Chorus.fm — The Dirty Nil have dropped the fourth installment in a series of cover sets, available on all streaming platforms today. You’re Welcome IV features covers of Big Star’s “September Gurls” and Harry Neilson’s “Without You.” more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Covering former Big Star guitarist Chris Bell's 1978 ballad "I Am the Cosmos," progressive art-rocker Eamon Fogarty manages to thread the needle, honoring the original's ache while also tearing it apart via a Sonny Sharrock-style free jazz freakout. ... more info

Stereogum — Los Angeles-based Sasami Ashworth played synths in Cherry Glazerr from 2015 until last year, when she left the band to pursue a solo career as SASAMI. Earlier this year, the Artist To Watch released her excellent self-titled debut. She returns today ... more info

Consequence of Sound — A look at the legacy of Big Star as Radio City celebrates 45 years of cult status. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Right as he finally began to be recognized as a proto-indie rock figurehead in the late eighties and early nineties, Alex Chilton found himself drifting toward the sounds of his youth. Right as people had begun clamoring for Big Star and the acerbic ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Mono's Nowhere Now Here, Sarah Louise's Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars, and William Tyler's Goes West are the albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week. Also available is a Big Star live performance. This week's interesting music releases: A... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to new songs by Alex Chilton, Martha, Julian Lynch, Insanity Alert, Sunwatchers, Tim Kinsella, Kevin Devine, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Aside from his cult icon status as the leader of the Box Tops and Big Star, Alex Chilton loved singing good ole classics right out of the Great American Songbook as taught to him by his jazz trumpeter father in the 1950s. The late rocker, who passed ... more info

JamBase — Big Star’s Jody Stephens and Smog’s Bill Callahan were guests at night five of this year’s annual 8 Nights Of Hanukkah With Yo La Tengo run at The Bowery Ballroom. more info

Stereogum — Disq are Isaac De Broux-Slone and Raina Bock, two extremely cool teenagers from Wisconsin who make neat, smart, Midwestern power-pop. The pair -- who count Weezer, Big Star, Todd Rundgren and the Beatles as influences -- released their first album in... more info