Consequence Of Sound — The open letter includes signatures from over 1,000 Swedish artists. Robyn, Fever Ray, and First Aid Kit Call for Israel to Be Banned from Eurovision 2024 Paolo Ragusa more info

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2012 was a bit of a weird year. It was the most difficult of these to compile, if that's any judge (not helped by Words And Music By Saint Etienne's absence from Spotify) The London Olympics seemed to be treated as some as an unnecessary dist... more info

Tuneage — musicforants: This past weekend in my neck of the woods, temperatures dropped nearly 50 degrees overnight, and with the drastic weather change, along with all the colorful foliage and seasonal beverages, it’s the perfect time to switch from e... more info

Stereogum — Since Silver Jews and Purple Mountains leader David Berman passed away a couple months ago, a lot of artists have paid tribute to the late musician by covering his songs. Those artists have included his one-time Silver Jews bandmate Stephen Malkmus, ... more info

Stereogum — David Berman, who founded the legendary indie band Silver Jews and relaunched his career this year with a new project called Purple Mountains, died by suicide last month. Since then, a number of admirers have covered Berman's songs in tribute, includ... more info

Stereogum — Another musical act has come forward to profess their admiration for the late David Berman by covering his music. Berman, the creative force behind Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, died by suicide earlier this month. Since then a range of musicians ... more info

JamBase — Listen to First Aid Kit’s cover of Silver Jews’ “Random Rules” and the new original “Strange Beauty” written for the late David Berman. more info

Consequence of Sound — Swedish folk duo take on Silver Jews' 1998 track "Random Rules" in honor of Berman. First Aid Kit pay tribute to David Berman with Silver Jews cover and new song “Strange Beauty”: Stream Lake Schatz more info

Stereogum — The late David Berman touched far more people than he probably realized. One way you can see that is in the range of artists who've covered Silver Jews songs since Berman died by suicide two weeks ago. On one hand you have Dominic Palermo from Philly... more info