Big Star (music group)

With the theatrical release of a documentary feature on indie-rock cult group Big Star looming for July 3, the 22-track soundtrack album will be released a week earlier on June 25 with previously unissued versions of the group’s cornerstone songs....

The dB's -- one of the greatest, most-overlooked rock bands of the 1980s -- is back together with its original lineup and a new album of fresh material. For me, this is more exciting than the Beach Boys mending fences with Brian Wilson. The new dB's...

A really nice feature at stereogum.commarking the first anniversary of the passing of Alex Chilton, the gifted singer-wongwriter known for his work with the Box Tops and Big Star. The feature includes plenty of audio clips of Big Star's signature work...

As 2010 winds down, we’ve still got a bunch of potentially terrific shows to look forward to, including Ludacris at the Allstate Arena (Sunday), Elvis Costello at the Chicago Theatre (Monday) and the Hold Steady at Lincoln Hall (Dec. 30),......

"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five decades as leader of one of rock's great bands, the Kinks, and as a solo artist, Davies has been...

On the surface, the Beach Boys and Vic Chesnutt are among the most polar opposite artists you could draw inspiration from. The former embodied California optimism and pristine, grand vocal harmonies; the latter made album after album of piercingly...

Jim Dickinson, a piano player and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67. His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of...

Alex Chilton, who burst out of Memphis in the late 1960s with the Box Tops, singing “The Letter” in the smoke-gravel voice of a grizzled R&B veteran even though he was just teenager at the time, has died in New......

I was supposed to go out and hear some music tonight. I didn't know if it would be some clanging revelation, a sound I'd never heard before, or a blast from the past given new oomph by some young punks......

The annual party and celebration of pop music that is the South by Southwest music festival has carried on just fine under tough climates in recent years. The music industry has suffered year-to-year declines in sales, but there's been minimal......

All the action may be on healthcare in Congress right now, but Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) just gave a truly moving tribute to Big Star's Alex Chilton on the House floor today. It's brief, earnest and disarmingly sweet -- just......

Alex Chilton performs at the SXSW festival in 2004. (Jack Plunkett, AP) Paul Westerberg and the Replacements spoke for countless artists and diehard fans when they wrote a song called "Alex Chilton" in 1987. "Children by the millions sing for......