Covering former Big Star guitarist Chris Bell’s 1978 ballad “I Am the Cosmos,” progressive art-rocker Eamon Fogarty manages to thread the needle, honoring the original’s ache while also tearing it apart via a Sonny Sharrock-style free jazz freakout.
Category: Big Star
Big Star :: Mod Lang (Alternate Mix)
“Rattle my gin!” Last year’s Big Star documentary, Nothing Can Hurt Me , is now streaming over at Netflix…which I’ll use, here, as an excuse to highlight the alternate mix of “Mod Lang”, culled […]
Catching Up With Jody Stephens: The AD Interview
If nothing went right for Big Star during their formative years in the early-mid ‘70s (bad distribution, zero management, internal creative strife), in terms of their legacy, it’s all come out golden […]
Big Star :: Cambridge Performing Arts Center, March 31, 1974
If there’s a power pop heaven, you know they’ve got a hell of a band. Us sinners can get a sneak preview of it on this recording, which captures Big […]
Nothing Can Hurt Me: The Big Star Story
Trailer for the upcoming Big Star Documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me: The Big Star Story
Don’t Lie To Me/When My Baby’s Beside Me (Big Star Covers)
Amongst the revelry in Austin last week during SXSW, Alex Chilton’s sudden passing , and his enduring influence, cast a large shadow throughout the week’s festivities. At every turn one could overhear […]
Jody Stephens/Big Star :: The AD Interview
This September – and how appropriate is that – Rhino brings us a wealth of Big Sta r related reissues and unreleased material. On the 15th comes Keep An Eye on the Sky , a 4-CD boxset that […]
Big Star :: Reissues/Vinyl/Box Set/Tributes
With reissues, a box set and vinyl all hitting shelves this year it’s a good time to be a Big Star fan, if albeit, a somewhat confusing one. A quick wrap-up: Two […]
Thank You Friends :: The Ardent Records Story
Ardent Records – all the way from Memphis. Whereas the bluff city will be forever known for its huge impact on soul, r&b, and the very roots of what became known as rock & […]