The Big Star Quintet, featuring members of R.E.M., Wilco, the Posies and the dB's alongside original drummer Jody Stephens, ...

America took its very rhythm from Memphis: birthplace of rock'n'roll, hotbed of blues and gospel, crucible of southern soul and once home to Sun, Stax, Hi and American Sound Studio. Yet one strain of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty-four years ago, '70s rock band Big Star created "In the Street," a song that would go from a commercial flop to a cultural ...

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. The album’s defining masterpiece is “September Gurls,” ...

Big Star never sold many records when it mattered, but five decades later its songs are packing a room at the Fillmore. The ...

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 ...

Big Star co-founder Jody Stephens will play two Memphis concerts this summer. The first concert will feature Stephens' duo, Those Pretty Wrongs, at Crosstown Arts' The Green Room on June 27. The ...

A few charter members include R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, The Replacements' Paul Westerberg and Lincoln's own Matthew Sweet. The Bangles should be on the list too. Dozens of groups, whether they know it or ...

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 ...

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.

If End of Love is not on your radar, that’s perfectly understandable. The power pop/Americana trio earned a small following for its club performances in the early ’00s but didn’t stay together long ...