The Music Fix — News Flash: Midlanders 'frantically disembowel American alt-rock' it sez here. Good lads!Max Raptor issue 'The Great and The Good' on download on 26 April. The track has been produced by Sam Bell, whose studio credits include Bloc Party, REM, Snow Pa... more info

The Music Fix — Capsule Review: Robyn Hitchcock winds it up.The poet of weird returns with one of his more fully realised albums in a long while, Propeller Time. With a whole host of guest musicians including R.E.M.'s Pete Buck, Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellow... more info

Guardian Music — Evan Dando, REM's Mike Mills and many more joined the surviving members of Big Star for a memorial gig to the band's Alex Chilton, who died on WednesdayAlex Chilton may have missed his concert at SXSW on Saturday, but his friends were there, celebrat... more info

NME — Members of REM, The Lemonheads pay tribute to Alex Chilton more info

Pitchfork — 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, Sondre Lerche, Chuck Prophet, Chris Stamey, and Curt Kirkwood.A Tribute to Alex Chilton and Big Star ... more info

MTV.com News — Members of R.E.M., Meat Puppets, She & Him join the rest of Big Star to remember the late Chilton.By James Montgomery Alex Chilton Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage AUSTIN, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Satu... more info

Guardian Music — Big Star's singer had an impact far beyond his band's commercial appeal"I am the world's forgotten boy," howled Iggy Pop on "Search and Destroy". But as the years, and then the decades, went by and his legend grew in his absence, that description see... more info

NME — Cheap Trick, John Doe rumoured for show more info

MTV.com News — Surviving Big Star bandmates, members of R.E.M., She & Him and others will play in an all-star tribute band.By Gil Kaufman Alex Chilton Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage Members of R.E.M., X and She & Him will join the surviving members of Bi... more info

VH1 News — A tribute to the late Alex Chilton scheduled for Saturday at the SXSW festival in Austin will include members of R.E.M., She & Him and others. more info