Brooklyn Vegan — by Doug Moore YOB at the Bell House, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) As we've said before, Oregonian psych-doom unit YOB may be the best slow-and-heavy band around today. Among their many accomplishments is the role they've played in the... more info

NME — NPR session also includes a performance of Townes Van Zandt's 'Colorado Girl' more info

Stereogum — If you care even a little about the ongoing health of folky singer-songwriter music, Laura Marling is your girl. Her 2013 album Once I Was An Eagle was one of the best recent examples of the genre in action, and she might already have new music in th... more info

Stereogum — When he was recovering from his band’s horrific bus crash in 2012, Baroness frontman John Baizley had to relearn how to play guitar, and he claims that he did so by playing along with the music of Townes Van Zandt, the great country-folk singer-son... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — In 2008 Vetiver released Thing of the Past, a collection of a dozen covers mining lost 60s and 70s folk treasures. Sourcing material from the likes of Bobby Charles, Townes Van Zandt, Michael Hurley, Elyse and beyond, in addition its own charms, the... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Though he made plenty of them over his career, Townes Van Zandt was not particularly interested in studio recordings. He was a songwriter first and foremost, a performer second, and a record-maker a distant third, preferring to let producers and sess... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — There’s a collection of unreleased Townes Van Zandt recordings from 1971-72 coming out in a few weeks. I haven’t heard a note of it, but I’m going to go out on a limb and call it one of the best releases of 2013. The years 1968-1973 were Van Za... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Andrew Bird is setting out to tour his upcoming album, Hands of Glory, but not in the typical fashion. Bird’s tour will be funded by the crowd through a contest on Songkick. Hands of Glory is the companion piece to Break It Yourself, which was re... more info

Prefix — Some names immediately sound punk. Slug Guts is one of them. The name showed up randomly in my inbox, but ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/features/slug-guts-social-distortion-the-stooges-townes-van-zandt/slug-guts-are-punk-as-h... more info

DrownedInSound — It’s difficult to see a place for this in anyone’s collection. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info