Memphis on the internet.
Oblivians
A music researcher found that finches don’t like The Oblivians. A fascinating New Yorker story about the research said the birds would hit levers that played bird songs, flutes, and trumpets many times.
They avoided a lever that played a recording of a canary, “a large, threatening species,” and another with a song by The Oblivians, described as a “noisy garage-rock band from Memphis.”
“The first time they heard the band, the finches shrieked and jumped away from the lever,” reads the story. “They never listened to The Oblivians again.”
That storm
When the weather was wild last Friday, The DAMN Weather of Memphis was there for the play-by-play “because you need balance with actual weather reporting and shitty, cult-following weather reporting,” he posted.
Reddit user u/Smoke1000Blunts got the convo going on the Memphis subreddit asking, “What are you drinking for the end of the world tonight?” Milo’s Sweet Tea got the most upvotes.
April Fools’
Meddlesome Brewing Company announced a new Mashed Potato & Gravy Black and Tan and a Loaded Mashed Potato Porter last week in an April Fools’ release that said it was “time to carb up and veg out.”
