Art Neville of The Neville Brothers & The Meters dies

Keyboardist and founding member of New Orleans First Family The Neville Brothers, as well as funk ambassadors The Meters and Funky Meters, has passed away at age 81.  Singer-songwriter and core alt-country artist Ryan Adams has emerged from a self-imposed exile of sorts, with a rambling Instagram post, in which he says he has a lot to say and he's going to say it soon. Adams was accused by multiple women of sexual and psychological abuse. French alt-pop-dance band Phoenix will celebrate thirty years of existence with the release of a book in the fall, which chronicles interviews, photos and lyrics. And Memphis cult singer-songwriter Bob Frank, who experienced a late-in-life revival after copies of his initially commercially unsuccessful 1972 debut album started selling for a hundred-dollars-each, has passed away at the age of 75. Memphis producer Jim Dickinson (Big Star) once called Frank "the greatest songwriter you never heard of."