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The New Stax X Kic Collab Is Here And I’ll Have What Steph Claire Smith & Laura Henshaw Are Having

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"Inspirational": Steve Cropper is a sublimely understated presence with The Midnight Hour on Friendlytown

Stax legend Steve Cropper fires up the protest soul

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Edifier Stax Spirit S5 review: audio quality stacks up, lack of ANC falls down

Planar magnetic headphones deliver stunning sound quality, if you can cope with the lack of ANC and the high asking price

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“I get accused of not learning more – but I’m not one of those guys. I could learn anything if I wanted to, but I just let it go as it is”: Steve Cropper on recording classic Stax cuts with a Telecaster – and why he thinks his Peavey sounds better

The Stax session icon reflects on the recording of Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay and Soul Man, and looks forward to his new album featuring Billy Gibbons and Brian May

Guitar World

‘It became a beacon of hope’: the incredible story of Stax Records

A new docuseries traces the highs and lows of the Memphis record label, soaring with major acts like Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes but a victim of both capitalism and racism

The Guardian - US

"I don't read no charts and I don't do no numbers": As Bobby Whitlock prepares to be honoured in Memphis, he looks back at Derek and the Dominos and his impact on UK music

Bobby Whitlock will be honoured today on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis

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New on HBO and Max in May 2024 — all the new shows and movies to watch

HBO and Max this May have some exciting content planned, with boxing film 'The Iron Claw' and sports filling the lineup.

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"Songwriting for me, at the time of Rubber Soul, was a bit frightening because John and Paul had been writing since they were three years old": How The Beatles raised their game in 1965 to create a masterpiece that "broke everything open"

The Beatles' sixth album Rubber Soul was a colossal creative leap and marked the point at which albums began to be viewed as works of real artistic merit

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“Paul McCartney was one of my favorite bass players. I didn’t do him justice”: Paying tribute to the Beatles turned out to be a humbling experience for Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn

As a member of Booker T. and the MGs, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn cut an instrumental version of the Beatles’ Abbey Road. But the experience wasn't all that satisfying...

Guitar World

Jean Knight obituary

Soul singer who had a multimillion-selling hit in 1971 with the irresistibly funky Mr Big Stuff

The Guardian - UK

“What you don’t play is as important as what you do play. You need the space, as it makes the small things that you do seem bigger”: 5 questions with McKinley James

The soul/blues/rock ’n’ roll aficionado on how he fills out a duo – and why guitarists using pedals to replicate classic sounds are “shooting themselves in the foot”

Guitar World

Edifier Stax Spirit S3 & WH950NB review: Premium headphones with fantastic audio

Edifier's latest headphones feature planar magnetic technology, which pretty much guarantees great audio

Daily Mirror

Edifier Stax Spirit S3 review: maybe the best-sounding wireless headphones you can get

Edifier's Stax Spirit 3 planar magnetic over-ear wireless headphones marry detail, bass clout and musicality – and if that's all the matters to you, they're a great shout.

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Custom Flying Vs, strange open tunings and massive bends: how Albert King created his own strain of the blues – and inspired Hendrix, Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan

A left-hander, King flipped a right-handed guitar upside down, put it in an unorthodox tuning, and forged a style steeped in steely drama and epic bends

Guitar World

Watch Donald “Duck” Dunn as Booker T and the MGs blow minds in Norway in 1967

On 7 April 1967, the Stax/Volt Revue hit Europe. Norwegian TV caught them in action in Oslo. What’s Norwegian for “locked in”?

The Guardian - US

‘It was an out of body experience’: looking back at the Wattstax music festival

In 1972, the largely Black community of Watts came together for a giant music event from Stax Records, captured in a thrilling, re-released documentary

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Jim Stewart obituary

American producer and executive who co-founded Stax Records in the late 1950s

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies at age 92

The white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player co-founded the influential record label with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful "Memphis sound."

The Independent UK

Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92

The Guardian - UK

Jim Stewart, founder of Stax Records, dies aged 92

Record producer signed many of soul and R&B’s most influential musicians, including Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes

The Independent UK

Booker T. Jones performs at Stax, ahead of milestone

A performance by master keyboardist Booker T

The Guardian - UK

Mable John obituary

First female singer signed to Motown whose later hit for Stax, Your Good Thing, became a classic of deep soul

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Influencer’s Event Shut Down By WA Police Due To Uncontrollable Crowds Collapsing Fans

The event was held at STAX store in Perth's CBD.

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