The Memphis soul label Stax/Volt will issue two comprehensive box sets of the singles it released in the late Sixties through the mid-Seventies for the first time digitally. The box sets, which ...
Dave Hoekstra heads to 926 McLemore Avenue in Memphis, home of the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy, an after-school and summer music academy dedicated to music education and soul appreciation. He ...
In 1967, Stax Records sent its top artists on a first-ever tour of Europe, which became known as the legendary Stax/Volt European Tour. Now, to recognize the 50th anniversary of the milestone event ...
75-Minute Concert from Legendary European Tour Includes Performances by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T & the MGs, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd and the Mar-Keys LOS ANGELES, Calif. - To celebrate the ...
Stax Records defined the "Memphis Sound" of soul music in the 1960s. With a roster that took in Otis Redding, Booker T & The MGs, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas and Isaac Hayes, Stax and its sister label ...
Kelly Clarkson comes off her TV perch to release a set of new material this week, joined by releases from Jake Owen, Portugal. The Man, the Strokes’ Albert Hammond, the Police’s Stewart Copeland and ...
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., a four-part docuseries now streaming on Max, tells the story of the record label that integrated its business practices and personnel in the recording studio when its hometown ...
In 1957, a full-time banker and part-time fiddler by the name of Jim Stewart started a little homespun record company called Satellite, cutting local country and rockabilly acts. A few years later, ...