In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released the previous year—titled “#1 ...
Big Star should have been famous. The Memphis group wrote power pop that foreshadowed alternative rock. The bands they inspired are some of the most successful in history. Bell left the band a bit ...
Big Star’s second album, Radio City, now 50, is a vivid portrait of tender and confusing young love, neatly documented in short power pop songs. “September Gurls” was the last song Big Star recorded ...
The Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC) will host concerts celebrating Big Star and the Grateful Dead. Big Star's last surviving member, Jody Stephens, will lead the Big Star Quintet on July 19.
Big Star co-founder Jody Stephens will play two Memphis concerts this summer. The first concert will feature Stephens' duo, Those Pretty Wrongs, at Crosstown Arts' The Green Room on June 27. The ...
Big Star's Radio City is getting a 50th anniversary tour. Their sophomore album will be played through in its entirety at each show, as performed by Jody Stephens (Big Star's sole surviving original ...
Members of REM, Wilco, Big Star, and more will all be in one room – The Lodge Room – this week to perform Big Star’s seminal sophomore album, Radio City. The Memphis rockers’ sole surviving member, ...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Big Star’s eponymous record Radio City, the group’s own Jody Stephens, alongside R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wilco’s Pat Sansone, the dB’s’ Chris Stamey, and the Posies’ ...
Terry Manning, a music producer and engineer who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Big Star, and ZZ Top, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 77. Just two weeks earlier, a jovial ...
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