The dBs

Big Star drummer Jody Stephens will be joined by Chris Stamey (dB's), Mike Mills (REM), Jon Auer (Posies) and Pat Sansone to play ‘#1 Record‘ in full on six East Coast dates this fall...

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.“

“What we have here are home and field recordings of the dB’s,” says the band's Peter Holsapple. “Most of these tracks predate the release of ’Stands for deciBels’ by two to three years.“

"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."

As mentioned, a whole bunch of North Carolina artists have contributed cover songs to a new compilation benefiting long-running Carrboro, NC rock club Cat's Cradle. You can also hears tracks from Hiss Golden Messenger, Sarah Shook, The dB's and more.

Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, The dB's, Hiss Golden Messenger, Don Dixon & Marti Jones, Erich Bachmann (Archers of Loaf), and more North Carolina artists have contributed cover songs to a new benefit comp that aims to help much-loved, long-running Carrboro, NC rock club Cat's Cradle through COVID-19.

”I didn’t want this to sound like ’acoustic demos recorded 25 years after the fact’ or a band trying to ’rock out’ except on acoustic guitars, though to be fair we do some rocking out.” - Superchunk's Mac McCaughan.

The Dream Syndicate celebrated the release of their new album ’These Times’ with two intimate shows at Mercury Lounge. Both shows were opened by Stephen McCarthy of The Long Ryders...