The double detachment of third person, past tense was just as difficult for him, his words frequently slipping into an especially ugly brand...

Richard Lloyd is my guitar messiah. I grew up listening to Television, played the grooves off of Marquee Moon and Adventure , as well as th...

Matthew Sweet divides listeners, but count me among his boosters. I mean, he's a Born Again Angeleno, via Athens, Georgia, via Lincoln, ...

In spite of the oceans of critical jizz spilled over the dB’s back in the day, I always felt their supposed greatness was an illusion, the r...

Sex Clark Five, a quartet, actually, from Huntsville, Alabama, made arty power pop, often of a hyper-intellectualized variety, which is not...

All this thinking I've done over the last week or so about the Memphis scene of the 70s has reminded me of how much good guitar pop has ...

#1 Record is the only Big Star album I like anymore. By the time you get to Radio City and especially Sister Lovers , things sound way too...

Alex Chilton is typically viewed as the main creative force within Big Star, but for my money the late Chris Bell is the guy who made the ba...

Another thing I've noticed about the Memphis scene is that it tended to produce very somber sounding records. I'm not talking about...

Tonight’s song is the best offering on Tommy Hoehn’s 1978 lost classic, Losing You To Sleep . The Big Star fans out there will hear it and...

One important detail I neglected to mention yesterday is that the Scruffs are from Memphis, meaning that the city known as the Home of the B...

I'm having a nice time eating, drinking and relaxing at the country house my sister and her husband own in a rural part of New York Stat...

The Beat's Rock 'n Roll Girl is a nice little song, but its significance transcends the pleasure it provides for listeners over the ...

Add the Michael Guthrie Band, from Athens, Georgia, to the list of groups that will leave you scratching your head, wondering why they didn...