"I'm looking for something that'll… break through. You know?" James Woods' Max Renn yearns in David Cronenberg's 1983 cult classic Videodrome . Oh, how things have changed. In today's day and age, we've already drowned in media. It's swallowed us. We're nothing but a bubble amidst one infinite, engulfing abyss. Intimidated? You should be. With each passing second, you're losing opportunities to take advantage of a culture that's moving ahead and at an exhausting rate. You could very well be alone… left behind… abandoned. Terrified yet? Yes? Well, that's more like it. -Michael Roffman [...]
When most people hear "four-piece band from Memphis," laptops and synthesizers aren't the first instruments that come to mind. Yet Tennessee natives Fast Planet manage to skillfully channel indie-electronic rhythms through melancholy but endearing lyrical themes reminiscent of The Postal Service or The Nowtiwst. In support of their debut LP Jes , the band released the music video for "Lost", an album standout and recent Audience Award Winner at the Live From Memphis Music Video Showcase. You know the old adage: "If at first you don't succeed, try try again." The video shows that Fast Planet lives and almost [...]
The southern city of Memphis, TN has a very prestigious and well-documented place in the history of music. Often referred to as the home of blues, gospel and rock n' roll, it's one of the last areas you would expect to produce a progressive electropop group. So with that in mind, cheers to pleasant surprises and the joy that they bring. Jes , the debut album from Memphis-based quartet Fast Planet is a musical curveball from a famous place that launched the careers of such legends as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. In a [...]
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Memphis has a strangely disjointed music scene these days , or at least as it seems to me - but I am a native Memphian and a relative outsider at times, even in my own town. Things are changing so quickly these days as I focus on working with Future Unlimited , truly the most exciting new band I've heard in years, and veer away from really writing this music blog as more than a hobby. My tastes have accrued over time & I've gravitated towards certain aspects of the music created here [...]
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