Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Pete Best (Beatles). John, Paul, George and Ringo are great, but you are the Best! Read Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices, Nada Surf) in MAGNET on his early-Beatles cover band Bambi Kino (Gillard, Maplewood’s Mark Rozzo, Nada Surf’s I... more info

Antimusic Rock — Bright Eyes have released their tenth studio album Five Dice, All Threes via Dead Oceans along with a new music video for the song 'All Threes' more info

Magnet Magazine — 10 years ago today, J Mascis released Tied To A Star. Cat Power! Mark Mulcahy! Pall Jenkins! Ken Maiuri! Read our Mascis/Dinosaur Jr cover Q&A by Henry Rollins: The post J Mascis Released “Tied To A Star” 10 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magn... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 55th birthday Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Zwan, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy). Plus, Adele, Andrew WK, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Neil Diamond, Dixie Chicks, Guided By Voices, Stephen Malkmus, Run The Jewels—to name just a few. Chavez photo for MAGNET by... more info

Stereogum — In 2020, Bright Eyes released Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was , a fittingly apocalyptic album for the weird year. Today, the band is announcing its follow-up, Five Dice, All Threes, out September 20. The lead single, “Bells And Whist... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Drive-By Truckers, Frank Black, et al). Merchant of ivory The post Happy Birthday Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Drive-By Truckers, ... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Noel Gallagher (Oasis, High Flying Birds). Stop the clocks. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Check out Cat Power taking on Oasis at MAGNET: The post Happy Birthday Noel Gallagher (Oasis, High Flying Birds) appeared first on Magnet Mag... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — What happens when a renowned collaborator records a solo album? That’s the question when considering Jim White’s first solo endeavor, All Hits: Memories. White first came to prominence as the drummer for the seminal Australian band Dirty Three an... more info

Stereogum — Before Michigan, there was New Jersey. Sometimes, at the end of his workweek, Sufjan Stevens would take his songs and hop on a bus out of Brooklyn. He was living in New York’s buzziest borough at the dawn of the 2000s — if not the most excitin... more info

Stereogum — Last month, the Australian drummer Jim White announced his solo debut All Hits: Memories, which arrives after decades of White being a part of the Dirty Three and Xylouris White and lending out his drumming talents to the likes of PJ Harvey, Cat P... more info