“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 from disc two of Thank You Friends: The Ardent Story . […]
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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 Star in the spring of […]
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 friends and acquaintances sharing stories […]
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 combines Big Star album tracks, […]
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 weeks ago saw the release […]
Big Star :: O My Soul
I’ve noticed over the years that whenever Big Star creeps into my daily listening habits, I in turn find myself listening to a hell of a lot more power pop in general — and vice versa. Lately, […]
The Beach Boys at Big Sur Folk Festival (1970)
On the heels of the majestic Sunflower and a carefully managed image rehabilitation campaign, The Beach Boys’ appearance at 1970’s Big Sur Folk Festival was a calculated effort to align themselves with the counterculture. Sans Dennis Wilson, off filming Two-Lane Blacktop, California’s native sons delivered an excellent set drawn largely from Pet Sounds onward — a quiet corrective to their infamous withdrawal from 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival. Despite years of archival excavations from the band’s vaults, the performance remains officially unreleased.
All One Song :: Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) on “Big Crime”
Welcome to All One Song season two. We kick off this exploration of the Shakey-verse with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. The indie trio has a long history with Neil—the b-side of their second single was a sweet cover of “For The Turnstiles.” But Kaplan doesn’t want to talk about an old classic, but rather the most recent Neil song, as of the time of this taping at least. Strap in for “Big Crime.”
All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast and Big Ears 2026 Live Streaming Morning Show
Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions is returning to your podcast feed. We are pleased to announce season two of All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast and Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions’ streaming morning show at Big Ears. Join us March 26 for a special episode featuring Thurston Moore and Kramer, and then April 1 for Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo on AOS.
David Bowie’s Blackstar Jazz
Released 10 years ago today, David Bowie’s Blackstar marked the artist’s most intensive and rewarding collaboration with jazz musicians in the span of his six decade career. To commemorate the album’s anniversary we dive into how his work with Maria Schneider, Donny McCaslin and other players shaped his final record.
A Big Ego Baker’s Dozen
Over the past several years, founder Chris Schlarb has made Big Ego into a community-driven, artist-centric (and remarkably affordable) hub, the likes of which are lamentably few and far between. The label’s output is packed with gems, many of which bring together a murderer’s row of Los Angeles-area musicians to create records that are deeply imaginative, carefully crafted and utterly unique. Here, we’ve gathered a baker’s dozen of recommended listens — just a small sampling of what the Big Ego universe has in store.
Big Bend :: Last Circle In A Slowdown
The third album from pianist/singer Nathan Phillips’ Big Bend project blends experimental methods with time-tested tradition. Working with avant-jazz master Shahzad Ismaily and a varied ensemble including Jen Powers of Rolin/Powers Duo and violinist Zosha Warpeha, Phillips transforms delicate folk songs into strange collages and elliptical ballads. At times reminiscent of the fluid, gauzy extrapolations of Talk Talk, Last Circle in a Slowdown might have more in common with Joan of Arc’s controversial ProTools workout The Gap. But Big Bend doesn’t embrace the alienation that comes with such studio manipulation and digital disruption, instead finding a lithe grace in the interstices of the regular and the revolutionary. Untroubled but eerie, Big Bend finds its own kind of ambiguous beauty.
King Hannah :: Big Swimmer
King Hannah juxtaposes the cool, poised narratives of singer Hannah Merrick with the guitar storms of her partner Craig Whittle, a volatile mix that can sound like Dry Cleaning in one track, PJ Harvey the next. The duo, out of Liverpool, have one previous album, an EP and a slew of singles to their credit before Big Swimmer, but this album ups the stakes considerably.
Angel Olsen :: Big Time
On her stunning new album Big Time, Angel Olsen chronicles a complex couple of years and a resulting sense of rebirth. Filled with country-tinged melodies and sparse arrangements, it features some of the songwriter’s most engaging work.