Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Bobby Bare Jr. (Guided By Voices, Young Criminals Starvation League). You look like a bear, but nobody cares. Read the Yawpers in MAGNET on Bloodshot labelmates Bare, Banditos, Lydia Loveless, Cory Branan, Robbie Fulks, Scott H. Biram,... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League released From The End Of Your Leash. Country stars play Japanese guitars. Read the Yawpers in MAGNET on Bloodshot labelmates Bare, Banditos, Lydia Loveless, Cory Branan, Robbi... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — All photos by Adam Heller Missouri rockers Ha Ha Tonka recently returned this year with new album Heart-Shaped Mountain via Bloodshot Records. The group (who recently performed on Conan) stopped in to Brooklyn to play a show at Knitting Factory in su... more info

Chicago Tribune — Even rock stars grow up. Just ask the men in Ha Ha Tonka. Since the Missouri-based band's last album in 2013, most of its five members have paired up, fathered children and settled into their mid-to-late 30s. The maturity wrought from these milestone... more info

Allmusic Blog — ​The adventurous band from Missouri opens up its sound with its fifth album, proving the band is still a cut above other bands that fuse indie with Americana. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — New single "All With You" is a nice dose of clean-sounding indie folk with some massive post-Arcade Fire harmonies in the chorus. Continue reading… more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Fall brings big release weeks, and this week I can strongly recommend Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe, Deer Tick's Negativity, Ha Ha Tonka's Lessons, Lovers' A Friend In the World, Oh Land's Wishbone, and Sarah Jarosz's Build... more info

USA Today Music — The group releases new album 'Lessons' on Sept. 24. more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: Ha Ha Tonka Video: "Lonely Fortunes" Highlight: "We've wanted to shoot a video in our namesake Ha Ha Tonka State Park for a while now," mandolinist Brett Anderson tells Spinner. "It was our director Brook Linder's... more info

Detroit Free Press — Afrojack with R3hab and Bobby Burns at the Fillmore Detroit Bass Invaders at Majestic Theatre Langhorne Slim and the Law with Ha Ha Tonka at the Pike Room Pewter Cub with the Handgrenades and Crappy Future at Magic Stick Yelawolf with Dagda at ... more info