A half-century after Memphis power-pop band Big Star released their first three studio albums, their music has entered the rock canon through a kind of trapdoor that connects classic rock with indie ...

The Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC) will host concerts celebrating Big Star and the Grateful Dead. Big Star's last surviving member, Jody Stephens, will lead the Big Star Quintet on July 19.

Big Star should have been famous. The Memphis group wrote power pop that foreshadowed alternative rock. The bands they inspired are some of the most successful in history. Bell left the band a bit ...

Big Star’s second album, Radio City, now 50, is a vivid portrait of tender and confusing young love, neatly documented in short power pop songs. “September Gurls” was the last song Big Star recorded ...

It’s easy to look somewhat cynically at these types of anniversary tribute shows, perhaps even calling them cash-ins or the like, but that would be greatly missing the mark were it to be applied ...

Fans are still falling in love with this song over half a century later.

In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released the previous year—titled “#1 ...

When Jody Stephens and Chris Stamey put together a new version of Big Star two years ago, the quintet was a new group. And yet the band, which also includes Pat Sansone (Wilco), Jon Auer (Posies), and ...

Big Star's Radio City is getting a 50th anniversary tour. Their sophomore album will be played through in its entirety at each show, as performed by Jody Stephens (Big Star's sole surviving original ...

Members of REM, Wilco, Big Star, and more will all be in one room – The Lodge Room – this week to perform Big Star’s seminal sophomore album, Radio City. The Memphis rockers’ sole surviving member, ...