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Bar/None Records Deliver Important Entries Expanding Alex Chilton’s Legacy and Catalog

Richard Driver / 23 April 2019

The exploration of Alex Chilton's recording career and legacy is expanded by Bar/None Records' dual release of From Memphis to New Orleans and Songs from Robin Hood Lane.

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Lost Memphis Music Legend Van Duren Getting His Due With New Documentary (premiere)

PopMatters Staff / 27 September 2018

Obscure even by Big Star standards Van Duren's legacy is one of heartbreak and setback. But as a new film and soundtrack reveal, there's plenty to celebrate about an artist who sounds fresh, vital more than 40 years after cutting his debut.

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Big Star: Complete Third

Kevin Korber / 19 October 2016

The premiere cult band's strangest record is reissued with every recording from its legendary sessions, presenting a story of its creator's descent into madness.

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The Unique Blues Album That You Never Heard Of — ‘Til Now

David Chiu / 25 January 2016

Cubist Blues is a stylistic departure; Alan Vega being best known for his work as one-half of pioneering electronic music Suicide, and Alex Chilton from the legendary power pop band Big Star.

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Counterbalance: Big Star’s ‘Third/Sister Lovers’

Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger / 7 March 2014

Lo they did rejoice, the bright and pure of voice. And the wrong shall fail and the right prevail. A 1978 (or 1974) cult classic is this week's Counterbalance.

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alex chilton

Bar/None Records Deliver Important Entries Expanding Alex Chilton’s Legacy and Catalog

Lost Memphis Music Legend Van Duren Getting His Due With New Documentary (premiere)

Big Star: Complete Third

The Unique Blues Album That You Never Heard Of — ‘Til Now

Counterbalance: Big Star’s ‘Third/Sister Lovers’

I Wrote This Song for You: An Interview with Chris Stamey

Alex Chilton: Free Again: The 1970 Sessions

After Hurricane Katrina, the Band Plays On: ‘Groove Interrupted’

Ray Davies: See My Friends

The Posthumous Sales Bump

The Replacements: In Love with Alex Chilton’s Song

Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ Still Amazes As a Conceptual Statement

Paul McCartney’s Beautiful Tribute to Lovely Linda McCartney

The New Freedom of Jawbox’s Zach Barocas

How Underground FM Radio Saved Rock

Kolumbo and the Quest to Tour Every Tiki Bar in America

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