Watch Reigning Sound live in Birmingham!

Here's Greg Cartwright's Reigning Sound gettin' busy in Birmingham along with an interview. 

That time the Reigning Sound backed Mary Weiss on Late Night with Conan

Mary Weiss performed a great version of "Stop and Think It Over" accompanied by Greg Cartwright and crew in 2007. 

Greg Cartwright's album with The Hypos is out now on vinyl!

Greg Cartwright's album with The Hypos is now available on vinyl wherever cool records are sold. Catch 'em on tour!  

Two For The Weekend: The Hypos feat. Greg Cartwright

Hear "Heartbroke Town" & "All Summer" off the new LP by Greg Cartwright's new band The Hypos out today. Get it right here.

Midweek Mixdown: The Songs Greg Cartwright Taught Us

Check out the Outsider Oldies special on NTS Live "The Songs Greg Cartwright Taught Us" right here. See the full track list below. 

Track list

THE GENTRYS  Brown Paper Sack

TRIO Ja Ja Ja

YOUNG JESSIE, MAXWELL DAVIS & ORCH.  Mary Lou

BROWNIE MCGHEE Christina

THE CONTOURS Whole Lotta Woman

CYRUS ERIE Get The Message

THE LEATHER BOY On The Go

MONKS Oh, How To Do Now

TRIO Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone

NOLAN STRONG & THE DIABLOS I Want To Be Your Happiness

BO DIDDLEY Road Runner

LIGHTNING HOPKINS Vietnam War

MAHALIA JACKSON I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About

LOVE Alone Again Or

THE TORNADOES Telstar

SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS Black Sheep

THE MONKEES So Goes Love

GEORGE JACKSON Tender Love

GLASS SUN Stick Over Me

DILLARD & CLARK So Sad

Check out two songs off the new album from Greg Cartwright's band The Hypos right here.

That time The Oblivians played Tucson's Wooden Tooth Records

Here's Greg Cartwright and crew playing "Bad Man" in Tuscon back in 2019. See Jack O at Hernando's Hide-A-Way tonight! 

 

If you happen to be in Memphis, check out Jack Oblivian & The Sheiks at Hernando's Hide-A-Way on Saturday (Mar 18). 

Whaddya mean you don't know The Porch Ghouls

Memphis ruckus-raisers Porch Ghouls put out a couple of records in the early 2000s which most folks outside of Bluff City slept on. 

That time Greg Oblivian joined the Deadly Snakes at the El Mocambo

Here's Greg Cartwright tearin' it up with Toronto's own Deadly Snakes at the legendary El Mocambo way back in 1999. 

Greg Cartwright announces the end of Reigning Sound

After 21 years and 10 solid albums, Greg Cartwright decided it was time to end Reigning Sound.

Reigning Sound releasing live album for Record Store Day

Reigning Sound's limited-run RSD album cleverly titled Memphis In June is out Saturday, April 23. 

Here's the scoop...

Greg Cartwright and his rock 'n' roll holdouts in Reigning Sound are putting out the limited-edition Memphis In June album recorded at Harbor Town Amphitheatre in their hometown back in June of 2021. Merge is said to have pressed 2.970 copies of the 12-song LP on neon orange vinyl for release on Saturday April 23. 

Check out the track listing below followed by a live clip of Reigning Sound performing "Make It Up." 

Reigning Sound – Memphis In June

Let's Do It Again / Make It Up / Never Coming Home / Drowning / On and On / She's Bored With You / Time Bomb High School / Funny Thing / Reptile Style / Just Say When / I'll Be Your Man / Moving & Shaking

R.I.P. Detroit Cobras' Rachel Nagy

Sadly, Detroit Cobras' soulful frontwoman Rachel Nagy has passed away. She'll be greatly missed.   

 

LINKS

Detroit Metro Times – Detroit Cobras frontwoman Rachel Nagy has died, according to band

NME – Rachel Nagy, vocalist of Detroit Cobras, has died 

No Such Thing As Was – Rachel Nagy "While you're there, do it" by Joe Bonomo

One For The Weekend: Reigning Sound

"Make It Up" is from the Reigning Sound At Harbour Town concert being broadcast on Sept. 10 at 8 pm. Get tickets right here. 

Watch the Reigning Sound's video for "Let's Do It Again"

"Let's Do It Again" is off A Little More Time With Reigning Sound out May 21st. Watch the clip below. 

