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Big Star shines again in Nothing Can Hurt Me
Big Star shines again in the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me.
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New goodies from the vaults of Bakersfield country legend Buck Owens
Omnivore Recordings uncovers some previously unreleased treasures of Bakersfield-style country.
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Allen Ruppersberg’s back pages
In “No Time Left to Start Again,” conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg presents his own, chaotic history of rock.
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Short takes on recent reissues
Reissues of Feedtime’s four classic LPs, Alex Chilton’s first solo recordings, and Tav Falco’s debut with Panther Burns
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The Bad Bitches of South by Southwest
From the “return” of Hole to the paradigm-busting hip-hop of Thee Satisfaction
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The Season of Box Sets: Pop
New box sets by Big Star and Hall & Oates collect some of the most indelible melodies of the 70s and 80s.
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Alex Chilton/Ben Vaughn Combo
It’s easy to dismiss Columbia, the album documenting the University of Missouri concert last summer that brought Alex Chilton and drummer Jody Stephens back together. Posies Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer sat in to replace original bassist Andy Hummel, who wasn’t interested, and key Chilton songwriting partner Chris Bell, who died in a car accident […]
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Alex Chilton
Since Alex Chilton walks a thin tightrope between earnestness and sarcasm, poise and chaos, art and trash, rock and roll, he would make the perfect guest on the David Letterman show if Letterman were cool enough to ask him. Since he probably won’t, I’ll fill in with a top-ten list of Things to Expect at […]
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Alex Chilton
Lester Bangs said that the Velvet Underground “invented the 70s.” That’s an exaggeration–they’d have done a better job–but it’s no more of one to say that Alex Chilton invented the 80s a decade early. Stuck inside of Memphis with the downwardly mobile blues, Chilton turned from teenage Box Top to torrid iconoclast. His signature band, […]