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Alex Chilton, the influential musician and producer who worked first with The Box Tops and then with the power pop group Big Star, died this week from a heart attack at age 59. Neda Ulaby looks back on Chilton's life.
Best Coast have been one of the most talked-about bands in the weeks leading up to SXSW 2010. In this set from the Gibson Guitar Showroom from KEXP, Best Coast plays poppy, lo-fi surf rock.
Best Coast have been one of the most talked-about bands in the weeks leading up to SXSW 2010. In this set from the Gibson Guitar Showroom from KEXP, Best Coast plays poppy, lo-fi surf rock.
Musician Alex Chilton died yesterday. He was the lead singer of the Memphis band Big Star. To remember the underground legend, Ed Ward reviews Keep an Eye on the Sky, a four-disc collection of recordings, demos and outtakes.
Chris Melissinos and Georgina Goodlander speak about museum gaming at the Game Developer’s Conference. Last week I joined guest curator Chris Melissinos at this year's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco to present "A Day at the Museum: How the...
Every night during the madness that is SXSW Bob Boilen, Carrie Brownstein, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson will meet up on some random street corner and break down the events of the day. As Stephen says in the first of the group's late-night dispatches from Austin, "This is the most lucid…
The Runaways is a movie about Joan Jett’s band. Joan Jett was one of the most successful acts out of the Philly area. The movie premiers tonight at the Ritz Five in Philadelphia, PA. 7:30 PM
Local Natives' "Airplanes" takes about four seconds to announce itself as the lighthearted romp it is; that's about how long it takes for the band to start booing its own piano player. As if reminding itself to perk up, "Airplanes" quickly self-corrects into a jaunty…
View a gallery of images from NPR Music's opening-night showcase of the South By Southwest music festival, held at Stubbs Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas. Performers included Visqueen, The Walkmen, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells and Spoon.
View a gallery of images from NPR Music's opening-night showcase of the South By Southwest music festival, held at Stubbs Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas. Performers included Visqueen, The Walkmen, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells and Spoon.
Some sad news in the midst of South by Southwest's opening night: Big Star frontman Alex Chilton has died. Chilton, 59, died at a New Orleans hospital Wednesday after collapsing earlier in the day.
NPR Music spends St. Patrick's Day at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Photographer Shantel Mitchell was out and about.
I stopped to catch a couple of songs from this group while heading to another show. The band is Judgement Day, a trio from California that describes itself as "string metal." Move over Brooklyn Rider! The show I was on my way to see was Freelance Whales at the Paste Magazine day party.
For the past decade, the soul singer and her dynamite nine-piece band haven't slowed down, playing world-class venues as well as almost every major U.S. music festival. The band has kept a relentless touring schedule and built a reputation for putting on a stupendous live show. Jones and company…
For the past decade, the soul singer and her dynamite nine-piece band haven't slowed down, playing world-class venues as well as almost every major U.S. music festival. The band has kept a relentless touring schedule and built a reputation for putting on a stupendous live show. Jones and company…
At long last, I've seen some live music! I've been at SXSW since Saturday. For the first few days I sat in dark theaters, searched for inspiration and kept quiet. But now — and with a sense of relief and release — I can be in the sunshine, and I can be in the noise.
With a menagerie of old instruments and a mammoth reverb tank, The Walkmen's members produce ghostly, shambolic songs that float along underneath lead singer Hamilton Leithauser's idiosyncratic yelp. The band performed as part of NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's on March 17 in…
With a menagerie of old instruments and a mammoth reverb tank, The Walkmen's members produce ghostly, shambolic songs that float along underneath lead singer Hamilton Leithauser's idiosyncratic yelp. The band performed as part of NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's on March 17 in…
View a photo gallery of NPR Music's first impressions of SXSW 2010.
View a photo gallery of NPR Music's first impressions of SXSW 2010.
If you're in Austin for SXSW, or if you just want to know where the NPR Music folks are hanging out this week, we've created a handy little map to help you get oriented.
Chevelle plays Take The Pain Below to a crowd of screaming fans at the Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. [Video / .MP4]
Fresh off the release of its seventh album, Transference , Spoon headlined NPR Music's showcase at Stubb's in Austin, Texas, on March 17. The songs on Transference , with a slightly rawer sound than their previous album, sounded right at home on stage.
Brothers Ed and Matt Anderson and drummer Tim Kramp are at the core of the Bloomington, Ill., band. Backyard Tire Fire performs songs from its breakthrough release, The Places We Lived , and previews material from an upcoming album.
The Fire Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 7:00pm – 9:00pm 412 W. Girard Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19123
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