The post Win a Copy of Wattstax: The Complete Concert 10xLP Vinyl Box Set appeared first on Consequence. Earlier this year, Stax Records and Craft Recordings proudly issued Wattstax: The Complete ...

On Aug. 20, 1972, the Wattstax Benefit Concert was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Organized by Stax Records and held in honor of the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots in Los ...

Seven years after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, Stax Records staged the Wattstax Benefit Concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Aug. 20, 1972, to mark the anniversary. Created in ...

The summer of 1972 was a decisive time for Raymond Shields. He’d just graduated from high school and was about to leave Los Angeles behind to study at Northwestern University. It was a summer of house ...

The concert documentary "Wattstax" was released 50 years ago this month. It featured Stax Records' entire roster at the time. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to James Alexander of the Bar-Kays. Los Angeles, ...

February ends with a jam-packed week of new music releases, including an immersive collection of Wattstax festival packages, new titles from Dierks Bentley, Godsmack, Gorillaz, Logic and Steel Panther ...

Los Angeles, 1972. On the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots, the soul and funk label Stax Records staged an enormous concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was called Wattstax. The ...