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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush boxed set, on Omnivore Recordings, won Best Historical Album at the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards (BMAs), held at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis on May 11.

New Book & Box Set to Detail Short, Brilliant Career of Big Star's Chris Bell: Exclusive Chapter & Song Premiere. The mythology and iconography around the late Alex Chilton is so strong that his Big Star co-founder Chris Bell sometimes gets short shrift. But this year Omnivore Recordings is taking some significant steps toward giving the incredibly gifted Bell his due.

Congratulations to the boxed set producers: Bobby Rush, Cheryl Pawelski, Cary Baker & Jeff DeLia.

Omnivore Recordings’ Cheryl Pawelski worked for a decade piecing together Big Star’s Complete Third. Interview from North Shore News.

New York Times 2016 Holiday Gift Guide present ideas, from technology to home goods, to make shopping easy this season.

Judy Henske & Jerry Jester Celebrating Farewell Aldebaran at the Grammy Museum, Thursday, August 11 2016 at 8pm.

It’s not that Emitt Rhodes was ever fully forgotten, but nearly 43 years between albums is a long time to remember. The Los Angeles singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns after an absence of more than four decades with “Dog on a Chain,” the first song from Rainbow Ends, his first album since 1973. The track premieres today on Speakeasy.

In an eventful lifespan that lasted just over a decade, the Continental Drifters created a relatively small but consistently magnificent recorded legacy, while playing live shows that generated treasured you-had-to-be-there memories for just about anyone who ever saw the band perform.

Pugwash Banishes Negativity on "Kicking And Screaming."

The Continental Drifters emerged from the fertile L.A. pop scene of the 1980s and '90s, an ad hoc band of musicians mostly moonlighting from their “day bands,” to collaborate in a free-form environment at Raji’s nightclub in Hollywood.