big star Archive
18 Oct 2019
Album Review: Big Star — In Space
To those who followed Alex Chilton’s musical activities in the 1980s and beyond, the thought that he would ever revisit his Big Star-era music – much less put the band […]
21 Sep 2019
Book Review: There Was a Light
I’m a voracious reader. My tastes run decidedly toward nonfiction, but I like a good narrative. And that’s been the case since I was very young. What I never could […]
19 Apr 2019
We Get What We Deserve: Big Star — Live on WLIR
As the shopworn saying goes – it has been applied to other acts as well – Big Star was a group that sold very few records during its original existence, […]
17 Dec 2017
Hundred-word Reviews for December 2017: Reissues/Compilations
Today I take quick looks – in the form of 100-word reviews – at ten newly-reissued and/or compiled releases. There’s something for everyone – and lots for me – in […]
11 Jun 2017
Album Review: The Best of Big Star
As fate would have it, here’s a special (and exceedingly rare) Sunday blog post. — bk File under famine-then-feast. On their original release, the three albums by Memphis’ Big Star […]
18 May 2017
Capsule Reviews for May 2017, Part One
Thank You, Friends (Concord Bicycle Music) I remember a time when seemingly nobody knew about Big Star; happily for me, that was about the time I found “new old stock” […]
26 Dec 2016
Best Music of 2016: Reissue/archival Releases
I love new music, but I’m also attuned to keeping up with the latest in reissues and archival releases. Sometimes those feature some of my favorite artists; other times they […]
12 Dec 2016
Album Review: Big Star — Complete Third
The third album from Big Star is the most difficult in the Memphis group’s slim catalog of 1970s releases, and quite unlike its predecessors. The band’s debut – 1972’s #1 […]
16 Sep 2016
PRIX: The Band that Never Was
In March 1974, Jon Tiven had just turned 19 and was living in New York City. In the next two and half years, he’d find himself deeply enmeshed in a […]
21 Jun 2016
Album Mini-review: Those Pretty Wrongs
File next to: Starling Electric; Teenage Fanclub, The Posies Jody Stephens was the George Harrison of legendary Memphis power pop group Big Star: though these days Chris Bell and Alex […]
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