Memphis’ major export, the Oblivians, were on NPR today at KEXP at the University of Washington. On Monday evening, the layout of NPR’s music site placed them below Elton John but on par with ?uestlove and Leonard Berstein. That’ll work. Eric Friedl is cloud-seeding Gonerfest 10 like a master. Nicely done, sir.
Valerie June played the Tonight Show last night. She starts after the last hash mark in the video timeline. 37:42. You can see it if you watch a million commercials. Seriously, a million. You will watch 2 minutes 30 seconds of commercials; Xfinity seconds, not real seconds. It’s worth the wait. Compared to her David Letterman appearance, she seems more at home with her band and more comfortable in her role. She seems to be justifying all the recent publicity. All the best from Memphis.