Popdose — Every once in awhile I have the opportunity to report on an artist who continues to grow and evolve with each new release. It’s one of the most gratifying things about what I do. Josh Ritter is such an artist. On his new album, So Runs the World Aw... more info

411 Mania — I know how the 411 readership loves their poetry. But give Josh Ritter a chance anyway.... come on, it's good for you. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Heaven Is Whenever, the Hold Steady's fifth album, is in stores tomorrow. The Hold Steady's Heaven Is Whenever isn't the only standout release this week. New albums by the New Pornographers (Together) and Josh Ritter (So Runs the World... more info

Totally Fuzzy — G O D said... LCXME-the lee county experimental music ensemble-fact,hope,and conviction-2 lengthy pieces of experimental ,free-form,art-noise! THE 6TH STREET MUNTUS-flingin' zingers-more free-jazz,experiments from the ever-changing line-up that alway... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 04-30 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews05-01 Omaha, NE - Slowdown05-07 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center06-01 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern06-02 Washington, DC - Black Cat06-03 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House 06-06 Chicago, IL - Do Division Fes... more info

Guardian Music — (Pytheas)The centrepiece of Josh Ritter's fifth album is a piece of folkloric daring. Under the title of Folk Bloodbath, he gathers together the key figures of American murder ballads into one song and interweaves their stories, using a refrain from ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — After a long and rainy week spent out of town, I've been submerging myself ear-deep into tons of Record Store Day releases ever since returning home to my record player. Perhaps the best treat of this year's vinyl holiday was Josh Ritter sending an ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — This is shaping up to be one of the largest/greatest years in the holiday's history, with so many releases and exclusive content to chose from it's really hard to remain calm. It's a great day for independent record store owners, almost serving as ... more info

Chorus.fm — Clips of *Josh Ritter (http://absolutepunk.net/joshritter)*'s new album So Runs the World Away are available here (http://www.amazon.com/So-Runs-The-World-Away/dp/B003CJ66YK/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1271299785&sr=8-26). Submitted by Nipmock more info

Pitchfork — Veteran singer-songwriter John Prine gets the tribute-album treatment with Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 on Prine's own Oh Boy imprint. It features My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Bon Iver... more info