Eight classic '90s underground Memphis rap records, including one by Skinny Pimp, were among the titles released by Now-Again Records in 2025. After the success of 2023’s “The Story of Memphis Rap” ...

Memphis can lay claim to playing a significant and in some cases crucial role in just about every type of American popular music. But, as the Memphis tourism bureau is happy to remind visitors, the ...

In advance of the band’s participation in an international blues competition in January in Memphis, Tennessee, the Capital ...

On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Blues Foundation will be hosting a Hologram Interactive exhibit - only the second in one in the nation - beginning in May. The exhibit promises to offer visitors a ...

In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop the ...

Jad Tariq is a 28-year-old guitarist and vocalist whose debut album, "Jad Tariq Sings...", will be released on March 7. Tariq's music is influenced by a variety of genres, including R&B, jump blues, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Blues mainstays Buddy ...

Steve Cropper was among the most influential writers, producers, and guitarists in the world of R&B and Southern Soul.

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Steve Cropper, whose unmistakable guitar work and songwriting shaped soul music, died Wednesday in Nashville at the age of 84 ...