Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Billy Childish. Thee renaissance man. Read Spider Stacy (Pogues) in MAGNET on Billy: The post Happy Birthday Billy Childish appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Stereogum — Underground UK garage rock impressario Billy Childish put Thee Headcoatees together back in 1991, long before the term “UK garage” took on a completely different meaning. The project was a sort of DIY-punk approximation of the old svengali girl-g... more info

Magnet Magazine — MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year 1) The Saints (I’m) Stranded (In The Red)2) X Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)3) The Linda Lindas No Obligation (Epitaph)4) Ramones The 1975 Sire Demos (Rhino)5) Billy Childish From Fossil... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 65th birthday Billy Childish. Thee renaissance man. Read Spider Stacy (Pogues) in MAGNET on Billy: The post Happy 65th Birthday Billy Childish appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Uncut — Josh T Pearson, Billy Childish, Lucy Dacus and more to play the Wiltshire bash Photo by Eliot Lee Hazel Josh T Pearson, Billy Childish, Lucy Dacus and more to play the Wiltshire bash The post End Of The Road festival reveals raft of new names ap... more info

Uncut — Starring Beck, The Jacksons, Neil Finn, The KLF, Andrew Weatherall, Michael Head, Billy Childish, Woody Guthrie, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, and four other guys… Starring Beck, The Jacksons, Neil Finn, The KLF, Andrew Weatherall, Michael Hea... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like SaltPeople who know things have been talking about the Halifax trio for a while, and now signed to Heavenly they've decided to abandon protocol and just go for it off the bat with an eight and a half minute debut ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — George Saunders discussed his favorite books at The Week. NPR Music is streaming Wye Oak's new album Shriek. The New Statesman profiles author Hilary Mantel. The Quietus interviewed multi-talented musician and artist Billy Childish. Celebrate the Dyl... more info

KEXP Seattle — I suppose I should have done this album in the run-up to the Sub Pop 25th mania of recent weeks, but it’s still their 25th anniversary summer, right? Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoats might be the band that started the librarian-antagonizing trend ... more info

Impose Magazine — When I think of labels that changed music both for myself and the entire landscape of the indie underground, I think of Crypt reissuing some of the best garage rock from the 1960s, then putting out albums by bands like The Gories, Oblivions, and vari... more info