The release of ‘In Space’ has been pushed back to September 26th, NME reports today. (story)
The tracklisting:
1. Dony
2. Lady Sweet
3. Best Chance We’ve Ever Had
4. Turn My Back On The Sun
5. Love Revolution
6. February’s Quiet
7. Mine Exclusively
8. A Whole New Thing
9. Aria Largo
10. Hung Up With Summer
11. Do You Wanna Make It
12. Makeover
The album has a title! It will be called “In Space” and it’s scheduled for release August 30th on Rykodisc.
In this month’s issue of Q magazine (with Oasis on the cover), the free CD included has a track from the album called “Dony.”
The new Big Star album (currently untitled) is set to be released August 28th on Rykodisc. You can pre-order it at Not Lame here (soundbites will be up soon): http://www.notlame.com/Big_Star/Page_1/CDBIGSTAR1.html
Also, in this month’s issue of Mojo magazine (Oasis on the cover), there is an article about the album and some quotes from Jon.
Down in the Delta
The Heart and Soul of Memphis Recording
By Rick Clark
Memphis is a town of contradictions, a seemingly illogical place where nothing seems to happen and a lot of things are happening at once. More than a million people live in the area, yet it feels like no one’s in a hurry and they’ll arrive in their own time.
The music that has come out of the River City has in many ways changed the world, thanks to iconoclasts, renegades and dreamers such as Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, Estelle Axton and Jim Stewart, who started Stax Records (Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding), Willie Mitchell and his Hi Records label (Al Green), Quinton Claunch of Goldwax (O.V. Wright, The Ovations) and John Fry of Ardent (Big Star, Cargoe). So much important music has come out of Memphis that it is easy to overlook fresh, new homegrown talent such as the North Mississippi Allstars, hard-rockers Saliva and hip hop act Three 6 Mafia…
“This is the show where I debuted much of the Soft Commands material. It was an emotional night. This year at SXSW, I was doing it all hours, full speed,” Ken says.
“The Posies played electric and acoustic sets, Big Star performed and I played several solo sets plus accompanied Robyn Hitchcock (twice) and John Roderick from the Long Winters.
“I was influenced by my fatigue and by wherever I was in my life at that point. Anyway, somehow, when I played these songs, I had a lot to release, and many mysterious and deep sentiments were attached to the erformances, hopping on as stowaways, making it sometimes difficult to proceed without being overwhelmed, but all in all it was an intense set.”
from murmurs.com