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Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist of Big Star, one of the most influential rock groups to emerge from the early 1970s, has passed away at the age of 59. Chilton reportedly suffered a heart attack today in New Orleans, just days before Big Star were scheduled to perform at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. Chilton had been complaining about his health earlier in the day, and was eventually taken to a New Orleans hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Big Star drummer Jody Stephens confirmed Chilton’s passing, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal reports. “Alex passed away a couple of hours ago,” Stephens said. “I don’t have a lot of particulars, but they kind of suspect that it was a heart attack.”

Chilton began his musical career in his teens as a member of the Box Tops before returning to his native Memphis to form Big Star with guitarist/co-songwriter Chris Bell, drummer Jody Stephens and bassist Andy Hummel. Blending power pop with the sound of the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Big Star were critically acclaimed but largely ignored commercially. In their short time together in the early-’70s — though Bell exited the band after #1 Record, Hummel after Radio City — Big Star only released three studio albums, but what three incredible albums they were: 1972’s #1 Record, 1974’s Radio City and 1978’s dark but beautiful Third/Sister Lovers all placed on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and their classic tracks “Thirteen” and “September Gurls” both made the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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While they only lasted a few years, Big Star’s impact continues to reverberate decades later. R.E.M. and the Replacements both named Big Star and Alex Chilton as major influences, and the Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me features a song titled “Alex Chilton.” Chilton became a cult musical icon, and artists as diverse as Beck, Wilco, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Cheap Trick, Jeff Buckley, Garbage, Bat For Lashes and Whiskeytown have covered Big Star’s songs. Renewed interest in the band’s music led to a reunion of sorts in the early ’90s and a new album in 2005’s In Space, which featured two members of the Posies, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer. Just last year, a box set celebrating Big Star’s entire catalog, Keep an Eye on the Sky was released.

“It’s not like I’m a ‘big star’ constantly getting noticed, but I do get recognized,” Chilton told Rolling Stone in 2000 of the fame that eluded Big Star during their first years together. “What’s nice is that the people in my neighborhood just know me as Alex. It’s funny, because I spent so much of my life moving from place to place and I went through a few dark periods, but in the last few years I’ve kind of settled down.” Chilton is survived by his wife Laura and son Timothy.

For more on Chilton’s musical legacy, watch a handful of Big Star classics below, and be sure to remember Alex by looking back at our Rolling Stone features below:

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Alex Chilton, the singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his work in the Box Tops and Big Star, has passed away. According to Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, the 59-year-old died at a New Orleans hospital from what is believed to have been a heart attack.

Chilton, a Memphis native, rose to fame at only 16 years old when the Box Tops had a chart-topping hit with ‘The Letter’ in 1967. After the group split in 1970, Chilton helped form rock-pop group Big Star, consisting of several Memphis-area musicians.

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Vancouver’s own Bison B.C. have finished recording their third album, ‘Dark Ages,’ which they’d been working on for several months at Hive Studios. The four-piece band worked with Jesse Gardner, who recorded both of their prior releases. “He’s taking us on a dark, mystical, next level s— kinda journey,” vocalist Dan And recently told Noisecreep in a studio update last December. “And [he's] going so far as to even help me out with some arranging quagmires.” The album will be titled ‘Dark Ages’ and has a release date set for April 13 on Metal Blade Records.

In the previous update, And added that “musically, the tunes are leaning towards the ‘thrash-doom-sludge-crust-pop-punk-noise-classic-rock side of things.’” After releasing their first album with just a little over 1,000 copies printed, their sophomore came out in 2008 on a freshly-inked deal with Metal Blade. ‘Quiet Earth’ combines a variety of sludge, thrash, stoner and doom angles in their sound and was really impressive for, at the time, a relatively unknown band.

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