LargeHeartedBoy — Beach House's second album of the year, Thank Your Lucky Stars, is the week's new music highlight. Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi's Cold Moon, Deerhunter's Fading Frontier, Josh Ritter's Sermon on the Rocks, Keep Shelly in Athens's Now I’m... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to The Cure and The Twilight Sad show at MSG go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Joanna Newsom and Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi show at Kings Theatre go on sale today at 10 AM.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to The Cure and The Twilight Sad show at MSG show go on local and Chase presale stoday at 10 AM (password: "DISINTEGRATION"). Tickets for the Joanna Newsom and Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi show at Kings Theatre... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo by Annabel Mehran We've already heard two songs from the much-anticipated new Joanna Newsom album, Divers (due 10/23 via Drag City), and now Joanna has announced a tour in support of it with Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi opening.... more info

Stereogum — Alela Diane is a woman who understands uncertainty. In the past four years, she’s grappled with the kind of devastating, tumultuous circumstances that would bench most people, yet she’s emerged with three albums during these shifts. I first came ... more info

DrownedInSound — About Farewell is an intensely personal album. In part the result of Alela Diane going through a divorce with her ex-husband and former collaborator Tom Bevitori, it is also a clear move away from the larger band sound she explored on 2011’s Wild D... more info

Consequence of Sound — Just the word "Skinhead" evokes troubling connotation. Hark Skin's satirical take on the Oi! genre, featuring all-female guest vocalists like Joanna Newsom and Alela Diane, asks for not only Oi!, but all art to be considered on its own terms. more info

KEXP Seattle — Another light summer week of new releases, but there’s a handful hitting shelves today that you’ll definitely want to check out. Portland singer-songwriter Alela Diane tops the list with her fourth album of heartbreaking (and broken) folk-pop, hi... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Alela Diane's About Farewell is not only my favorite release of the week, but also one of the summer's finest new albums. Also out this week are solo albums by Dead Confederate frontman T. Hardy Morris (Audition Tapes) and... more info

Nialler9 — Nevada City, California native Alela Diane’s 2009 album To Be Still is one of my favourite folk albums of the last five years, one I really should get on vinyl sometime. Since that time, she’s recorded a 2011 album with her band Wild Divine. This... more info