Big Star

Remembrance Rock 

If He Was From Venus: Alex Chilton at 75

December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, A Man Called Destruction, Alex Chilton, Big Star, Memphis, Tennessee, The Box Tops, The Cramps, The Replacements

Celebrating the life of a Memphis rock icon

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

Big Star’s Radio City is Classic Rock Nirvana

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 Ted Miller 1 Comment 1974, 50th anniversary, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, Ardent Records, Ardent Studios, Big Star, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, Memphis, Radio City, September Gurls, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Monkees

Why the Memphis band’s second album remains such a timeless treasure

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

The Small Square Return with Ours & Others

January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 Ron Hart 2 Comments 2023, Badfinger, Big Star, Chris Bell, Farm to Label Records, John Richardson, Ours & Others, Paul Chastain, Pete Ham, The Small Square, The Velvet Crush, Tommy Keene

An exclusive chat with band members Paul Chastain and John Richardson

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Pop Power Pop Rock 

It’s A Brand New Day for the Bay City Rollers

October 9, 2023February 19, 2024 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 2023, Badfinger, Bay City Rollers, Big Star, Brand New Day, Elevator, Johnny McLaughlin, Les McKeown, Rod Stewart, Scotland, Shoes, Stuart "Woody" Wood, The Nerves, The Records, The Rubinoos

Talking with Woody about the group’s wonderous new single

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Indie Rock Pop Rock 

Car Man: An Interview with Chris Stamey

August 15, 2023August 15, 2023 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments Alex Chilton, Big Star, Car Records, Chris Stamey, Don Dixon, Gene Holder, Mitch Easter, Peter Holsapple, Poco, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Great Escape, Will Rigby

Chatting with an American indie pop hero about his fab new LP The Great Escape

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Pop Power Pop Rock 

Thank You Friends: Big Star’s Third / Sister Lovers at 45

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 David Richman 2 Comments 1978, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, Big Star, Chris Bell, Jim Dickinson, Jody Stephens, John Fry, Sister Lovers, The Replacements, Third

An exclusive interview with the band’s sole surviving member Jody Stephens

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Pop Power Pop Soul 

ALBUMS: Alex Chilton’s Boogie Shoes

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, Al Green, Alex Chilton, Ann Peebles, Big Star, Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street, O.V. Wright, Omnivore Recordings, Otis Clay, Syl Johnson, The Box Tops, Willie Mitchell

Flanked by the legendary Hi Records rhythm section, the Box Tops/Big Star boss found his groove on this rediscovered 1999 concert album

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adblock Experimental Folk Rock 

Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century: 100 Years of Popular Music, Renewed and Reinvented 

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Big Star, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chumbawamba, Crowded House, Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel's 20th Century, The Beatles, The Spice Girls

An exclusive chat with the American folk legend about his ambitious salute to pop’s first hundred years

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Alternative Rock Power Pop Rock 

Pump Up The Volume: Stands For Decibels at 40

February 19, 2021February 20, 2021 Jim Caligiuri 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Alex Chilton, Big Star, CBGB, Chris Stamey, Gene Holder, Hurrah’s, Irving Plaza, Maxwell's, Peter Holsapple, The dB's, the Mudd Club, Will Rigby

An exclusive chat with The dB’s about their classic debut album

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Pop Power Pop Remembrance 

Fountains of Wayne Were a Modern Day Lennon/McCartney

April 7, 2020April 6, 2020 Ryan Maffei 5 Comments Adam Schlesinger, Big Star, Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne, Jody Porter, RIP, Shoes, The dB's, The Go-Betweens, Utopia Parkway, Welcome Interstate Managers

Adam Schlesinger had a lot of collaborators — but none brought out his best like Chris Collingwood

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Power Pop 

Big Star: Space Is The Place

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Luci Turner 0 Comments 2005, AFGHAN WHIGS, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, Big Star, Chris Bell, In Space, Jody Stephens, Omnivore Recordings, Primal Scream, R.E.M.

An exclusive chat with Jody Stephens about the Memphis rock band’s newly expanded 2005 comeback LP

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Power Pop 

ALBUMS: COME ON LET’S GO! Power Pop Gems From The ‘70s and ‘80s (Big Beat/Ace)

August 7, 2019August 8, 2019 David Bash 2 Comments 20/20, Big Beat/Ace, Big Star, Come on Let's Go! Power Pop Gems from the '70s and '80s, Dave Burke, Dwight Tilley Band, Flamin' Groovies, Raspberries, Shoes, The Romantics, The Rooks, The Rubinoos, The Secrets, The Toms, The Tweeds

New compilation highlights material from acts in the power pop multi-verse both obvious and obscure

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jazz Rock 

That Crazy Mood

February 11, 2019February 13, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Alex Chilton, Big Star, Chet Baker, The Box Tops

Alex Chilton goes to cool school

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Pop Rock 

Big Star: We Get What We Deserve

January 18, 2019November 21, 2019 Bill Kopp 1 Comment Big Star, Omnivore Recordings, WLIR

A look at the Memphis power pop icons’ Live on WLIR

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New Wave Pop Rock 

If You’re Happy That’s Where You Belong

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Bill Kopp 0 Comments Big Star, Omnivore Recordings, Van Duren

A rare chat with unsung Memphis rock luminary Van Duren

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