LINKS

Velvet Sheep Greg Cartwright talks about his current vinyl obsessions here

One For The Weekend: Reigning Sound

Here's "Oh Christine" from the forthcoming album, A Little More Time with Reigning Sound out May 21st. Pre-order it here. 

Reigning Sound previews new album with "A Little More Time"

Memphis rockers Reigning Sound are releasing "A Little More Time" b/w "Lonely Ghost" on March 5. New album out May 21. 

Reigning Sound 

Greg Cartwright – Vocals, Guitars, Percussion 

Alex Greene – Vocals, Keys, Percussion 

Greg Roberson – Vocals, Drums, Percussion 

Jeremy Scott – Bass, Vocals 

Graham Winchester – Drums, Percussion 

With guest players 

Coco Hames – Vocals 

John Whittemore – Pedal Steel Guitar 

Elen Wroten – Cello 

Krista Wroten – Violin 

Goblin Alert! New Quintron album produced by Greg Cartwright due in October

Check out "Buc-ee's Got A Problem" off the Goblin Alert! album from Quintron & Miss Pussycat out October 16th.

HERE IT IS!!

The first proper Quintron and Miss Pussycat full-length since 2011’s Sucre Du Sauvage, and the duo’s third for Memphis Tennessee’s Goner Records. Produced by Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians/Reigning Sound) and recorded on 2 inch tape at Gainesville Florida’s Pulp Arts studio, Goblin Alert! picks up where Sucre Du Sauvage left off – snotty, semi-political, trash-anthems like, “Teenagers Don’t Know Shit”, “Stroller Pollution”, and “Buc-ee’s Got A Problem” (listen below). Also, for the first time ever, Q and P have ditched the drum machine in favor of New Orleans jazz-basher, Sam Yoger (Babes, AJ Davilla) on drum kit, and slinky Florida man, Danny Clifton (Room 13, Jane Jane Pollock) on hollow body guitar. 

The resulting vibe is some kinda tweaked-out Miami disco dipped into a Mississippi mudslide, especially the tracks featuring Biloxi talk-box master, Benny Divine (aka BENNI’). And for the mystery lovers, there is 3/4 power-ballad entitled, “Where’s Karen”, featuring backing vocals by Heather Lee (Room 13, Jane Jane Pollock), about a troubled girl who vanished on Mardi Gras day. You can pre-order a vinyl copy of Goblin Alert! directly from Goner Records right here. 

ABOUT QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT

Quintron and Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over fifteen years. The majority of their 16 full-length albums have the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music, filtered through a vintage Hammond B-3, technicolor puppets, and a battal- ion of distorted, homemade instruments. Plus the sounds of the swamp. 

In addition to his work with Miss Pussycat, Quintron has been releasing albums featuring a self-made weather synthesizer called "WEATHER WARLOCK", which uses sun, rain, temperature, and barometric pressure to make music. He has also played Hammond organ on a number of records by other artists, most notably THE OBLIVIANS "9 Songs" and STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS "Grand Isle" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2012 and featured the Quintron penned song "Chatterbox". Quintron has also appeared in several films and television shows, including 2019 Showtime hit, On Becoming A God In Central Florida.

Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s sweaty musical blasts are paralleled in spirit and performance by Miss Pussycat’s dreamy puppet worlds – elaborate, and beautifully crafted for success in intimate venues of late- night drinking and dancing. She has also had several major solo museum exhibitions and, although the puppets are NEVER for sale, ceramics, paintings and other visual work related to her puppetry, are repre- sented by the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie Texas. A large show of oil paintings and ceramics is scheduled for Fall 2020

The Quintron / Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, "Swamp-Tech" dance beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. You can see them perform regularly at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana or on one of their many tours around the world. This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university lecture halls.

 

River Records owner Jerry Gibson killed during robbery

Sadly beloved record dealer Jerry Gibson was killed Thursday night at River Records in Memphis. 

According to Action News 5, gregarious Memphis record dealer Jerry Gibson was shot and killed around closing time last night at River Records on South Highland, apparently the victim of a robbery. Police are currently looking for witnesses and combing through security camera footage to identify possible suspects. Anyone with information should call CrimeStoppers in Memphis at (901) 528-CASH.

Today music fans everywhere are mourning the loss of Gibson, the outgoing and uproariously funny music man who ran the popular collectibles shop packed tight with vinyl curios for decades. Longtime River Records customer Greg Cartwright (of Reining Sound) is paying tribute to Gibson by playing the music Jerry loved on 103.3 Asheville FM's "In The Box" from 11am to 1pm this afternoon which you can stream here.

