Ken Stringfellow

Grandaddy recording new LP; frontman Jason Lytle touring France as part of Elliott Smith tribute w/ Ken Stringfellow

Grandaddy made four albums between 1997 and 2006, two of which (2000’s The Software Slump and 2003’s Sumday) are early-’00s indie rock classics…

Lucero share cover of Big Star's "I'm in Love with a Girl" featuring Jody Stephens, Jon Auer & Ken Stringfellow

Lucero‘s new album, All A Man Should Do, will be out September 18 via ATO and the band have shared another song from it, a cover of Big Star‘s “I’m in Love with a Girl…

Kurt Vile has a new Tom Scharpling-directed video, playing Big Star tribute w/ Sharon Van Etten & others after 4Knots (dates)

Kurt Vile at Bowery Ballroom in May (more by Amanda Hatfield) Kurt Vile released his new album, Wakin On A Pretty Daze, this past April. It’s a fantastic double album which takes the style he perfected on 2011’s Smoke Ring For My Halo to new, ambitious heights without ever overdoing it or dragging…

Jody Stephens, Ken Stringfellow, Tim Rutili & more to perform Big Star's 'Third' at the Vic Theatre with an orchestra

Big Star‘s iconic Third turns 35 this year(!). In celebration of that, and in memory of the late Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens (Big Star), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star), Tim Rutili (Califone), Mike Mills (R…

The Posies' Ken Stringfellow made a video with Margaret Cho, on tour now (two NYC shows this weekend)

Posies singer Ken Stringfellow released his fourth solo LP, Danzig in the Moonlight, last fall which found him a little more raw mode than the harmonied pop his band is known for…

tix on sale: Nick Cave, Beach Fossils, Chelsea Wolfe, Ken Stringfellow, The Suzan, Indians, Darwin Deez & more

Tickets for the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Sharon Van Etten shows at Beacon Theatre are on presale (password: “CAVE”). General on-sale starts Thursday (12/6) at 10 AM…

Big Star members & many special guests paid tribute to Alex Chilton Saturday night @ SXSW - pics, video & setlist

Just as everyone at the SXSW Music Festival was finding their groove Wednesday, news of the death of Alex Chilton hit. “Austin’s in shock about Alex,” read one of the countless social media memes…

Big Star & Kurt Vile @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple in NYC - pics & setlist

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…

Big Star releasing box set, PLAYING NYC SHOW (on sale)

“Big Star served as a Rosetta stone for a whole generation of musicians.” –Peter Buck, R.E.M. Rhino is releasing Big Star‘s 4-disc boxed set which includes 98 tracks spanning from 1968-1975…

Robyn Hitchcock (now playing festivals) played Bonnaroo & the Bell House w/ Ken Stringfellow & Takka Takka (pics)

On Thursday I saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 – R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin and Scott McCaughey – at the Bell House in Brooklyn…
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