L.A. Times - Entertainment — The harpist, pianist and singer, who has crafted a body of work that sounds like none other, stirs fans ardor and fills the hall with precisely rendered melodies. ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The harpist, pianist and singer, who has crafted a body of work that sounds like none other, stirs fans’ ardor and fills the hall with precisely rendered melodies. On Saturday at L.A.'s ornate Orpheum Theatre, the downtown venue originally built... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The San Francisco Chronicle interviews singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom. Author Jennifer Egan shares a food diary with Grub Street. The Los Angeles Times explores the cassette tape revival. The Guardian interviews Richard Ashcroft. The Boston Globe re... more info

KEXP Seattle — Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes has released a 14 minutes black and white documentary of his current tour as the opening act for Joanna Newsom.The video is available for viewing on the Fleet Foxes web site. Phil Selway, famous as the drummer for Radi... more info

Guardian Music — (Caprice)Josefine Lindstrand, the Swedish singer, is a graduate of Denmark's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, the innovative establishment where Django Bates put his own special spin on the role of professor. But though she's been a key member of Bates... more info

Stereogum — Yep, it’s summer. You know it is because of how everybody’s losing power in Brooklyn and because of how everybody’s making summer mixes. There’s Cruel Summer, there’s the morning benders’ ode to heat culture via Arthur Russell and Avalanc... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Chris Chu of the benders made a summer playlist called EchoMix1 for blog Sam Mayday. It includes songs that gave Chris good summer vibes. He even offered up his own cover of Joanna Newsom’s “Have One on Me”, played over J Dilla’s “U-Love”... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — The Morning Benders frontman Christopher Chu made a summery mix for music blog Say Mayday, with the following directive: "If you put this mix on backwards and play it while you eat a bowl of cereal, you'll see your entire future." Early results are ... more info

Stereogum — ‘Tis the season for summer mixes. I made mine, the morning benders’ Chris Chu put one together for L.A.-based site Say Mayday. Plenty to love in there, like the Avalanches, Twin Sister, Bibio, Arthur Russell. The thing is, when you get Chu to mak... more info

Altsounds — This one's kind of a great story; the ladies in Uganda had covered Joe Purdy's "Suitcase," then Joe covered REM, and then Mike Mills did Billy's "Sing Their Souls Back Home." Shortly afterwards Mike saw Billy at SXSW, told him he had covered his ... more info