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    Ardent Studios hosting live virtual concert

    In.Live will stream the “Coming Together,” organized by former Big Star drummer Jody Stephens of Ardent. Performers will also include Keith Sykes and musicians from bands such as Cheap Trick, The Posies and Wilco.

    By Ezra Wheeler January 23, 2021
  • Music

    After 25 years, ‘It Came From Memphis’ gets an update

    Over the past quarter century, Robert Gordon’s book has become a favorite of music lovers, and now it’s back in a revised edition that features 80 new photographs, fresh interviews, and an updated introduction.

    By Ezra Wheeler January 17, 2021
  • Music

    Records by ‘Mr. Music of Memphis’ back in circulation

    Berl Olswanger died in 1981, and now his daughter is working with Big Round Records to bring out digital releases of three of his records from the 1950s and ’60s. 

    By Peggy Burch January 11, 2021
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Herrington: Elvis & Nixon oddity adds bonus to annual birthday celebration

    An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments. 

    By Chris Herrington January 11, 2021
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Next step for Memphis Slim Collaboratory is out in the backyard

    The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.

    By Linda A. Moore January 08, 2021
  • Music

    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
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Bringing opera to Memphis on a flatbead trailer: A pandemic pivot likely to roll on

    Taking opera from the concert halls to the streets was not a new notion for Opera Memphis. Their annual “30 Days of Opera” features small pop-up performances in unlikely places, from playgrounds and dog parks to libraries and groceries. 

    By Chris Herrington December 25, 2020
  • Music

    Beale Street Music Festival out for 2021; other events on with restrictions

    Beale Street Music Festival is out again for 2021 because of COVID-19, but the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will return to the river. 

    By Jennifer Biggs December 18, 2020
  • Music

    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
  • Music

    Mark Edgar Stuart brings songwriters back to Halloran Centre

    This week’s lineup includes Savannah Brister, a former contestant on “The Voice”; Jeremy Stanfill, who writes and plays soulful roots rock; and The PRVLG, a brother duo who play modern soul.

    By Chris Herrington December 02, 2020
  • Music

    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
  • Music

    Classic Memphis dive bar Earnestine & Hazel’s for sale

    Earnestine & Hazel’s, a literal cornerstone of South Main history, culture and nightlife through good times and bad, is now for sale, as Caitlin Chittom announced on Facebook on Monday. 

    By Chris Herrington November 23, 2020
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    The Essential Memphis Library: ‘Walk the Line’

    The film stands as both a great Memphis story and a showcase for the city as a filmmaking location that can do more than play itself.

    By Chris Herrington September 04, 2024
  • Music

    Boyd: Afrofuturism, via 8Ball & MJG

    In a career that spans nearly three decades, Marlon “MJG” Goodwin and Premro “8Ball” Smith, are known for their reality raps about the seedy underbelly of society in the Mid-South, but rarely given credit for their ability to pair those observations with a heavy dose of imagination and sobering social commentary. 

    By Jared Boyd November 17, 2020
  • Music

    Orpheum’s Mighty Wurlitzer gets an encore

    After a $500,000 restoration, the Orpheum’s organ is “better than it was in 1928.” The theater will offer a free concert by organists Tony Thomas and Vincent Astor on Nov. 19. 

    By Peggy Burch November 10, 2020
  • Music

    Two Memphis DJs share their East African heritage

    For Ramzi Abdoch and Allan Yongo, DJs on WYXR, “pop music” is filtered through their world views and inspired by their lineages.

    By Jared Boyd November 06, 2020
  • Music

    Memphis Symphony fellows share ‘amazing talents’ in debut performance

    This fall, three classical musicians moved to Memphis to take part in a new fellowship between the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the University of Memphis’ Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music.

    By Elle Perry November 04, 2020
  • Music

    Boyd: Memphis hip-hop is Halloween’s soundtrack

    While the rest of the world bobs for apples, fans of hardcore Memphis rap bob their heads to a collection of artists in the 1990s who built a repertoire around slasher film samples, cartoonish descriptions of grotesque violence and occult imagery. 

    By Jared Boyd October 30, 2020
  • Music

    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
  • City of Memphis

    Elvis Presley Enterprises’ lawsuit against city of Memphis dismissed

    The federal lawsuit claimed the city interfered with Graceland’s plans for a Whitehaven arena.

    By Bill Dries October 22, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Hi-Tone reopens in its third location, to uncertain future

    Hi-Tone stages have hosted innumerable local record-release shows and been at least a partial home for signature Memphis events.

    By Chris Herrington October 12, 2020
  • Premium Music

    The Essential Memphis Library: The Replacements’ ‘Pleased to Meet Me’

    Recorded at Midtown’s Ardent Studios in late 1986 and early 1987, the Replacements’ “Pleased to Meet Me” is a fusion of the Minneapolis’ band’s ramshackle, often poetic post-punk with soul-honed Memphis studio sensibilities. 

    By Chris Herrington September 03, 2024
  • Music

    ‘At WYXR, Memphis is our format’

    The vision for the new era of the radio station is to truly, purely and honestly represent Memphis and its surrounding area. 

    By Jared Boyd October 05, 2020
  • Premium Music

    The Memphis 10: Rolling Stone’s top Memphis albums, and the ones they missed

    Memphis doesn’t loom quite as large on this list as it does in pop music history writ-large, or larger. 

    By Chris Herrington September 24, 2020
  • Music

    GonerFest aims to shift festival atmosphere online

    GonerFest, the internationally known purveyor of one of Memphis’ most famous exports, rock music, takes a step beyond livestreaming to replicate the intangibles that make each year’s event feel like a meeting place.

    By Jared Boyd September 24, 2020

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