Big Star

One of the most criminally overlooked, even by the clichéd standards, the band Big Star truly defined the tragic indie band's aura. Read More

The statement, usually ascribed to Peter Buck of REM, that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's albums in the 1960s — but every one of them started a band — also holds true for a Southern band whose albums in the 1970s sold even fewer copies, but whose posthumous reputation is just as large. Read More

Big Star founder Chris Bell, like his band, is an enigma whose mystery has endured even as his details have been dispensed in retrospective bits and pieces. Read More

Sometimes, a celebrity musician can be like a designer handbag. Read More

The answer to that question has only now become a little bit clearer with Rhino's deluxe reissue of Chris Bell's I Am the Cosmos . Read More

"I fell into a burning ring of fire..............." Read More

DALLAS , Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Big Star Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: BMGI) (the "Company") today announced the new members of its Board of Directors and the new management team elected and appointed over the past ninety days. Read More

On April 13, 2004, a trio of balding forty-somethings—one an obscure film score composer, one a magician, each of them unrecognizable to the general American public—performed at a small club in Minneapolis. Read More