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On Wednesday, April 9, Soul Coughing will play the Hi Tone. It will be only the second time the band has played Memphis. The first was in 1995, when they opened for Jeff Buckley at the New Daisy on Beale Street.
A lot has happened since then. After three innovative albums and a string of hits unlike anything else on the radio, the band broke up acrimoniously in the late 1990s. Bandleader Mike Doughty pursued a solo career which took him all over the world. Ten years ago, he moved to Memphis, where he still resides today.
Last year, the classic lineup of Soul Coughing patched up their differences and embarked on a modest comeback tour. To the surprise of everyone involved, the tour sold out in a matter of minutes.
Now, the band is headed out on the road again, and they’re kicking it off in Doughty’s adopted home town of Memphis. The Hi Tone will be the smallest venue on this leg of the tour, so this is a chance to see the 90s underground legends in an intimate setting.
On this week’s Memphis Flyer Podcast, Mike Doughty sat down with Chris McCoy for a wide-ranging conversation about music, Memphis, and life.
This week we introduce Memphis to your future leaders with our annual 20<30 issue. You can read about our readers’ and staff’s picks for Memphis’ best and brightest here.
Of our 20 honorees, 19 chose to do Zoom interviews with journalist Chris McCoy (Noah Miller opted to do his interview via email), so on this week’s podcast, you can hear them talk in their own words about who they are, what they do, and why they do it.
This week on the Memphis Flyer Podcast, we’re all about podcasting! Sonosphere creator and host Amy Schaftlein joins Chris McCoy to talk about her pioneering music podcast, her day job at United Housing, and The Brutalist. Read this week’s cover story here.
This week’s cover story by Toby Sells is about Historic Haunts Memphis. We followed the Bluff City paranormal investigators as they explored Memphis’ haunted juke joint Earnestine & Hazel’s, and tried to contact the many spirits who supposedly reside there. On the Memphis Flyer YouTube channel, we’ve got video of the spooky expedition. Happy Halloween!
On Wednesday, Sept. 18th, the day our Best of Memphis 2024 list was released to a waiting world, the winners gathered at Railgarten for a celebration.
I was there with my trusty iPhone camera to record the event for posterity. Thanks to Salo Pallini for the music, and for everyone involved in making this party a raving success.
“Karen, what are you doing?”
Karen Carrier has heard that phrase more than once during her long, fascinating career.
If you’ve ever wondered about all the hair dryers in Cooper-Young’s Beauty Shop Restaurant, Carrier gives you the lowdown in the final We Saw You episode featuring the Memphis restaurateur/artist. And as a bonus, you’ll hear the history of her underground music club, Bar DKDC.
We’ll be back with more interviews with interesting Memphians and Mid-Southerners soon on We Saw You. But first, here’s Karen.
In this We Saw You episode, Karen Carrier, the Memphis artist and restaurateur who owns Beauty Shop Restaurant, DKDC, Mollie Fontaine Lounge, and Another Roadside Attraction catering, talks about meeting her husband, the late Bob Carrier. “I go to to New York to meet a guy from Memphis,” she says.
This is one of my favorite episodes of the new We Saw You video series. Restaurateur/artist Karen Carrier tells me how she got into cooking. In the 1980s, she was living in New York, where she was going to go to graduate school. But she had to “figure out a way to make a living.”
You need to hear Carrier talk about all this. Her life sounds like a novel I’d like to read. And re-read.
We continue our interview with restaurateur/artist Karen Carrier. This is episode four, which is part of the We Saw You video series — hosted by yours truly — about Memphians and Mid-Southerners.
In this episode, Carrier and I sat down at her home while she talked about her aunt, Gloria Sklen, who lived in New York.
Sklen, who sounds like the eccentric bohemian Auntie Mame was a mosaic artist and “just wild,” Carrier says. “I was just mesmerized by her.”