Memphis Listening Lab

10/09/2026

We’re all set up at Mempho Fest! 🎶

Come find us in the Vinyl Lounge alongside our friends at Soul Town Supply and Memphis Record Pressing. Stop by, say hello, and check out what we’ve got!

And one more thing… we have a limited number of autographed Dave Schools posters from the other night’s event at MLL available for sale at our booth!

Go say hi to Chad. He’ll hook you up! 🤘


Mempho Music Festival
Memphis Record Pressing
Soul Town Supply Co

10/08/2026

Fun night!!

10/07/2026

This event is SOLD OUT. but this cool poster is for sale. Let us know if you want one.
And don’t miss Widespread Panic at Mempho Music Festival this weekend.

10/07/2026

October 29th. Join us for a unique listening session celebrating the life and work of Memphis’ own Jon Hassell. A trumpet player, composer and musical conceptualist, Jon Hassell’s career bisects a multitude of strands in the history of the avant-garde and the development of genuinely new forms of music. Having studied under Karl-Heinz Stockhausen in Cologne (alongside future members of the band Can), he played on the original recording of Terry Riley’s In C (1968), was part of La Monte Young’s Theatre Of Eternal Music and studied Kiranic singing with Pandit Pran Nath, all of which informed his own instrumental technique and treatment of the trumpet with various electronic effects. In 2018 the Ndeya label was set up by Jon in partnership with Warp Records as a home for his music. In the same year he released his first album in nine years, the widely acclaimed Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One). This was followed by his final studio album: Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) in 2020. Both albums are a remarkable curtain call from a true auteur, and regarded by fans and critics alike as a high watermark in what was already an astounding musical career. This series of albums is completed by Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three). Hosted by Jared Boyd, and presented by Ndeya in partnership with Memphis Listening Lab.

10/06/2026

Be here!

This Tuesday we’re having a Memphis Listening Lab party for the 3rd vinyl record from Turnstyles! 6pm. Come listen to the tracks on the best speakers in town, and then Friday at BAR DKDC we’re having a record release show at 8:30 with Hit Parade (feat. Jesse James Davis) and the great Arc of Quasar!

10/05/2026

Tuesday at 6pm we’re having a vinyl listening party at the Memphis Listening Lab for our 3rd record “T3.” It’s free and there will be a brief Q&A after the listen if anyone wants to ask any questions! Then this Friday at BAR DKDC we’ve got our record release show at 8:30pm w/ Hit Parade (feat. Jesse James Davis) and Arc of Quasar! 🏄🏽‍♂️ 🤘

09/21/2026

The Allman Brothers, Mid-South Coliseum, Fall ‘71: The End of the Beginning
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 6:30pm
Bob Beatty, PhD and Jeff Kollath, historians

On September 17, 1971, Duane Allman played one of his final shows in the South at Mid-South Coliseum. They arrived in Memphis on a high. At Fillmore East was burning up the charts. Six weeks later it all came crashing down. Just as the album reached Gold, Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident. Join historians Jeff Kollath and Bob Beatty, author of Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East, for a wide ranging conversation on the original band’s last year together, the final tour, and the legacy of Duane Allman

09/18/2026

Memphis Listening Lab will be closed Friday, September 18 for a private event.

Come see us Saturday — we’ll be back to our regular hours, 11–5. 🎶

09/11/2026

Listen Up! New Mary Hatley music. Don’t miss this listening event. Sept 30th. 6pm

09/10/2026

The Long Play #004: The Cure — Disintegration.

“I’ve never done it before, but on this album I was trying to imagine people listening to it.”

That was Robert Smith talking about Disintegration in 1989. He described it as a “bigger-sounding record” and said he wanted to take listeners aback with its intensity.

More than 35 years later, it still does.

Dark, romantic, atmospheric and enormous, Disintegration is built around mood and texture as much as individual songs. It’s also a record that comes alive on a great system — layers of guitars and synthesizers stretch across the room, the bass reaches surprisingly deep, and the sheer scale of the recording becomes part of the experience.

For The Long Play #004, we’ll hear Disintegration the way this series was made for: the complete album, on vinyl, uninterrupted, in the Sound Room.

Saturday, October 3 • 3 PM
The Sound Room at Memphis Listening Lab

Free admission. Limited seating. First come, first seated.

One record. Start to finish