There are 21 article(s) tagged Music Export Memphis:

• January 2021

  • Why is the African American Music museum in Nashville?

    The answer is simple and it also stings. It’s in Nashville because Nashville asked for it.

    By Elizabeth Cawein January 27, 2021

• December 2020

  • December playlist: Music for the definitely-not-normal holidays

    We can pledge not to go “back to normal.” Normal, in the best of times, found us donating to GoFundMe campaigns to cover emergency medical bills of folks in our music community. Normal was $100 a gig for musicians. Normal is the system that’s broken.

    By Elizabeth Cawein December 25, 2020

  • ArtsMemphis launches ‘Arts Week’ in a community changed, perhaps forever, by pandemic

    While the impact of COVID makes this a particularly urgent moment for the survival of the city’s creative community, ArtsMemphis also plans to make Arts Week an annual event. 

    By Chris Herrington December 07, 2020

• November 2020

  • November playlist: ‘Fresh Out the Oven’

    ‘Your friends and family may be familiar with Memphis music past, but how much do they know about Memphis music present? This playlist includes a selection of the freshest tracks I’ve played on my WYXR show “Straight from the Source.”’

    By Elizabeth Cawein November 27, 2020

• October 2020

  • October Playlist: ‘Straight from the Source’

    Elizabeth Cawein’s lifelong love affair with radio informs her new WYXR show, “Straight from the Source,” and the October Playlist.

    By Elizabeth Cawein October 30, 2020

• September 2020

  • September playlist: An Americana mix

    As a fan at a virtual concert, you always have the best seat in the house, the bathrooms are clean and close, and the drinks are strong and really cheap.

    By Elizabeth Cawein September 19, 2020

  • Artist Emergency Fund beginning second phase

    ArtsMemphis received $200,000 in local CARES Act funding to support the second phase of grants.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 11, 2020

• August 2020

  • August playlist: Music is essential

    Buy some Memphis music, y’all. Our independent record stores are back open and doing shopping by appointment, which, honestly, is pretty cool.

    By Elizabeth Cawein August 23, 2020

  • How Memphis musicians are dealing with the coronavirus shutdown

    This week on The Extra Podcast, Elizabeth Cawein, executive director of Music Export Memphis, joins Eric Barnes to talk about how local musicians are dealing with the coronavirus shutdown.

    By Eric Barnes August 12, 2020

• July 2020

  • July playlist: Silver Linings

    Before this is all over there will be plenty of other songs like Yo Gotti’s "Recession Proof" that comment specifically on the pandemic. Even the tracks that don’t feature bridges about Zoom meetings will still reflect the mood and feelings of this moment.

    By Elizabeth Cawein July 25, 2020

• June 2020

  • June playlist: Celebrate Black Music Month

    We should be as bold and bullish about our contemporary black music as we are about all of our claims to fame, from FedEx and Holiday Inn to historic music attractions to dry rub ribs.

    By Elizabeth Cawein June 26, 2020

• May 2020

  • A Memphis music playlist for April/May

    This month's playlist is accompanied by news about the Music Export Memphis COVID-19 Relief Fund, which to date has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to individual Memphis musicians.

    By Elizabeth Cawein May 02, 2020

• March 2020

  • March playlist: Discover

    If you love what you hear, let the mix play a few times to be sure the artists see a few pennies. Now is the time to buy that extra record, download an album instead of streaming it, spring for that cool T-shirt or koozie or sticker.

    By Elizabeth Cawein March 22, 2020

• January 2020

  • January playlist: Rep your city

    At gatherings, I only have to share one fact to get people interested: It’s music from Memphis. 

    By Elizabeth Cawein January 25, 2020

• May 2019

  • May Playlist: Happy birthday to us

    It would be easier in Memphis than anywhere else on Earth to feature 200 songs in honor of our city's 200th anniversary, but this list wasn’t meant to be exhaustive – not even close!

    By Elizabeth Cawein May 25, 2019

• April 2019

  • The Weekly Memphian: Outkast turns 25, Tambourine Bash, Time-Warp Drive-In and David Sedaris

    The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers April 17-23.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 17, 2019

  • Memphis music for April: Collaboration

    There’s something wonderful about musical collaborations, both the totally unexpected and the so-perfect-together-they’re-completely-obvious.

    By Elizabeth Cawein April 13, 2019

• March 2019

  • Memphis music for March: the Spring Sprang Sprung playlist

    Here are 20 songs from the Memphis music catalog that will improve your commute one day this week.

    By Elizabeth Cawein March 23, 2019

• February 2019

  • Memphis music for February: Let’s lean in to the misery

    Memphis has provided the world with some of the great love songs, but love is not always easy. Here's a playlist that takes heartbreaks, loneliness and love gone wrong into account.

    By Elizabeth Cawein February 25, 2019

• January 2019

  • Your new resolution: Listen to more Memphis music in 2019

    Statistically speaking, you've likely given up on your New Year's resolution. So Elizabeth Cawein of Music Export Memphis has a new one: Listen to more Memphis music in 2019 with the first of 12 playlists highlighting the best new songs by local artists.

    By Elizabeth Cawein January 23, 2019

• December 2018

  • An introduction to contemporary Memphis Americana

    “Ain’t gonna take no mess.”

    By Elizabeth Cawein December 11, 2018