Big Star (music group)

Big Star film documentary, soundtrack due soon

2013-05-01 15:35:00

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....

Ray Davies' new album is a collaborative effort

2011-04-09 00:00:00

"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...

Alex Chilton dies at 59; mercurial leader of the Box Tops, Big Star

2010-03-18 16:35:00

Alex Chilton, the mercurial leader of the Box Tops and Big Star who burst from the Memphis music scene in 1967 singing "The Letter" in the smoke-gravel voice of a grizzled soul man even though he was just 16 at the time, has died. He was 59. Chilton...

Beach Boys, Vic Chesnutt earn a tribute from L.A. artists

2010-05-18 16:35:11

Jim Dickinson dies at 67; musician-producer helped shape the Memphis sound

2009-08-18 18:45:00

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...

Box Tops, Big Star singer Alex Chilton dies at 59

2010-03-18 04:34:37

RIP Alex Chilton, American Music Man

2010-03-18 04:34:37

SXSW Day 1: On a somber night, a discovery from Australia

2010-03-18 16:34:38

Alex Chilton remembered on the floor of Congress

2010-03-18 16:34:38

SXSW: Ann Powers' high points of the annual Texas festival

2010-03-21 21:34:42

The Alex Chilton panel at SXSW: "Those whom he touched, were touched immutably"

2010-03-21 21:34:43

Fantasy 'Idol': Big Star night

2010-03-22 16:33:52

Members of Big Star , left to right, Jon Auer, Jody Stephens and Ken Stringfellow take a bow after a tribute concert for the late Big Star singer/songwriter Alex Chilton at Antone's during SXSW .

2010-03-21 00:00:00

Mike Mills of R.E.M. performs with Big Star at a tribute concert for the late Big Star singer/songwroter Alex Chilton.

2010-03-21 00:00:00

Chilton performs at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, in 2004. Big Star was scheduled to play a reunion performance at this year's festival.

2010-03-18 15:22:11