With influences like The Band, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Basement Brew is a dynamic folk-rock band from Fayetteville, AR. The Brew offers solid songwriting, performed in ways that are both fun and moving. One should expect a range of sounds, from soul ballads to intense rock/blues riffs, which surround heartfelt lyrics and melodies.

Memphis made his Texas debut in 2018 releasing his first single produced by Jaret Reddick, called “Move Along”. Just as Move Along was released Memphis went back into studio to work on his debut EP, “Bloody is the Water,” with producer John Pedigo at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas. Pedigo and Memphis teamed up again late in the year to record and release another the original, “Fairy Tales”.

2019 proved to be busier than the previous as he started interning at The Echo Labs studio under Matt Pence as well as actively playing out multiple times a week. “Trophy Wife” became Memphis third recorded single, written by John Paul Smith of the Coal Creek Boys. Soon after joining Vincent Neil Emerson on Bass Guitar in August on their West Coast Tour and many other tours until the Spring of 2020 when COVID shutdown the entertainment industry. After the world was shut in, Memphis went back into The Echo Labs studio to record 10 new songs with Paul Cauthen and Matt Pence as producers of the session. “Learning to Cry” by Justin Townes Earl was recorded during this time as Memphis fourth single, produced by Sam Culp. He also contributed on bass to music projects for singers Dakota Smith, South Texas Tweak and David Miner’s album called Silver Valley.

Fast forward to now, you’ll find Memphis sitting on one of the best albums you’ve ever heard. Running a feed store in a small town in North Fort Worth Texas, singing to the chickens, and writing for the next album in hopes they will both see the light on stage.

When they go low, we get high. 
High Lonesome is a melodic, literate, garage-pop/pillewave trio from Fayetteville, Arkansas led by poet-lyricist-bassist-composer with a loose canon, Martin Bemberg; driven by ethnomusicologist and drum line pedagogue Dick Darden of trap set; whipped into shape with denim riffs and two bar solos by guitarist, brewmaster, and rock and roll enforcer Sean "Rock Hard" Johnson. Band namesake be a short story collection by late Mr. Southern Lit -- and recruit to UA-Fayetteville's first  MFA class in Creative Writing  -- Barry Hannah, which short story collection's opening is the entitled "Get Some Young." Same as October 2014's full-length album (available on Bandcamp, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, et cetera et in person or by snail male). "Get Some Young" is the follow-up to 2013's raw and minimal "Sloppy Gospel" EP, which captured the band's early sound using rugged, often MacGuyver-like engineering techniques. "It's Midnight I'm Not Famous Yet," the new full-length is on fleek and in tweak and -finishing touch mode. It's that next level, wear your influences (Zevon, Plato, Pynchon, Rundgren, politics) on your sleeve shit, and it goes there like Degrassi. Capital-T Tunes on feminism, fascism, with fat bass and on fleek riffs and Darden coming soon to a format near you. Soonness TBD, then of course BA.

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