Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who helmed two popular Memphis-based bands, the soul-pop Box Tops and power pop pioneers Big Star, died today (...
Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist for The Box Tops and Big Star, has died aged 59 in New Orleans of a suspected heart attack. He was due to perform w...
Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist for The Box Tops and Big Star, has died aged 59 in New Orleans of a suspected heart attack. He was due to perform w...
Singer-songwriter Alex Chilton, best known for his work with seminal powerpop band Big Star, died this afternoon of an apparent heart attack, accordin...
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) spent two minutes on the floor of the House of Representatives to mourn the death of Alex Chilton, best known as the lead s...
On March 17, Alex Chilton, the Memphis-raised singer, songwriter, performer, and producer, died in New Orleans. He was 59. It's impossible to express ...
Crushing news from the Memphis Commercial Appeal: Alex Chilton, the legendary singer, songwriter, and performer who created music with the Box Tops, B...
's difficult swan song, Third/Sister Lovers, as lullabies for his son, Noah. "I think [Chilton] wrote some of the most beautiful songs," Weiland said....
Big Star's SXSW show on Saturday will go on, it seems, following the death of Alex Chilton. Band members Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer and Jody Stephen's...
Big Star's SXSW show on Saturday will go on, it seems, following the death of Alex Chilton. Band members Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer and Jody Stephen's...
time in his New Orleans home with his wife and son. It's heartbreaking to think that he might not have found the happiness in life that so many people...
Convention Center that afternoon and will likely take part in the show, and Stephens said M. Ward, John Doe, Chris Stamey and R.E.M.'s Mike Mills are ...
. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration. Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing con...
. I believe this is why he loved working in the studio- producing records. He spoke a lot about John Frye teaching him how to do work in the studio an...
Photos by Ryan Dombal. Above, from top left: Evan Dando, Mike Mills, M. Ward, Ken Stringfellow, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, John Doe, the Watson Twins, S...
, sadness. Survival mode. Rock guitar players are all dead men walking. It's only a matter of time, I tell myself as I finger my calluses. Those who f...
Some of Big Star founder Alex Chilton's final recordings are part of singer Christina Black's new ... Alex Chilton Tracks Unearthed for New Christina ...
and Ken Stringfellow—will be joined by a range of guests during the performance, including former Big Star ... Original Big Star Members to Reunite fo...
at this?" quipped Benson. "Rain or shine, long live Big Star." The notoriously skeptical Chilton would likely have dismissed the whole idea of a tribu...
It's been a hard year for any fan of Big Star, but there is some better news looming on the horizon. A tribute show to the band's late singer, Alex Ch...
schizophrenic) list of collaborators including Spoon, Frank Black, Lucinda Williams, Mumford & Sons, and the late Alex Chilton. He's also recorded a v...
which drew lines around the block all night. Having gained acclaim for making electronic music without laptops or programmed tracks, the two DJs, drum...
night mostly featured songs from Big Star's first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City. The performances came off more like jam sessions between frien...
Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musician...
night mostly featured songs from Big Star's first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City. The performances came off more like jam sessions between frien...
Tomorrow, a host of musicians will gather in NYC to champion a great cause and celebrate a great musician. City Winery will host Channeling Chilton: A...
Just days before he was scheduled to perform at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas with his reunited band, Big Star, Memphis musician Alex Chilton die...
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. Chilton's longtime friend...
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. Chilton's longtime friend...
told Billboard that without Chilton, there would have been no Foster & Lloyd, his duo with fellow singer-songwriter Bill Lloyd. "The Box Tops were one...
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. Chilton's longtime friend...
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. Chilton's longtime friend...
spent living in New Orleans. For the most part, it's a fascinating story of someone who willfully withdrew from public life, working only when he had ...
's death and chose to focus on remembering the undeniable work he left behind. At least, that was the case until a few days ago, when an upsetting bit...
South by Southwest drew to a close on a rare rainy, frigid Saturday (March 20) in Austin, Tx. The late Alex Chilton was memorialized by colleagues, fr...
this beautiful, strange work. As far as I can tell, Chilton wasn't much for fame -- he had it when he was 16 and singing with The Box Tops, and he was...
W. K. and buzzed-about hard rock upstarts J Roddy Walston & the Business. The Cringe, featuring Ray's husband John Cusimano, also performed while Matt...
following: Carole King, Petula Clark, Brian Wilson, the Byrds, Frederic Knight, the band Free, George Frederic Handel, Georges Muffat, Haydn and the b...
The music kicked into high gear on the second full day of the South By Southwest Music Festival + Conference in Austin, TX, though the celebrations we...
On March 26, several musicians will come together to pay tribute to Alex Chilton of Big Star roughly one year after his death. Among the artists perfo...
