The small room in Memphis's old bread factory punches at every weight. The 1884 Lounge, inside the Minglewood Hall complex at 1555 Madison Avenue in Midtown, is the 400-capacity sibling of the 1,700-plus main hall - the intimate stage where rising touring acts and the city's own talent play before they graduate next door. Live music can run up to seven nights a week between the two rooms. The building began life in the 1920s as the Tasty Bread factory; the venue conversion opened for concerts i.....

A downtown landmark in Memphis, AutoZone Park is a celebrated ballpark that opened in 2000 as the home of the Memphis Redbirds, the Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. Widely praised on its debut as one of the finest minor-league baseball stadiums in the country, it anchored a wave of downtown revitalisation and quickly became a cherished gathering place for the city's sports fans. The stadium holds around ten thousand spectators and was designed with an old-fashioned, fan-friendly i.....

Memphis replaced the hall where Elvis played with a room tuned note by note. The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts at 255 North Main Street opened in January 2003 on the site of the Ellis Auditorium, the 1924 civic hall that hosted Elvis Presley, Baryshnikov and seventy years of Memphis gatherings before closing in 1996 and falling to the wreckers in 1999 - though dozens of Ellis seats and its terra cotta medallions were salvaged into the new building's east concourse. Named for the Bob and .....

It stands a block from Beale Street on ground where W. C. Handy heard the blues take shape, and its arena bowl honours that inheritance with a music-note motif worked through the building. FedExForum, at 191 Beale Street in downtown Memphis, opened in September 2004 as the most expensive arena of its era in the region - a 250-million-dollar, publicly financed home built to secure the Grizzlies' move from Vancouver. The arena seats about 17,800 for basketball and up to 19,000 for concerts, with .....

The brewery took its name from Memphis's basketball identity - the Grit and Grind Grizzlies - and built its taproom in the Uptown district with a skyline view to match. Grind City Brewing Company, at 76 Waterworks Avenue just north of downtown Memphis, opened in 2021 and has grown into one of the city's flagship craft breweries and outdoor music spots. The operation fills a renovated industrial site: a production brewery turning out flagship lagers, IPAs, fruited sours and seasonal runs; a spac.....

The White Stripes played this club's original room; the Yeah Yeah Yeahs passed through before the fame; and when the landlord ended the lease, the venue simply picked up its name and moved the scene with it. The Hi-Tone, now at 282-284 North Cleveland Street in Memphis's Crosstown district, has been the city's indispensable indie rock club since 1998. Jonathan Kiersky opened the original Hi-Tone Cafe that year at 1913 Poplar Avenue, in the former karate studio where Kang Rhee trained Elvis Pres.....

On legendary Beale Street, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame celebrates the extraordinary roster of artists who made the city one of the most influential musical capitals in the world. Established to honour the inductees recognised since 2012, the museum gathers its galleries on the street where the blues took root, paying tribute to the performers, songwriters and producers whose work in Memphis shaped blues, soul, rock and roll, gospel and beyond. The exhibits blend memorabilia with storytelling.....

Created by the Smithsonian Institution, the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum tells the story of how the music of the Mississippi Delta and the city of Memphis transformed the world. Opened in 2000 and located beside the arena at the foot of Beale Street, it was the Smithsonian's first museum project developed outside Washington, the result of years of research into the social and cultural forces that gave rise to a musical revolution. The museum's narrative begins not with stars but with soil, trac.....

A bread factory, a music store and a church all lived in the building before the amps moved in. Minglewood Hall, at 1555 Madison Avenue in Midtown Memphis, opened in February 2009 as the mid-sized concert venue the city had lacked for decades - bigger than the New Daisy Theatre, smaller than the Orpheum. The development was a local bet: The DeHart Group bought the former Strings and Things building in 2007 for 1.7 million dollars and sank five to six million into Minglewood Plaza, a mixed-use p.....

Huntsville's live-music boom is getting its mid-size room from the people who built its amphitheater. Satellite Music Hall, rising at MidCity District off University Drive, is a 2,500-capacity indoor venue from Huntsville Venue Group - the operators of the Orion Amphitheater - scheduled to open in 2026. The project fills the documented gap in the Rocket City's venue ladder: between clubs like SideTracks and the 8,000-seat Orion there has been no modern general-admission hall, forcing mid-level .....