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A Band Meandering Down Memory Lane

Where was Alex Chilton on Wednesday night? At the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, he was onstage, more or less, standing at the far right, sometimes even near his microphone .

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Related Topix: Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Pop/Rock, Music, Arts, Entertainment

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Boston Globe

Music gift guide -- Box sets

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "Live Anthology'' Some bands are studio titans while others are kings of the road.

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Related Topix: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pop/Rock, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Music, Entertainment

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Nashville Scene

Holiday Guide: Please Your Friends and Fam With These Swingin' Sets; Box Sets, That Is

Anyone who picked up this past week's dead-tree edition knows that it was our annual holiday guide --our all-encompassing reference book for what to get those omnipresent jerks in your life known as friends and family.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Jesus Lizard

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Village Voice

Live: Big Star At Brooklyn Masonic Temple

This show seems half-assed in a way that everyone is frankly really pleased with, most of all Alex Chilton, of course, a blithely nonchalant power-pop deity loping amiably through a clutch of '70s hits with the aid of a couple '90s alt-rockish power-pop dudes who deified him at a late 2009 show at a Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, ostensibly to promote ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Jon Auer, New York, Music, Entertainment

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Phoenix New Times

Big Star Box and Deluxe Reissue of Alum Chris Bell's Lone Solo Effort are Pop Treasures

The mighty Big Star in their original early 1970s incarnation. L-R: Jody Stephens, Chris Bell, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Replacements, The Posies

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Buffalo News

Club Chatter: The Box Tops at the Bear's Den, Baroness at the Tralf

Chilton, to the letter "A song like 'Soul Deep' is obvious enough, a patented commercial sound, yet within these strictures it communicates with a depth and sincerity of feeling that holds the attention and brings you back often." That's the late, great rock critic Lester Bangs, waxing enthusiastic - and surprisingly lucid - regarding the ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Box Tops, Joe Cocker, Entertainment

JamBase

The Mother Hips: Breathing Differently

Hovering on the verge of their 20th anniversary, The Mother Hips have just released their seventh studio effort, Pacific Dust , and, to the surprise of no one who's spent a little time with their work, it's another end-to-end pop-rock jewel.

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Related Topix: Dust, Pop/Rock, The Records, October, Badfinger, Vail, CO

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Nashville Scene

Holiday Guide 2009: Please the audiophile and the square alike with these swingin' sets

We all know how daunting - nay, obnoxious - it can be to find holiday gifts for the listener who has nearly everything.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Jesus Lizard

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Village Voice

Big Star

In Space , these Memphis power-pop legends' overdue studio follow-up to 1978's revered Third/Sister Lovers , didn't exactly convince anyone that the Big Star magic was still alive.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Jon Auer

Thu Nov 12, 2009

North Coast Journal Weekly Politics

Keep an Eye on the Sky

The term, "Memphis Curse," was bantered around quite a bit amongst musician friends when I resided there for three years in the 1990s.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Daily Candy

Music to Your Ears

You've heard the Big Star commotion. The boys are at it again, this time with a honky-tonk taqueria in the old Pontiac space opening Monday.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Nashville Scene

Star & Micey at Cafe Coco

Memphis' Ardent Records has resurfaced with a little buzz lately after releasing a Big Star box set and reissuing Chris Bell 's I Am the Cosmos .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tower Records

Keep an Eye On the Sky

To sample an individual track, click the [>] button located beside your desired song.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Art Voice

I Want A Witness. I Want To Testify.

How a local writer and music aficionado uncovered the story of rock's foremost cult band and their masterpiece album It's as if all of the music coming out of all the little transistor radio speakers - Beatles, Stones, Byrds, Beach Boys, Sam and Dave, Fifth Dimension, Lovin' Spoonful, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Supremes, Young Rascals, Sonny ...

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Related Topix: Soul, Sam & Dave, Dimension, Jazz, Pop/Rock, The Byrds, Questionmark and the Mysterians, The Four Tops

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Memphis Flyer

Still Active

The brainchild of Shangri-La Projects' Sherman Willmott, the Memphis Pops Festival also will be free this year as part of the downtown Alley Jams series.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, R.E.M., Sneakers, New York, Let's Active, Alternative-Rock, Game Theory

Sat Oct 31, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

The Record Doctor responds

After years of dealing with celebrity patients, Observer Music Monthly's Record Doctor has extended his working hours and opened his clinic to all-comers. Here are his latest responses to your queries The Record Doctor is in.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Sheaf

FROM the VAULT: Big Star

While being interviewed some time in the mid a 60s, Pete Townsend of the Who coined the term a oepower pop.a He was trying to describe his banda s sound: a shotgun marriage of raucous guitar clang and sweet flowing melody .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 28, 2009

City Paper

December Boys

As you listen to Keep an Eye on the Sky , the excellent new Big Star box set from Ardent/Rhino, you can hear Alex Chilton giving up.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Public Relations, Music, Entertainment

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Lost In Translation

Big Star Radio City 33 1/3

Bruce Eatona s book length essay about Big Stara s second album Radio City for the 33 1/3 series seems to have placed accuracy above all in the story of this recording.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 22, 2009

The Victoria Star

Tennessee band comes about by chance

Approximately 212 miles lie between two very different worlds within the State of Tennessee.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

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