Mercury News, California — Joe Jackson, Vince Gill, Neko Case, Hot Tuna, Boz Scaggs among the acts appearing at the festival. more info

Stereogum — Back in December 1994, Big Star’s Alex Chilton, Suicide’s Alan Vega, and Ben Vaughn got together for two nights at Dessau Studios in New York and recorded an album called Cubist Blues. The supergroup trio went on to perform only two shows, one at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Lucero's new album, All A Man Should Do, will be out September 18 via ATO and the band have shared another song from it, a cover of Big Star's "I'm in Love with a Girl." They recorded it at... more info

Stereogum — Steveland “Stevie Wonder” Morris is an indisputable icon of American music, but in many ways is best understood as a part of a separate tradition — that of the musical prodigy. Like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Earl Scruggs, and Alex Chilton before him... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis In August of 1975, the world's first punk record label was born. Ork Records: New York, New York is a tale of Terry Ork, a film-obsessed fugitive of Warhol's Factory set. Ork's impresario ear would pull damaged,... more info

Stereogum — The Shakespearean-named duo Those Pretty Wrongs comprises the Freewheelers’ Luther Russell and Jody Stephens, the former drummer and sole surviving founding member of Big Star. We’ve already heard the A-side to their debut 7″ on Burger Records,... more info

TMZ — "Couples Therapy" producers are striking while the transgender iron is hot -- on the high heels of Caitlyn Jenner's big announcement ... they're making Carmen Carrera a focal point of the show. Sources close to Carrera tell TMZ she and… more info

Perez Hilton — Who knew Angelina Jolie was such a Star Wars fan?? Angie was interviewing her Unbroken cast member Domhnall Gleeson for Interview magazine, and despite being forbidden from asking about his role in the upcoming The Force Awakens she HAD to prod! [ Ph... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Whitney is Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich. Having cut some chops with Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, they’ve now introduced their new project with “No Matter Where We Go.” Simple, mid-fi, summer grooving, emitting sparks of Big St... more info

Stereogum — Jody Stephens, the former drummer of Big Star, is the only founding member of that band who’s still alive. A few years ago, Stephens was asked to play some music at a few screenings of the documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, and he asked Lut... more info