Rocks Off

SXSW 04 encore: Saturday showcases and more

"...bust. The current members of Big Star – singer Alex Chilton, drummer Jody Stephens, and Posies Jonathan Auer and..."

March 26, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."No More the Moon Shines on Lorena," Alex Chilton..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...STAMEY: Whether you know him as songwriter/musician (the dBs, Alex Chilton, Yo La Tengo), master of the knobs (Whiskeytown,..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

At Long Last Love

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

"...great ride. There's a line from a Replacements song "Alex Chilton" I always loved: "I'm in love, what's that..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"...at Rolling Stone. Clambake burnt out with only an Alex Chilton-produced CD as evidence of its brief existence...."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Amy Rigby The Sugar Tree (Koch)

"...tips a knowing brim to the VU's "Femme Fatale," Alex Chilton's "Holocaust," and Santo & Johnny) to piss-spitting rage..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...at that rock critics' panel at UT. Gail Gant1, Alex Chilton, and I showed up stinking drunk; we'd been..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...and soulful slugfest of emotion liberated from cliché. Like Alex Chilton backed by an egoless Blues Explosion, Long preaches..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Okkervil River

Bloodletting the evil out of acoustic-trio Okkervil River.

"...the brutal honesty and whispered wallowing of a young Alex Chilton circa Big Star's "Kanga Roo" or "Holocaust."..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Dancing About Architecture

Moving Violations

"...a few guests on the level of Paul Westerberg, Alex Chilton, or King Sunny Ade, though so far his..."

July 2, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Aces High

The Return of the Texas Tornados

"...innumerable Memphis R&B artists, and produced acts ranging from Alex Chilton to the Replacements. Needless to say, the results..."

July 5, 1996 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...The record ends with a 15-minute, feedback-drenched version of Alex Chilton's "Kangaroo," but apparently record-closing long distortion jams are..."

July 7, 1995 Music Review

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