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 phenomenon after being featured in a hit 2000s sitcom.

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 ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed indoor dining, Wicker Park hot spot Big Star expanded on its already spacious outdoor patio by adding a tent in front with seating for about 120. It wound up being so ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

During the summer months, the patio at Big Star near Wicker Park is one of the most coveted spots in Chicago. Servers weave in and out of the giant lot that’s peppered with silver tables and yellow ...

A band that has lived on via different all-star tours since the death of frontman Alex Chilton in 2010, the highly influential Memphis rock quartet Big Star is being celebrated again with its only ...