Ruby Dawn is a collaborative music project between Ashley Gerst and Ben Bauermeister. The two are a couple who starting creating music together while Ashley was living in Busan, South Korea and Ben was in Memphis, TN. The couple collaborated on music files that were sent back and forth overseas. Now, with both members living back in Memphis the music continues to evolve and develop.

Tinzo is a music artist, DJ, and the co-founder of Book Club Radio.
As a Queer Filipino-American, Tinzo’s music is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ experience; with inspiration drawn from house, soul, and trance.
Lyrically honest and sonically spirited, Tinzo intends to connect with listeners through the intimacy of her music.

Fresh Flesh is a heavy-pop quartet from Memphis, TN.  Their sound falls somewhere between proto-punk bands of the 60’s and 70’s and garage rock revivalists of the early 2000’s.  Most songs clock in at less than two minutes. The result is catchy and energetic.  

Vocalist and rhythm guitarist, Alicja Trout’s resume includes River City Tanlines, Lost Sounds, and Sweet Knives.  Luke Stubblefield (drummer) and Noel Clark (lead guitarist) collaborated in the punk Americana group, Grave Pioneer, before enlisting Trout to form Fresh Flesh in 2015.  The band has over a decade in age differences and so draws from each member different versions of their influences of punk, indie rock, and garage.  

Andrew Earles of the Memphis Flyer commented: “It's an instantly memorable and perfectly unflashy formula that all four members seem comfortable presenting as if the band has far more live gigs behind it than it actually does.“

Fresh Flesh has an upcoming release on Italian garage dark-wave trash punk label Goodbye Boozy as well as Buffalo, NY’s noisy lo-fi rock n roll label Bigneck Records, the home of the early Lost Sounds release “Memphis is Dead”.  

References” Minor Threat, The Gits, the Marked Men, Gorilla Angreb, the Hives, Pere Ubu

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The Memphis quintet Mouserocket, a sort of supergroup made up of members of such esteemed outfits as Vending Machine, the River City Tanlines and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, is supposed to be an afterthought. Tanlines (and Lost Sounds and Black Sunday) leader Alicja Trout started the group a dozen years ago as an outlet for some quiet songs. And to this day the now-more-adult-oriented group, which performs sporadically, still finds itself competing with its members other side projects.

Even with a established name and fan base (its last record, 2008’s Pretty Loud, earned an impressive 7 rating from online hipster Bible Pitchfork.com, Mouserocket only set aside a scant five days to record its recently released third album, Cicada Sounds.

In light of the finished product, available in local stores and through Bandcamp, it seems clear that the haste was more for aesthetic or financial reasons than a gauge of how much commitment and thought members of Mouserocket put into the project. In fact, the new record may well be the pinnacle of achievement for all involved, a catchy, smartly crafted alternative rock album that stacks up with the best of recent memory.

Featuring the excellent rhythm section of Robert Barnett on drums and Hemant Gupta on bass as well as the invaluable stamp of Jonathan Kirkscey on, most significantly, cello, at its core, the appeal of Mouserocket still remains the tension between the songwriting styles of Trout and co-front person Robby Grant (Vending Machine). The two have clearly had an impact on each other.

On songs like “I Can’t Keep My Hands Off You” and “How To Say No,” Trout, whose hooks still retain a spark of the band’s youthful inspiration, shades her usual hard-driving rock style with all sorts of intriguing harmonic shifts and unexpected progressions. In contrast to Trout’s five songs, Grant contributes only two (the eighth, set closer “Flying Saucer Home” is from Brooklyn musician Timothy Feleppa), but they may be the collection’s best, with the ever quirky tunesmith not over thinking things on tracks like “Take More.”


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