Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to new holiday songs by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mark Kozelek, Le Couleur, White Town, Darren Hayman, William Shatner & Billy Gibbons, Phoebe Bridgers, The Beths, Wavves, and more. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — Last one of these for the year as by the end of December we'll be busy with end of year list season (oh, and some religious doowotsit), so here come 25 tracks we love that passed under the general radar this eleventh month: Angelic Milk - Celebra... more info

The Quietus — Watch a film from the Thankful Village of Wysall below, and read some words by Darren Hayman reflecting on it and the project as a whole more info

Sweeping The Nation — Beak> - Brean DownHey, we finally have news of the new album by the Invada force! Out on 21st September, confusingly if logically being their third album it's called >>> and on this track pushes the fuzz-Kraut into the dark side, sounding like a ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — If you're a regular reader you'll know that by "other" tracks we mean those from albums that didn't make our top 50 of the year plus anything else that tickled the proverbial fancy. And yes, 200. Because we've been keeping a tally all... more info

New York Times — Darren Hayman released four albums with the indie band Hefner. Now he writes songs about the communities whose soldiers all returned home safely from World War I. more info

Sweeping The Nation — As of this weekend, an enormous crater opens up in the bedroom-insular, open air-spectacular world of indiepop as the Chance the Gardener of indie majordomo of all he surveyed Sean Price winds up his Fortuna Pop! label with a long London weekend enti... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Napoleon IIIrd - The ScrapeA quick primer, as there's always latecomers - Napoleon IIIrd is James Mabbett and both of his previous albums made number four in their respective years' STN end of year lists. The Great Lake, out 19th May, comes m... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Spectres hail from Bristol, UK and make the kind of hazy, dark din that's not too far off from what Ride or Swervedriver did in their early days. Their debut album, Dying, came out back in February... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Nick Cave at Beacon Theatre in 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Darren Hayman You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Devendra Banhart,... more info