Popdose — There’s much to celebrate about Pissing Stars, the second solo LP – out today on Constellation Records – from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion co-founder Efrim Manuel Menuck. Let it be celebrated, then: this is an underworld... more info

DrownedInSound — He takes the grandeur of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s music and distils it down to a heady, potent concentrate more info

The Quietus — Diamanda Galás and Godspeed You! Black Emperor are amongst the highlights of the first lineup announcement for next year's Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee more info

Stereogum — The avant-garde music festival Big Ears will return to Knoxville, TN for its seventh year in 2018. The fest runs 3/22-25, and tickets go on sale this Friday at 10AM EST here. The lineup this year includes Arto Lindsay, Julie Byrne, Diamanda Galás, R... more info

DrownedInSound — A condemnation of this sick world and a dream of a happier new one more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Chelsea Wolfe's Hiss Spun, The Clientele's Music For The Age Of Miracles, Hiss Golden Messenger's Hallelujah Anyhow, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Luciferian Towers, Josh Ritter's Gathering, and Shout Out Louds' Ease My Mind are the new albums I can.... more info

Popdose — It’s starting to become the definition of stasis. Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a new LP, Luciferian Towers, the band’s sixth, today on Constellation Records and, while it’s certainly far from a dud, it sounds like the Montreal crescendo... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In some ways, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and 2017 were made for each other. On the one hand, the Canadian agit-rock instrumental collective has decried rampant capitalism, the military industrial complex and what it considers a crumbling world since... more info

Stereogum — The Houston-based Day For Night festival is entering its third year, and it just announced a stacked lineup. Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, St. Vincent, Tyler The Creator, James Blake, Justice, Phantogram, Pussy Riot, the Jesus Lizard, Laurie Anderson,... more info

Stereogum — Next week, the great Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor return with "Luciferian Towers" , their newest towering, moving instrumental album. GY!BE have been making monolithic, tough-to-categorize music -- it gets called "post-rock," but ... more info