How do Memphis’ outdoor live-music venues decide when the weather is bad enough to cancel events?

Local lovers of the genre are once again staging the Memphis Power Pop Festival. But what is power pop, anyway?

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Discover new Memphis music with the Arts Beat’s latest playlist, here just in time for 901 Day. 

Work begins on the Southaven arena’s $85 million project, starting a new chapter with an economic impact that will benefit the community for generations.

The Memphis Symphony Chorus is about to hold auditions for its upcoming season, continuing a 60-year tradition of high-level choral arrangements with no financial incentive.

At the 50th Stone Soul Picnic, gospel singers and R&B performers will blend as the owner of Memphis’ first Black-owned radio station is honored. 

A new season of Opera Memphis starts at libraries, farmers markets and festivals.

The album is a “familial” record, KIRBY says, based on her “Mississippi Black American experience.”

The Beatles stopped in Memphis during their August 1966 tour amid a backdrop of protest. The supergroup never toured again, and Memphis could have been a factor in the decision.

The People’s Hip Hop Awards Experience Weekend ends with an award show Downtown with appearances by Big Boogie, the Memphis Jookers and more.

Fans of The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll came to Memphis to celebrate his life and music, traveling from as close as North Mississippi and as distant as Australia.

The annual Candlelight Vigil, the cornerstone event for Elvis Week each year, draws thousands of fans to Graceland on the eve of Presley’s death.

An organizer said he hopes that Memphis will continue to host the awards yearly and potentially serve as a future replacement for the BET Hip Hop Awards, which were suspended.

More than half the songs have never been released in the U.S.

Taylor Swift played at Beale Street’s Itta Bena in 2007 and helped generate a special bond between a father and a daughter. 

In what a former Memphis police chief laughingly calls a “goat rodeo from the word go,” three bumbling crooks hatched a harebrained scheme to steal the body of Elvis Presley two weeks after his death. It didn’t go very well.

Whitlock, who grew up in Millington and got his start at Stax Records, will forever be known as a member of Derek and the Dominoes.

With Chad Weekley’s new Listening Lab role comes the opportunity for collaboration, where someone in town to play Central Station could do a Q&A or workshops at the Listening Lab. 

Here’s your guide to Elvis Week events in Memphis, including Graceland tours, Elvis Presley tribute artists, and the somber Candlelight Vigil. 

For someone who has spent their entire working life in show business in one capacity or another, Jon Hornyak has avoided the limelight. Until now. 

Greg Desrosiers Jr. has three songs on Apple Music and Spotify. Most of his music is unreleased, but he shares his catalog with teammates.

Concert opportunities abound in August, so much so that the must-see concerts story this month includes the usual five concerts, as well as two festivals worth your time.

The group, which was founded in the 1950s, had its first hit with 1959’s “Shout.” 

Timberlake shared the news in a post commemorating his Forget Tomorrow tour adding that the disease “can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically.”

Days after her sold-out Glo Bash at FedExForum, national and international brands are spotlighting the Memphis native.