upon. The music industry in Memphis is a tight-knit community and while the players may not be internationally or nationally famous, they are known within the surrounding community making them Memphis Famous. 

Memphis does music! However, our city is lacking an outreach of music news and blogging devoted specifically to our local scene. Because Memphis is so rich with the Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Metal, Punk, Rap, and Electric Dance music, the missing element of current, new, explosive talent outreach is a damn shame. Even the exclusively local music, internet radio station Radio-Memphis.com is lacking content. Sure, they have a large analytical following with listeners and followers internationally tuning in to programming, joining in on Facebook threads and Instagram feeds, callers, a parade of musicians in the studio, as well as listeners congregating to participate in the live video programming and chat room, but on thing is missing. The website is lacking content. 

Most of the blogs and news sources in Memphis that cover Memphis Music simply post a schedule of performances. That is not enough. I have had to look nationally to find music blogs that I admire. These blogs are The Key from Philadelphia and The Wild Honey Pie based in New York. These websites marry visual and audio into aesthetic revelry by:

• using the art from the album as an icon for the story link
• accompanying every article with a vibrant photograph of the band, I am always more apt to remember if a face goes with a name
• manufacturing professionally produced, recorded, mixed, and engineered recordings of live sessions
• providing free downloads of the bands singles

These websites have an entire staff devoted to providing schedules of shows to come, current releases, penned columns including personal humor in such things as compiling songs to exercise to. While The Key shares their content in a straightforward manner, The Wild Honey Pie resembles a designer's lively and colorful inspiration board or a vibrant online music festival scrapbook of that girl from high school that went to every concert. The only things missing from their scrapbook are the ticket stubs and autographs. With any luck I will collect those too, but all from Memphis.