Big Star drummer and our own Ardent Studios manager, Jody Stephens, was recently featured in “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School,” a blog series by Karen Booth where she interviews rock legends about their high school experience in general as well as with music. You can check it out over at Booth’s blog here. Hope you [...]
Head on over to the store and buy the new 7″ from Big Star with John Davis. Click the other link below to check out the product and listen to the tracks. By the way, the first 1,000 people to buy will get a full album download card with the vinyl…the mp3′s are high quality [...]
The release date has been set for the Big Star Live EP – June 21st! It’ll be available here in our store. Check out Big Star drummer Jody Stephens’ rundown of the release and our promo video for the EP and below. Also, there’s some press links we’ve come across already. “For our last performance [...]
We’re releasing a 3-song vinyl EP of Big Star’s performance with John Davis from last year’s live tribute to Alex Chilton. The show took place at the historic Levitt Shell here in Memphis and had many special guests, including Mike Mills (REM), Sondre Lerche, Brendan Benson, Andy Hummel, and many others. The band did three [...]
Big Star just played some shows across the pond in The Netherlands. The three-piece was joined by Dutch musician/producer/Big Star fan JB Meijers along with some special guests. Here are the dates: April 3 – Dutch Radio One – Acoustic performance and interview April 5 – Eindhoven, NL – Frits Philips April 6 – The [...]
The biggest blog in indie rock has named their top 100 tracks of the year, and a cover of Big Star’s “Blue Moon” from 3rd/Sister Lovers by Sweden’s Kendal Johansson. Read more about the cover here (scroll down a little to #53). We’re glad Big Star continues to get some love in modern form!
The Levitt Shell Foundation has announced it’s final lineup of guests for the Big Star show in Memphis’ own Overton Park on May 15th, 2010. The guests include: Andy Hummel (Big Star), Mike Mills (REM), Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs), Sondre Lerche, Amy Speace, Susan Marshall, Van Duren, and Tommy Hoehn. Star & Micey will open [...]
Star & Micey had a great time down in Austin, TX for this years South by Southwest music festival. They played the official Memphis Music showcase at Barbarella and additional sets at the Memphis Music Foundation booth in the Austin Convention Center. Below is a video of the guys performing a new song called “Jesus [...]
I recently took a trip to NYC with my girlfriend and it was incredible to walk past some of the hippest record stores and see the Big Star “Keep An Eye On The Sky” box set sitting there in the windows. And a couple weeks back, Josh Cosby of Star & Micey was by the [...]
As you probably have noticed by now, Big Star played the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. Just before the show a small party of us had dinner at a cozy little neighborhood restaurant called Olea. Very nice to spend some time there with Lori, Kenny and Joe of the band Super 400. [...]
