JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlights new albums by The Flaming Lips, ALO, From Good Homes, Turkuaz and Joe Pug. more info

Stereogum — The Watkins Family Hour played a show at Newport’s Jane Pickens Theatre last Thursday, kicking off the Newport Folk Festival the night before it officially began. They brought out a bunch of friends to handle the vocals for their vaudevillian blueg... more info

Stereogum — Brandon Flowers has been doing plenty of covers as he tours in support of his new solo album The Desired Effect, including several classic songs from the likes of INXS, the Pretenders, and New Order. His latest, though, is a collaboration with a sign... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Joe Pug's Windfall and Policy by Will Butler (of Arcade Fire) are the two new albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week. Reissues include vinyl editions of six Broadcast albums (Future Crayon, Haha Sound, ...Investigate Witch Cults of the... more info

Topix — Winter just keeps hanging on--but these five shows should help you beat the February doldrums. more info

Topix — Joe Pug moved to Austin four years ago to be closer to musicians he admires, like Joe Ely, James McMurtry, and Ray Wylie Hubbard. more info

Chorus.fm — *Joe Pug (http://www.joepugmusic.com)* has joined the roster for the 2013 *Nelsonville Music Festival (http://nelsonvillefest.org)* in Nelsonville, OH. Other headliners include Wilco, Cat Power, Gogol Bordello, Sharon Van Etten and Calexico to name a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tracy Allison Justin Townes Earle @ PACE University, 10/26/2012 The day before "John McCauley and Friends" took over Carnegie's Zankel Hall on 10/27, the Deer Tick frontman joined headliner Justin Townes Earle and Joe Pug as part of... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Avett Brothers album, The Carpenter (out September 11th). The Atlantic lists literature's most desperate housewives. PopMatters interviews singer-songwriter Joe Pug. You've mentioned in other interviews that you feel like gre... more info

Twangville — ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Live At Lincoln Hall, by Joe Pug Since arriving on the singer-songwriter scene in 2008, it didn’t take long for Joe Pug to establish himself as a rising star. This live album, recorded in Chicago last spring and comprising song... more info