Brooklyn Vegan — The initial list of 2016 Cassette Store Day releases also include an Elliott Smith tribute, a Sire Records compilation on Burger Records, Xiu Xiu's 'Plays the Music of Twin Peaks' and more. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — Produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear. more info

Stereogum — Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym used by Athens, Georgia musician Kaoru (or “K”) Ishibashi. The project came to prominence with the release of Kishi Bashi’s cultishly proselytized 2012 debut LP, 151a, which was preceded by a 2011 EP and followed by... more info

Uncut — Big Star - Isolated In The Light will be released in October Big Star - Isolated In The Light will be released in October The post New book featuring rare and unseen Big Star photographs to be published appeared first on Uncut. more info

Guardian Music — Guitarist, record producer and songwriter who co-wrote The Dark End of the Street and worked with Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Tammy WynetteIf Chips Moman had done nothing more than revive the becalmed recording career of Elvis Presley in the l... more info

Stereogum — The last we heard from the Sidekicks was in 2015, when the band released their album Runners In The Nerved World. Over the weekend, the Sidekicks debuted a cover of Big Star’s “I Am The Cosmos.” It’s a stripped-down, acoustic rendition that n... more info

Stereogum — Those Pretty Wrongs are a folk duo consisting of Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and Freewheelers leader Luther Russell. They’re about to release their self-titled debut, from which we’ve heard the twinkling “Lucky Guy,” the jangling followup ... more info

Stereogum — An all-star cast of musicians including Big Star’s Jody Stephens, Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone of Wilco, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, Jessica Pratt, the Kronos Quartet, Robyn Hitchcock, and late-era Big Star members Ken Stringf... more info

Consequence of Sound — Star-studded tribute featured performances of "Kizza Me", "Take Care", and "Femme Fatale". more info

Popdose — When Burger Records released the “Lucky Guy”/”Fool Of Myself” single last year, I was thrilled to share it with you here.  Now, the first official video from the upcoming self-titled debut album is here as well. If you don’t know, Those Pr... more info