*Keyboardist Alex Bugnon made a rare west coast swing last week – one stop at Yoshi’s in northern California, and one stop at Spaghettini in southern California – the latter from which was culled the ...

In early 1966 the songwriting team of David Porter and Isaac Hayes found themselves inside the Stax Records recording studio on McLemore Avenue in Memphis. It was a little after 1:20 a.m. when the ...

When Jimi Hendrix played Woodstock, old friend Larry Lee played guitar beside him - but his contributions were scrubbed from ...

February, Senior Contributor Jeff Heilman had the opportunity to visit the world’s most sung-about city—Memphis, Tennessee—to ...

Memphis’ soul singer KJ Willis sang Steve Wonder's "Higher Ground" during the semifinals of "The Voice" on April 13.

As David Porter's new memoir, "The Soul Man," recounts, the Memphis native's life has been devoted to song. The Hall of Fame songwriter and Stax legend’s body of work includes some 1,700 songs that ...

Music and cinema have always gone hand in hand, going right back to the days of silent cinema and its orchestral accompaniments, but never has that relationship been quite as prosperous as within the ...

An Aussie brand has ignored calls to ban a racy activewear style, instead upping the ante with a new design some say “needs a R18+ warning”. “Scrunch bum” tights and shorts have long courted extreme ...

“Scrunch bum” tights and shorts have long courted extreme opinions, largely due to the fact the design features a narrow seam that runs along the curve of the bottom, pulling the fabric together to ...