Magnet Magazine — 15 years ago today, American Music Club released The Golden Age. Keep the good times rolling. Read Mark Eitzel in MAGNET on Bird Of Youth, Buzzcocks, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Giant Sand, Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Presley, R.E.M., Judee Sill, Patt... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Mark Eitzel (American Music Club). We’ll break the champagne across the bow. Read Eitzel in MAGNET on Bird Of Youth, Buzzcocks, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Giant Sand, Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Presley, R.E.M., Judee Sill, Patti Smi... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — We’re back. The weather is beginning to turn. We’re almost there. Welcome to the September edition of the Transmissions podcast. On this episode, we sit down with three legends of independent music: psychedelic singer/songwriter Robyn H... more info

KEXP Seattle — For the past 40 years, John Doe has done it all, from fronting legendary punk band X to acting in TV and film. On his twelfth solo album, The Westerner, he found inspiration in the desert around him in Tucson, Arizona, where he was recording with How... more info

Stereogum — Describing the music of Howe Gelb as “alt-country” doesn’t do justice to the immense, genre-spanning catalogue that he’s amassed over his band Giant Sand’s 30 years in existence. True, Gelb has put out several great records within the roots... more info

KEXP Seattle — Howe Gelb is a goddamn institution. Over the past three decades he has released 25 albums with the mercurial outfit Giant Sand (originally known as Giant Sandworm, most lately known as Giant Giant Sand), and almost as many albums under his own name (... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Our Longshots series returns with two of the more prolific voices working in music today — Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth and Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb; both of whom just saw album releases this year, Blood Oaths of the New Blues and Tucson, res... more info

Impose Magazine — If you are reading this after December 12, 2012, then congratulations on surviving yet another overrated doomsday prediction. In fact, you deserve a purple heart for getting through 2012 alone. But now get ready for that festivus time of year where t... more info

Topix — Of all the pretentiously unpretentious artistes in indie rock, Giant Sand's Howe Gelb seems like the least likely to do a concept album. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Last month's "Algiers" may be Calexico's first record with Los Angeles-based Anti- Records, but for this Arizona outfit the deal represents something of a homecoming. Joey Burns and John Convertino originally met in L.A. when both were playing as mem... more info