My husband and I have gone a lot of drives since moving to New Jersey last year — to small seaside towns, to rolling farmlands, through the notorious Meadowlands and their belching sulfuric funk. Those drives have taken on new significance as more and more New Jersey citizens don masks to go shopping, and as everyone faces the hard truths of the Covid-19 era.
Through the windshield of our little red hatchback is the only way we can see the world these days. And, more often than not, these drives, even the short ones,...
Through the windshield of our little red hatchback is the only way we can see the world these days. And, more often than not, these drives, even the short ones,...
- 7/11/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
It's another sad day for Big Star fans everywhere: the band's founding bassist Andy Hummel has died, a mere four months since the passing of founding member Alex Chilton. Hummel succumbed to a two-year battle with cancer yesterday (July 19) at age 59. Big Star's current bassist Ken Stringfellow first Tweeted the news yesterday: "Another sad loss for Big Star fans as Andy Hummel passes away after long illness." Hummel performed on the first two Big Star records, the legendary "#1" and "Radio City," before departing in the mid-'70s. He last performed with his former bandmates, though, in March this year,...
- 7/20/2010
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
Musician lost a two-year battle with cancer.
By Kara Warner
Big Star's Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, Andy Hummel and Alex Chilton in 1972
Photo: Charlie Gillett/ Redferns
More sad news for Big Star fans. Almost four months to the day since Alex Chilton's sudden death comes the loss of original bassist Andy Hummel. According to Dallas website Dfw.com, Hummel died Monday (July 19) after a two-year battle with cancer.
Current bassist Ken Stringfellow broke the news, tweeting: "Another sad loss for Big Star fans as Andy Hummel passes away after long illness."
Jason Elzy, a representative with Big Star's label, Rhino Records, confirmed the report to MTV News: "Sadly, I can confirm this is true. Andy has passed away."
The Memphis-born Hummel, along with singer/songwriter Chilton, guitarist Chris Bell and drummer Jody Stephens (who is the only living original member), formed the rock band in 1971, and their uniquely layered...
By Kara Warner
Big Star's Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, Andy Hummel and Alex Chilton in 1972
Photo: Charlie Gillett/ Redferns
More sad news for Big Star fans. Almost four months to the day since Alex Chilton's sudden death comes the loss of original bassist Andy Hummel. According to Dallas website Dfw.com, Hummel died Monday (July 19) after a two-year battle with cancer.
Current bassist Ken Stringfellow broke the news, tweeting: "Another sad loss for Big Star fans as Andy Hummel passes away after long illness."
Jason Elzy, a representative with Big Star's label, Rhino Records, confirmed the report to MTV News: "Sadly, I can confirm this is true. Andy has passed away."
The Memphis-born Hummel, along with singer/songwriter Chilton, guitarist Chris Bell and drummer Jody Stephens (who is the only living original member), formed the rock band in 1971, and their uniquely layered...
- 7/19/2010
- MTV Music News
The Posies, who for more than two decades have staked their claim as one of the finest power-pop bands in the world, have announced the upcoming release of their first new album in five years. Blood/Candy, recorded in Spain and their hometown of Seattle, will be released by Rykodisc on September 28, coinciding with a European tour that begins the same day and which will be followed by shows in America and Canada. (The Posies, L-r: Matt Harris, Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Darius Minwalla. Photo by Christine Taylor) The Posies -- led by founding members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow -- released their first record when they were both still in their teens. In the early '90s, they gained a weird notoriety for being one of the few bands from Seattle who weren't playing grunge. What they were...
- 7/12/2010
- by Tony Sachs
- Huffington Post
Members of R.E.M., Meat Puppets, She & Him join the rest of Big Star to remember the late Chilton.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
- 3/21/2010
- MTV Music News
What was meant to be one of the highlights of SXSW:--Big Star’s show Saturday night—will now turn into a tribute to Big Star’s lead singer, Alex Chilton, who died of a heart attack on March 17. Among the artists who are expected to join the Big Star founding member, Jody Stephens, and current members Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, are R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, M.Ward, John Doe and the dB’s Chris Stamey. Stephens told Billboard that Big Star will act as the “house band” for the evening. The band may be joined by Andy Hummel, Big Star’s original bassist and only remaining...
