Mates Of State cover The Replacements

Am I the absolute last to know everything?

Check out the itinerary of the movie. It looks to be fucking awesome.

We’re heading to Minneapolis for interviews during the first week of June. If you live in the Twin Cities area and would like to talk about the Replacements in front of a camera, send an email.

Go to Color Me Obsessed for more information.

“Meanwhile, Raymond said, “an unbelievable amount of people” wanted to be part of the current project, which will feature all original material. Westerberg wrote the title track, and other collaborators include members of the Dandy Warhols, guitarist Steve Hunter, former Prince cohort Wendy Melvoin and drummer Josh Freese. The album’s release date is pending a label deal.”

Interesting, yes?

The online version isn’t the full story, but in the print version, the greatest revelation I didn’t know: the misheard lyrics of Bastards: “We are the sons of no one” is actually “Wait on the sons of no one” – Paul says he lifted that phrase from the Bible. Wow! And I thought “Bacon & Cigarettes” was king!

“Yeah, December boys got it bad, as “September Gurls” notes. The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist. Someone should write a tune about him. Then again, nah, that would be impossible. Or just plain stupid.”

• Props for Alex Chilton from the floor of the House by Memphis Democratic Rep Steve Cohen check it on CSPAN.
• The Chicago Reader.
• Dave Lifton of Wings for Wheels.
• CNN’s The Marquee Blog.
• USA Today’s Pop Candy.
• Huffington Post.
• The Guardian UK.
• MTV.
• Rob Sheffield in Rolling Stone.
• NPR.
• Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune.
• The Washington Post.
• The Onion’s A.V. Club.
• The Wall Street Journal.
• Entertainment Weekly.
• Rolling Stone.
• Tommy Stinson tweets about Alex’s death.
• Jim DeRogatis on Chilton’s death.
• NY Times Art’s Beat Blog on his death.
• Pitchfork.