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...DIED. ESTELLE AXTON, 85, bank teller who mortgaged her home to fund, with her brother, the 1961 creation of the classic soul label Stax Records; in Memphis. Stax, which took its name from the first letters of Axton's and her brother Jim Stewart's last names, had hits with songs like Booker T. and the MGs' Green Onions, Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, and Sam and Dave's Soul...
...beaten-path consignment shop. But today, threads from the past are a ubiquitous and accessible part of fashion, and retailers across the country--including department stores like Bloomingdale's and Henri Bendel in New York City--sell vintage alongside contemporary collections. "It's as if it was another label," says Tiffany Dubin, the author of Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes, who introduced couture auctions to Sotheby's in 1997 and owns the vintage outpost Lair ("an uptown tag sale," she says) at Bendel...
...bands with a heady disdain for melody, think again. It would be hard to be more artsy than Brighton, U.K.-based quartet Electrelane. On their first album, they eschewed the use of vocals (classy), but for “The Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones on “This Deed” are from...
...soul-channeling and furious garage punk. And the soon to be released Pawn Shoppe Heart, already available in the U.K. and on iTunes, offers more of the same addictive, bombastic energy, only cleaner and with slightly less of a blues slant. This second album marks their major label debut—they’ve switched from the indie Sympathy for the Record Industry to Sire, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers—and it shows in the quality of recording...
They are also cute, which can’t hurt their popularity. But with all the possibility that recent attention and a new major label release seem to offer, the Von Bondies don’t care what comes of their fame. “[It’s] not like we need to be headlining Lollapalooza next year,” Smith says. “We don’t have really big, crazy goals like that. I love what I do. I love being in this band and it’s an opportunity that...