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 [...]
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 [...]
Legendary supergroup Golden Smog recently played back-to-back shows at Minneapolis’ The Fine Line April 15th and 16th. Jody Stephens appeared with the band for the first time in years. The band’s lineup for the two shows was Gary Louris, Kraig Johnson, Dan Murphy, Marc Perlman and Stephens along with some special guests. Check out some [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
