Ira Kaplan

Gina Birch opened and Brittany Carney performed stand up, and other guests included The Bangles' Vicki Peterson and The Dream Syndicate‘s Steve Wynn.

Wednesday’s NYC-area shows include Beak>, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Iceage, La Dispute, and more.

”Enough. A Benefit Concert Supporting Gun Safety” happens on Wednesday at City Winery.

In addition to the songs of Big Star and Chris Bell, the tribute show also had Mike Mills singing REM's “Don't Go Back to Rockville.“

"The Songs of Big Star" concert features Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The Posies, The dB's and more.

Members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The Posies, The dB's and more will be part of an "The Songs of Big Star," a "one of a kind acoustic, orchestrated" tribute concert at Brooklyn's...

Stamey is known for power pop melodies with The dB's but this was an experimental, improvisational and impressionistic instrumental album based around "a severely detuned electric guitar, on a table, that is pounded and scrapped with a railroad spike."

Even if you don't know CJ Camerieri by name, you've probably heard his horn playing. He's a member of yMusic and he's played on records by Taylor Swift, Paul Simon, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, The National...

You can also watch the band, director Phil Morrison and Marshall Crenshaw talk about the making of the "Tom Courtenay" video. The 25th Anniversary edition of 'Electr-o-pura' is out in September.

In related news, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan joined Grateful Dead cover band High Time on stage in Brooklyn this past weekend and you can watch video here...