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 building's first musical claim is not a band at all: it housed the karate studio of Kang Rhee, the master who trained Elvis Presley to his black belt. Growlers, at 1911 Poplar Avenue across from Overton Park in Midtown Memphis, occupies the space that later became the Hi-Tone Cafe - one of the most storied rooms in Memphis rock history - and has carried the corner's live-music torch since 2017. The Hi-Tone made the address nationally famous in the late 1990s and 2000s: the White Stripes, a .....

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 30 July 1954, a truck driver named Elvis Presley opened for Slim Whitman on this stage - a show many historians count as the first rock and roll concert. The Overton Park Shell, at 1928 Poplar Avenue in Memphis's Overton Park, is a 1936 WPA bandshell that survived five demolition attempts to become one of America's most storied free concert venues. The build was Depression-era civic ambition: the City of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration raised the shell in 1936 for 11,935 dollar.....

The oldest and largest art museum in Tennessee, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has welcomed visitors since 1916, when it opened as a gift to the city in the leafy surroundings of Overton Park. Founded in memory of a local patron and housed in an elegant Beaux-Arts building that has been expanded over the decades, the museum has long served as the cultural anchor of its park setting and a cornerstone of the city's artistic life. Its permanent collection spans more than five thousand years of h.....

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.....