Alex Chilton

Several people suggested I read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby. Read More

Dave Fischoff is a sonic successor to the painter Georges Seurat . Read More

An Asheville, N.C.-based singer-songwriter who honed her craft on New York City's Lower East Side, Chelsea Lynn La Bate offers haunting, socially aware folk music that packs the kind of intensity found in Billie Holiday's chilling rendition of "Strange Fruit." Read More

Big Star , one of the most influential, yet unheard, bands in rock history, will play a rare reunion show in Brooklyn on Wednesday, November 18. Read More

Somewhere tangled in the intricate web of rock music's history—halfway between the legacies and lineages of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys and then Cheap Trick, R.E.M., and Wilco—there was this little band from Memphis, Tennesse that rarely played gigs more than a few miles from the Mississippi River and released just three dismally selling records. Read More

In the ongoing continuing education of Steed, I recently listened to both #1 Record (1972) and Third/Sister Lovers (1978) by Big Star. My overall general assessment is that it's just not my thing. Read More

Spaceland's Monday-night shows in Los Angeles usually attract 50 music nerds with indie-rock guts hidden behind corduroy jackets. Read More

In recent years, 1970s New York has attained the cultural status of an enshrined era: an almost mythological time during which creativity soared in the wake of economic collapse. Read More

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A week ago, I was on the road to U2 at Raymond James Stadium. Read More