Wrote Cartwright:
Today's show is dedicated to legendary record shop owner Jerry Gibson who died tragically yesterday during a robbery at his store in Memphis, TN. My home town. Perhaps legendary seems too grand an adjective for a man who ran a record store, but he was known the world over. On a personal note, he afforded me the pleasure of sharpening my ear and my taste for music on the best collection of used inventory I've ever had the pleasure of digging through. To this day, the best. Thanks Jerry. 
There are two themes for today's show. Part 1 will be Teen 45's from the late 50's and early 60's. Part two will be bubblegum pop from the late 60's and early 70's.

Much like Cartwright who now lives in North Carolina but would still stop by River Records whenever he was back home, just about every serious digger I've known who has passed through Memphis over the last 25 years has made a point of visiting Jerry at River Records. And after crawling on hands and knees for hours sifting through thousands of unpriced, unsorted soul, R&B, funk and gospel 45s piled floor to ceiling, they would then have to deal with store's wisecracking owner.

Jerry would astutely size up his customers and their prized discoveries to arrive at a price based on current market value and his own personality assessment using key information gleaned from his checkout interview. Your chat with Jerry could last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour beginning with a discussion of your place of origin, employment status, family situation, travel plans or the weather and ending with why you're interested in the records you've brought to the front desk. "Well, well, well, I can't say this one looks familiar to me," Gibson would chuckle, "but since you've got four more copies here, you must think pretty highly of it, son!"

For all those who scored big at River Records over the years, there's a way to give back.
Regular River Records customer and Gibson pal Parker Hays has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help out Jerry Gibson's family during this very difficult time. Jerry had no life insurance so any contribution would help with funeral costs.   

LINKS
Commercial Appeal River Records Owner Killed Thursday
WMC Action News 5 Beloved business man killed inside Memphis record store

Philly's finest Low Cut Connie tear up The Drake Hotel, Saturday

Low Cut Connie's latest Hi Honey was produced by Thomas Brenneck and features Greg Cartwright.

Reigning Sound @ The Horseshoe, Saturday

Check out Reigning Sound's stellar performance at Soda Bar in San Diego on July 2. 2014. 

Set List:
1. Stop and Think It Over (0:00)
2. North Cackalacky Girl (3:38)
3. Never Coming Home (6:46)
4. Debris (10:12)
5. Starting New (13:04)
6. My My (16:27)
7. Reptile Style (19:40)
8. I'm So Thankful (23:15)
9. Falling Rain (26:17)
10. Your Love is a Fine Thing (29:29)
11. I'll Cry (32:30)
12. We Repel Each Other (35:06)
13. Bound to Let Me Down (38:50)
14. Once More (41:42)
15. Drowning (44:53)
16. You Got Me Hummin (48:33)
17. Stormy Weather (51:22)
18. Bad Man (53:47)
19. You're So Strange (56:35)
20. I Don't Care(1:00:08)
21. Trash Talk (1:02:57)
22. Straight Shooter (1:05:30)
23. If You Can't Give Me Everything (1:07:25)
24. What Could I Do (1:10:31)

Watch the new Reigning Sound video for Never Coming Home

Reigning Sound's Shattered album is out now. Tickets are on sale for their Horseshoe gig October 25.

REIGNING SOUND TOUR DATES

July
July 24 - Carrboro, NC @ Merge 25 @ Cat's Cradle
July 25 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
July 26 - Asheville, NC The Mothlight

August
27 Philadelphia, Pa. @ Black Box in Underground Arts 
28 New York, N.Y. @ Bowery Ballroom 
30 Asheville, N.C. @ Harvest Records Transfigurations II
31 Columbus, Ohio @ Ace of Cups

September
1 Chicago, Ill. @ Empty Bottle
2 Bloomington, Ind. @ The Bishop 
4 Raleigh, N.C. @ Hopscotch Festival

October
Thu 23 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs
Fri 24 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
Sat 25 Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
Sun 26 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
Mon 27 Detroit, MI – PJ’s Lager House
Tues 28 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Wed 29 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
Thurs 30 Iowa City, IA – The Mill
Fri 31 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar

November
Sat 1 Memphis TN @ Hi-Tone
Sun 2 Nashville TN @ Mercy Lounge 
Mon 3 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre