Aquarium Drunkard — 1975 was a strange time for rock & roll in Memphis. Big Star, the flagship band of Ardent Records, was kaput, and the label itself was in flux, tethered to the financial woes of its distributor, Stax. Following the tumultuous sessions that would even... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — In December, 1994, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn, and Alan Vega walked into Dessau Studio in Manhattan. They had only the vaguest idea of what might happen. There was a basic premise, that friends Vaughn and Chilton were going to “play the blues” with... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jody Stephens w/ End of Love, 2014 (photo via Conni Freestone) As mentioned, early '00s Americana/powerpop band End of Love are releasing a new album, Ghosts on the Radio, that features Big Star's Jody Stephens, Wilco's Nels Cline, Sonic Youth's... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — End of Love @ Stone Pony, 2014 (photo by Connie Freestone) Early-'00s Americana powerpop band End of Love reformed in 2013 and have been working on a new album titled Ghosts on the Radio which features Big Star's Jody Stephens... more info

Mercury News, California — Lee Ann Womack, Big Star’s Third, Sister Sparrow among the highlights at the 15h annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. more info

Mercury News, California — Catch Big Star's Third, T Bone Burnett and more at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco. more info

Mercury News, California — Big Star's Third, Paul Weller, Blind Boys of Alabama are among our top picks for the 2015 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. more info

Stereogum — Au Pair is a meeting of the minds between the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and the Old Ceremony’s Django Haskins. They met while participating in a Big Star tribute concert in 2013, and that band’s power-pop is a big part of Au Pair’s DNA. “In Eve... more info

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