Watch Vintage Trouble and Booker T. Jones on Conan

Last night, Vintage Trouble brought their characteristically energetic live show to the stage of Conan to play “Nancy Lee” from their album The Bomb Shelter Sessions. Joining the band for the performance was the legendary Booker T. Jones. Check out the song in the player above....  read more

This Week's New Album Releases (5/10/11)

We picked a baker’s dozen of noteworthy albums out today. Okkervil River gets more ambitious and The Antlers get a little less so (because how else can you follow up an album called Hospice?). Plus 75-year-old Lee “Scratch” Perry keeps working his mojo....  read more

Booker T. Jones: The Road from Memphis

I know it’s hard to do, but admit it: those Booker T. & the MG’s records are kinda corny. Yes, yes, they’re fun, they’re groovy, they’re funky, and they’re slathered with so much Memphis-style sauce, it wouldn’t be hard to mistake ‘em for a dish at Payne’s BBQ. But still, those Beatles covers, that Rascals cover, hell, even “Green Onions” … they’re all just kinda corny in a lighthearted, we-cracked-the-bottle-open-and-this-is-what-poured-out kinda way. This is an observation that nobody likes to make, mainly because it casts an aspersion on the World’s Best House Band, the guys that defined the Stax take...  read more