KEXP Seattle — Drive-By Truckers have shared some new details about their upcoming album American Band (out September 30). The Southern rockers drew inspiration from last year’s mass shootings in South Carolina and Oregon and our country’s relationship with the... more info

Stereogum — The long-running Southern rock cult heroes Drive-By Truckers have always had a lot to say about Southern identity, and various differing ideas about Southern identity have been causing our country some serious problems lately. Today, the band announc... more info

Rolling Stone — While the sun scorched and the dust swirled, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit played one of Bonnaroo's final sets last Sunday afternoon, moving between mid-tempo ballads like "Traveling Alone" and Drive By Truckers throwbacks like "Never Gonna Change" a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Innovative hip-hop band The Roots and alt-country group Drive-By Truckers are set to headline the 2016 edition of NYC's Lowdown Hudson Music Fest, an annual free event held at Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza on the Hudson River. The two day fe... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bookforum interviewed author Darryl Pinckney. Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers wrote about David Bowie's songwriting at American Songwriter, eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: Emma Donoghue's Landing Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vo... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian interviewed poet Claudia Rankine. Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers on Vic Chesnutt. 32 year-end "best books of 2015" lists were added to the Largehearted Boy master aggregation yesterday (bringing the total number of lists represe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Maxwell and Nas shows Barclays Center and Prudential Center go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Drive-By Truckers show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon. Tickets for DIIV... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — ">Tickets for the Migos show at Irving Plaza go on Live Nation/Music Geeks presale today at 10 AM (passwords = BELLS and MUSICGEEKS). Tickets for the Fetty Wap ">show at Irving Plaza go on Live Nation/Ticketmaster presale today at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Drive-By Truckers at The Paramount in 2014 (more by Greg Cristman) Alt-country band Drive-By Truckers recently released a live record, the triple-disc It's Great to Be Alive!, and will soon start work on their next LP. They're also going... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Spoon's remastered and expanded edition of Gimme Fiction is the week's standout release, along with box sets from Amy Winehouse, Drive-By Truckers, Mark Lanegan, and Miles Davis. Grimes' Art Angels and Ryan Adams: 1989 are both available on vinyl.... more info