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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 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 ...

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 ...

I suppose I’m nitpicking, because I think every Big Star fan will enjoy Nothing Can Hurt Me. And actually, that almost unconditional adoration for the band—from fans, from critics, from musicians—is a ...

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.

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 ...