Stereogum — The Polaris Music Prize, awarded annually to Canada’s best album of the year, has been controversial in recent years. Godspeed You! Black Emperor rejected and criticized the prize in 2013, and at last year’s ceremony, winner Tanya Tagaq proclaime... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Raleigh, NC's annual Hopscotch Music Festival returns this year from September 10-12, and today the lineup was announced. It includes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Godflesh, X, TV on the Radio, Deerhunter, Battles, Roky Erickson, Old Man Gloom, Le1f, ... more info

Stereogum — Hopscotch Music Festival returns for its sixth year in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina this September. This morning the official lineup has been revealed, and since the festival always strives to book a diverse, locally-focused selection of artists,... more info

Stereogum — When a big and great album comes out, and when we give that big and great album a Premature Evaluation, I often use this space to point out that the album you’ll be reading about below isn’t the real album of the week; it’s the one that ended u... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Sufjan Stevens's Carrie & Lowell is the week's premiere release. Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, Lower Dens' Escape From Evil, Ryley Walker's Primrose Green, and Simon Joyner's Grass, Branch, & Bone are other albums I... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Elvis Costello's memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink will be published in October. The Guardian is streaming the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. The Guardian profiled author Erik Larson. Decoder intervi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Godspeed You! Black Emperor's fifth album and followup to their 2012 comeback album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, will be out next week on Constellation, but the band is now streaming it in full ahead of its release. Listen,... more info

Stereogum — Next week, Canadian post-rock superheroes Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their new album Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the follow-up to 2012’s beautiful, overwhelming Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! We’ve posted an excerpt from th... more info

Nialler9 — Godspeed You! Black Emperor are playing Vicar Street in April but it won’t be a full-on back catalogue-fest as the Montreal post-rock band have announced Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, their first album in three years will be released on Const... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Windham Campbell Prizes, including Largehearted Book Notes contributors Teju Cole and Ivan Vladislavic. Stream new music from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's forthcoming album Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress... more info