March 2010
15 posts
Rob Sheffield Remembers Ultimate Indie Cult Hero... →
The one thing that was wrong in this article was that the club was in Radford, VA and not Roanoke, VA. It was at a place called Lucky’s which is now a more fratty bar named Riley’s.
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Rob did a great job here. Anyone who has read his terrific memoir will be pleased to notice that he mentions in passing how Big Star played a crucial part in his relationship with his first...
Alex Chilton
I don’t exactly know where to start in writing a post like this. Sure, we’ve had some great musicians pass in the past few months. Sure, their deaths saddened me, but I didn’t necessarily feel the same pain that I felt last night when my wife passed on the news that Alex Chilton had died. I immediately forfeited our game of Drunken Jeopardy and ran back to my office to read...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day - you fucking drunks, you!
and we lose another. RIP Mark Linkous. RIP...
Sure, I was hit hard by the passing and suicide of Vic Chesnutt…. and now to lose another one of my favorite songwriters/musicians to suicide is even more painful. As a songwriter and musician myself, Mark Linkous meant the world to me.
He was the king of the tortured, painful melody. Melodies so brilliant that, at times, they would give McCartney and Lennon a run for their money. But the...
