The Beach Boys attempt The Box Tops hit "The Letter". Sounds like it would have been really good. Don't think they ever finished it though. The Letter (take 2).mp3 The Letter (track and vocal).mp3
Box Tops on Mike Douglas.mov Watch out-it's like 40 megs or so... Could that old lady be any more of a fucking condescending asshole? Who the fuck is she? I think they are singing live by the way...
Box Tops "The Letter" on Upbeat! Box Tops "The Letter" on Upbeat!.mov
Filed under: Concerts and Tours SXSW makes the music world seem topsy-turvy. The indie-centric festival floods Austin with so many hardcore music fans that even the smallest buzz band can seem like full-blown rock stars and the death of Alex Chilton can resound like Michael Jackson 's. But after watching Miike Snow play the Spin@Stubbs dayparty -- Spin magazine's 25th anniversary celebration headlined by Hole was one of several showcases for the electro-pop outfit -- it's inexplicable [...]
last night's king's of convenience show was an evening to remember. although i wasn't too familiar with their work (with the exception of their first album which i love very much), their amiable onstage personalities encouraged me to relate to their songs more as old friends than new acquaintances. i got their feeling especially with erlend's solo performance of big star's "thirteen", a tribute to the recently demised alex chilton. it's a song that treads on the nostalgic path of idyllic adolescence which the norwegian duo has done so well in capturing through their minimalist ballads, and even [...]
A fairly chill set for a fairly crazy week/end. Enjoy. • • • • Josiah Wolf (of Why?) "The Trailer and the Truck" from Jet Lag Phantom Kicks "Cut From A Different Clay" from self released Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros "Home (RAC Remix)" Banjo or Freakout "Upside Down" from Shake Some Action SXSW Sampler Pure Ecstacy "Voices" [...]
Alex Chilton's death was the third musical hero of mine to pass away this year. His death following far too quickly on from those of Sparklehorses Mark Linkous and the pure song writing genius of Vic Chesnutt . I have spent the time since reading about Alex Chilton's death loading up on the Boxtops, Big Star and solo material. I first hear Chilton via the song "No Sex" which was released on a tape by a short lived UK music paper Underground in 1988 titled [...]
Honestly people...what did you expect from us this week? We know you aren't reading anyway. To put it out in the open, we DID NOT go to SXSW. Why you say being that we all work in the music industry? Because we all work in the music industry and somebody has to keep shit in line back in good old NYC. If you want to read about SXSW go here. This week in review: Some of us drink the Kool-Aid [...]
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Alex Chilton 1950 - 2010 RIP Over the past couple of weeks the Devil's blog has taken on the appearance of an obituary column. Following the untimely death of Mark Linkous news of the death of Alex Chilton reached me yesterday. I can't think of a better tribute than Cry Like A Baby rest in peace Alex. The Box Tops Cry Like A Baby
Filed under: News , Exclusive , R.I.P. One of the defining elements of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has always been the band's wicked perspective on rock stardom. For the members of the veteran punk-soul trio, their reverence for the late Alex Chilton , who died at age 59 Wednesday, was wrapped in several layers of irony. "We were huge fans, and we were thrilled to death to have him on tour with us," frontman Jon Spencer, who learned of Chilton's death in France [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News It's easy at SXSW to lose sight of the fact that indie rock didn't originate with hip bands from Brooklyn. Those groups are part of a bigger story, in which Kid Congo Powers has had a big role: he played with the Gun Club , the Cramps , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and, Thursday, he played with his latest band, the Pink Monkey Birds, at Prague. "We're gonna be your friends for [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News dThursday night, the streets of Spokane, Wash., were filled with fans of Michigan State, Purdue and Texas A&M, partying before a day of first-round action. But inside the rock club BLVD., Ted Leo wasn't bothered by his alma mater's loss to Old Dominion in New Orleans. "I don't give a flying f---, to be perfectly honest," the Notre Dame alum told Spinner. Leo and his Pharmacists put on the rock 'n' roll equivalent of a [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News During Those Darlins ' half-hour set at the SXSW Billboard.com Bungalow on Thursday night, drinks were spilled, instruments were dropped and blood was shed. Needless to say, these three ladies (and one dude) from Murfreesboro, Tenn., know how to put on a show. Dressed in all red, they opened with 'Red Light Love,' which features the lyrics, "We'll dress up nice, jump in the car, go out and paint the town." Even on that first track, bassist Kelley [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Big Star members Jody Stephens, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer will go forward with the group's planned show Saturday night in Austin as part of SXSW , paying tribute to the band's frontman, Alex Chilton , who died earlier this week . Speaking to Billboard , Stephens says that the show will go on at Antone's tomorrow night, with the surviving members serving as a "house band" for the likes of R.E.M. 's Mike Mills , the dB's founder [...]
A fawning New York radio interviewer tells Alex Chilton that his band Big Star's newly released Radio City (1974) is getting an awful lot of critical acclaim. "It's really good," he gushes. Alex responds, "Yeah, that's nice. I hope it sells. We've had critical acclaim before." Alex Chilton never sold a lot of records but he made great music that holds up very well four decades later. Radio City and No. 1 Record are still two of my all-time favorite albums. Some would argue Big Star's 3rd (basically Alex's first solo album) was [...]
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives and a resilient and lucky breed of Americans have been proving him wrong ever since. First heard from as the gravelly Memphis boy bluesman fronting The Box Tops, where he suffered rockstar burnout while making hit records even so crabbed an anticommericalist [...]
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