- 3/19/2010
- Hitfix
Surviving Big Star bandmates, members of R.E.M., She & Him and others will play in an all-star tribute band.
By Gil Kaufman
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Members of R.E.M., X and She & Him will join the surviving members of Big Star to pay tribute to late frontman Alex Chilton at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. The gig, which Chilton was supposed to play with his legendarily influential band, will take place just three days after the guitarist/singer passed away from a suspected heart attack in New Orleans at age 59.
The Saturday night show at Antone's will feature original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and newer members Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies acting as a house band, with original Big Star bassist Andy Hummel expected to sit in along with She & Him's M. Ward, R.E.
By Gil Kaufman
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Members of R.E.M., X and She & Him will join the surviving members of Big Star to pay tribute to late frontman Alex Chilton at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. The gig, which Chilton was supposed to play with his legendarily influential band, will take place just three days after the guitarist/singer passed away from a suspected heart attack in New Orleans at age 59.
The Saturday night show at Antone's will feature original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and newer members Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies acting as a house band, with original Big Star bassist Andy Hummel expected to sit in along with She & Him's M. Ward, R.E.
- 3/19/2010
- MTV Music News
Photograph by Stephanie Chernikowski/Redferns. Musician Alex Chilton died in New Orleans at the age of 59 of an apparent heart attack. Chilton was a fixture of the Memphis music scene as early as 1967 when, at the age of 16, he joined the Box Tops and recorded the number-one hit “The Letter.” In the early Seventies, he formed Big Star, a pop band that never found the same commercial success but went on to influence more bands than it sold records. Among Big Star’s outspoken admirers were the bands R.E.M., Wilco, and the Replacements, who even wrote a song called “Alex Chilton.” Big Star might have finally broken out of its cult niche last year with the release of a four-cd box set called Keep An Eye on the Sky. After the demise of Big Star, Chilton deliberately turned away from his small but devoted fan base and went...
- 3/18/2010
- Vanity Fair
Influential rock musician was scheduled to play at SXSW this week.
By Gil Kaufman
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Cult rock icon Alex Chilton, leader of the influential 1970s power-pop band Big Star, died on Wednesday in a New Orleans hospital at age 59.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that Chilton, who was also a member of the 1960s pop-soul group the Box Tops ("The Letter"), had been complaining about feeling unwell earlier in the day and was taken by paramedics to an emergency room, where doctors could not revive him after he suffered a suspected heart attack.
"I'm crushed. We're all just crushed," said John Fry, a longtime friend of Chilton's and owner of Memphis' Ardent Studios, the legendary recording studio whose label, Ardent Records, released the first two Big Star albums. "This sudden death experience is never something that you're prepared for. And yet it occurs."
Chilton's death...
By Gil Kaufman
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Cult rock icon Alex Chilton, leader of the influential 1970s power-pop band Big Star, died on Wednesday in a New Orleans hospital at age 59.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that Chilton, who was also a member of the 1960s pop-soul group the Box Tops ("The Letter"), had been complaining about feeling unwell earlier in the day and was taken by paramedics to an emergency room, where doctors could not revive him after he suffered a suspected heart attack.
"I'm crushed. We're all just crushed," said John Fry, a longtime friend of Chilton's and owner of Memphis' Ardent Studios, the legendary recording studio whose label, Ardent Records, released the first two Big Star albums. "This sudden death experience is never something that you're prepared for. And yet it occurs."
Chilton's death...
- 3/18/2010
- MTV Music News
Even if you don't know Ken Stringfellow by name as one of power-pop's finest songwriters and performers of the last twenty years, you're probably familiar with the bands he's worked with - R.E.M., Big Star, and the Posies, to name just three. Now he's lifting the curtain on his latest project, the Disciplines, whose supercharged debut album, Smoking Kills, has just been released in the Us. Stringfellow first hooked up with the Disciplines when they were known as Briskeby, a slick Norwegian pop band who'd found massive success in their home country but couldn't get arrested anywhere else. Briskeby called it quits soon after Stringfellow toured with them in 2005, and he decided to try writing with the core members of the band with the goal of making harder, more elemental music than they had on their own. ...
- 5/4/2009
- by Tony Sachs
- Huffington Post
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