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

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