Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Directed by Drew DeNicola (USA, 2012, 100 minutes) Festival Screenings: Tuesday, May 21, 9PM at SIFF Cinema Uptown Wednesday, May 26, 8:30pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown Last year’s Oscar winning documentary Searching for Sugarman shined a spotlight on an artist who, despite obvious talent and critical acclaim, somehow slipped through the cracks and never enjoyed the mainstream success he was destined for until later in life when a journalist tracked him down and revealed his bootlegged music was [...]
Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss talks Irish ferries, touring with Wilco and their upcoming Irish tour... Water On Mars , the next step in the evolution of Mike Polizze 's bedroom rock project Purling Hiss was released on the consistently excellent U.S. indie label Drag City in March with Irish fans finally getting to hear the Birds Of Maya guitarist's solo output in a live setting. Just before Mike - and new [...]
Smith Westerns es de esas bandas que como sello tienen la buena vibra, es fácil disfrutar del cálido confort al que te llevan con su power pop influenciado por Supergrass , David Bowie o T. Rex y conforme la banda va evolucionando se le sienten más esas agridulces melodías que nos recuerdan a Big Star . La banda originaria de Chicago ya tiene tres producciones en su carrera, su más reciente Soft Will, fue lanzada a principios de [...]
Long weekend, empty wallet... To have any clue what this series of posts is about click here . I went a wandering about the country this weekend and, rather than be sure of decent meals until the end of the month, I opted to go on a bit of a spending spree in the capital so this week's Purchases post will come in two parts with the first post/purchases courtesy of Dublin's Freebird Records . I promised myself ages [...]
As a younger gent in the late '80s through the mid '90s, I fancied myself one of the dark crowd. I lived in my painted leather biker jacket, eye-liner, white button-down shirt, black jeans & Doc Martens. Lurking by the record bins at Wax Trax, deciding which t-shirt at FashioNation most fit my look while [...] The post My Favorite Album Ever (This Week): This Mortal Coil - "It'll End in Tears" appeared first on Your Music Is Awful.com .
Five Evan Dando covers you may or may not know prove his great talents are only matched by his great taste.
This Saturday, April 20th, is Record Store Day , which has become like a national holiday for me and my fellow music lovers and record collecting geeks. It’s an annual event to celebrate independent record stores — and tons of artists contribute cool, one-of-a-kind, limited edition releases that are available only on this day. If fact, sometimes they’re gone within minutes of the store opening. Here are a few of the many releases worth getting up early for: [...]
It's that time of the year again, everybody! The best holiday of the year (yes, better than National Ferris Wheel Day AND Leif Erikson Day) has returned . I've been going to Record Store Day since 2009, and even when I didn't look up the releases beforehand, I'd still walk out of my favorite record store (RIP Cutlers in New Haven) with something unique and special. Unique and special is what Record Store Day does incredibly well, and it's why we love it so much. Since its relatively humble beginnings in 2008, the event has grown in popularity every [...]
One of my all-time favorite Record Store Day releases was Omnivore's 2011 reissue of the Test Pressing of Big Star's Third . This year Omnivore is back with a new Big Star RSD release, Nothing Can Hurt Me , a two LP compilation of alternate versions and remixes of Big Star classics that also serves as the soundtrack to the soon-to-be-released Big Star documentary film. Nothing Can Hurt Me will be pressed on colored vinyl and will include a download card for those who think [...]
The WXPN Music Film Festival returns for a second weekend this spring, and its lineup covers once again covers the musical and cinematic gamut. Blues fans can experience the southern juke joint circuit with We Juke Up In Here; b-movie lovers can nerd out to The History of Future Folk; 70s music buffs and present ... Continue reading
Big Star recorded Blue Moon for their third album in 1974, the album may have been a Big Star album and may have been called Sister Lovers - the Wikipedia page has some rumination on this ... Different opinions exist regarding the categorization of Third as a Big Star album. According to Chilton, "Jody and I were hanging together as a unit still but we didn't see it as a Big Star record. We never saw it as a Big Star record. That was a marketing decision when the record was sold in whatever year [...]
I would assume that most every Bedazzled! reader is at least FAMILIAR with Big Star. If you aren't, I strongly suggest that you do not pass GO and immediately purchase the box set Keep An Eye On The Sky as well as the double disc reissue of Chris Bell's posthumous masterpiece I Am The Cosmos. These are some of the greatest sounding CD's out there (it takes A LOT for an analog diehard such as myself to [...]
You know the score. MM is a blog that (musically) tends to favour the seedier side of life - murder ballads, heartbreak, despair, stories of the downtrodden, the down-on-their-luck, and the downhearted - you know the kind of things we mean. Ours is a world of lonely beer and whiskey chasers nursed in the back booths of dead-end bars, of crack-whores turning tricks in trailers while their children listen on from the next room, and of purposeless drifters stumbling broke, and broken, through dusty ghost-towns. Its just the way we like it round these parts. And [...]
This week's post is a special one. Big Star is a band I have been listening to and thinking about for a while now, and both of these albums go hand in hand, so you all are getting two vinyls today! #1 Record and Radio City are the first two releases by the band, and these days they are often sold in a package. They are fantastic as far as classic rock albums go. Big Star was gaining popularity while other bands like Cheap Trick were being soaked in the limelight. Ironically [...]
It's a new year and with every new year comes a rush of artists releasing videos and albums at an alarming pace. While we mostly stick to posting artists' videos on our Twitter or Facebook pages on a daily basis, lately it seems that they're coming in far too quickly to keep up. What we're left with is an ever-growing pile of material that you may never hear... and we can't let that happen, can we? You may remember our [...]
Memphis four-piece Big Star belongs in the pantheon of 1970s rock gods. A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a musical tribute by the bands they inspired is slated for release later this year. Drew DeNicola and Oliva Mori directed Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me . DeNicola is no stranger to the rock doc. He is the brains behind the ongoing documentary project Natural Soul Brother: The Original Black Radio DJs . DeNicola is also the editor behind VICE's video arm, VBS.tv . [...]
Nothing Can Hurt Me , a documentary about legendary early '70s band Big Star , got some positive reviews last year after limited screenings. Now the movie has backing from billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban . Magnolia Pictures, which is owned by Cuban and partner Todd Wagner, acquired the North American rights to the movie and plans to release it in theaters this year. In addition to being a distributor, Magnolia owns the Landmark Theatres chain. The movie tells the story of Big Star's commercial failure despite the band's later influence on generations [...]
I confess: I'd never heard of Toy Love until this morning when I opened my inbox. There, nestled between bulletins about Bobby Rush and Youth Lagoon , was an announcement about upcoming reissues from Flying Nun Records, a New Zealand label that was apparently a cutting edge DIY operation back in the late 702s. First on the shelf for the Nuns (via the Brooklyn's Captured Tracks) is a compilation of tunes by the aforementioned Toy Love. The announcement says that Toy Love was something of a May-December romance, a band that lasted little more than [...]
Whether you experience Christmas as a spiritual curative or a wretched crucible likely depends upon your capacity to enjoy the Yuletide season's truly disassociate spirit of insanity. Most of us may consider ourselves largely inured at this point to the curiously redundant recurring color schemes, the unnaturally oppressive nighttime lighting and deeply strange rituals, the whole notion of dwarves and deer running amuck with bounty and coal. On a conscious level, most of us just take that the whole thing in stride. Well, you might say, that's just Christmas! Read More...
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