Features
Tuesday, March 23 2010
December Boys: On Life and Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton spent his musical life testing the limits of his enormous gifts and the patience of his devoted fans. He was a conflicted artist, equally talented and mistrusting of his talents. Music came easily, so he made it harder.
Friday, March 19 2010
"I'm in Love with That Song": Remembering Alex Chilton
It's impossible with Chilton's music to not become personally engulfed; it's impossible to not feel an impenetrable attachment to it. The quintessential outsider, his music spoke to generations of fans who encapsulate those wrangled emotions.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Re-Issues of 2009
PopMatters presents our 20 best re-issues of 2009, highlighted by the long overdue remastering of the Beatles oeuvre, a number of '80s and '90s classics, and one of the most storied catalogues in electronic music.
Thursday, December 3 2009
Making a Case for the Most Underappreciated Band in Pop Music
Big Star may have long dwindled on the threshold of musical ubiquity and dangling obscurity, but it strangely seems like the only befitting legacy for artists so caught between their innate standing as pop music outsiders and their reverential, ever-striving will for superstardom.
Reviews
Monday, May 7 2012
Counting Crows: Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
Fifteen covers performed with as fine a sense of group interplay as you’ll find outside the jazz world.
Wednesday, October 5 2005
Big Star: In Space
The addition of ex-Posies members has actually succeeding in making Big Star sound more like the bands they influenced than either Number One Record or Radio City.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Big Star: Radio City
This recording may be the finest rock recording ever reduced to vinyl or CD.
Blogs
Wednesday, February 22 2012
Big Star Story to Debut at SXSW Next Month
The long-awaited Big Star documentary is set to have its debut next month at South by Southwest in Austin.
Wednesday, March 16 2011
The Top 5 Most Anticipated Music Documentaries
Music geeks are salivating at the prospect of these five upcoming music documentaries.
Tuesday, March 23 2010
The Replacements: In Love with Alex Chilton’s Song
I have to confess, I’m not too familiar with the musical oeuvre of the recently-passed Alex Chilton. Most of what I know about the late…
Thursday, March 18 2010
Rock Hard, Chilton
I'm very sad to read that Alex Chilton is dead. His music has given me as much comfort as just about anybody I can think…
Thursday, March 18 2010
Alex Chilton R.I.P. (1950 - 2010)
Man, the American rock and roll scene just got discernibly smaller. I’ll defer to the bigger Big Star fans (of whom there are many) to…
News
Thursday, March 18 2010
RIP Alex Chilton, American Music Man
AUSTIN, Texas — I was supposed to go out and hear some music. I didn't know if it would be some clanging revelation, a sound…
