LargeHeartedBoy — LitHub interviewed Maggie Nelson about her new memoir The Argonauts. Stream new music from Dawes. The Nervous Breakdown interviewed author Jillian Lauren. The Washington Post recommended hipster albums to put your baby to sleep. CarolineLeavittville ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Morrissey/Blondie show at MSG go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Jessica Pratt and Ryley Walker show at Le Poisson Rouge go on sale today at 10 AM. Jessica's Union Pool show is sold... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dawes at Central Park Summerstage in 2014 (more by Mimi Hong) Folk rockers Dawes recently announced their fourth full-length, All Your Favorite Bands, out June 2 via the band's HUB label. They've now shared the album's first single "Things Happen"... more info

Stereogum — The New Basement Tapes — aka the supergroup made up of Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Marcus Mumford, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, and Carolina Chocolate Drop’s Rhiannon Giddens — made their first late-night TV appearance on Fal... more info

Stereogum — “Liberty Street” is the latest refurbished Bob Dylan rarity to be shared from Lost On The River, the collection of Basement Tapes scraps fleshed out by all-star cast of musicians known as the New Basement Tapes. Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith to... more info

Mercury News, California — At 65 and a point in his career when many stars repeat comfortable routines, Jackson Browne remains part of a busy community full of youthful L.A. roots-music types, where he jams with up-and-comers such as Jonathan Wilson, Jenny Lewis and the folk-r... more info

Stereogum — Conor Oberst is such a big deal that he can summon two different buzz bands to back him up at will. Or at least that was the case when he recorded a recent live session at the Haldern Pop Festival. Performing lazily luminous acoustic version of his 2... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Mimi Hong Conor Oberst, Dawes & Larkin Poe @ Summerstage -- 7/29/14 "Each stage of Oberst's career is intentionally different than previous iterations (we are talking about the guy that released an electronic and acoustic album on the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Conor Oberst in Chicago in May (more by James Richards IV) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Conor Oberst, Dawes @ Central Park Summerstage The brains behind the... more info

Stereogum — Old Hundred sprung up from the fervent Columbus DIY scene that also spawned Saintseneca, All Dogs, Van Dale and numerous other Ohio greats. For the past half-decade they’ve been kicking out deftly layered rustic anthems, exploring life’s big ques... more info