Detroit Free Press — "Detours" has the lowdown on the Fair Lane Folk Festival, which hits Dearborn on Saturday with headliner Justin Townes Earle and many others. Plus, talking Detroit hip-hop with LXL, and the Weekend Top 5.             more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Hinds at MHOW in 2015 (more by Amanda Hatfield) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Hinds @ Palisades Spanish band Hinds release their debut album this week... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Justin Townes Earle at PACE University in 2012 (more by Tracy Allison) Father and son musicians Steve Earle and Justin Townes Earle  will be doing an autism benefit on December 14 at Town Hall with Jackson Browne (tickets) . They've... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Gov't Mule at Lockn' 2015 (via) Virginia's Lockn' Festival wrapped up Sunday (9/13) after two successful previous days. The biggest highlight of day 3 was another set from Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and his band... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Total Control show at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Lust for Youth, Sannhet and Flesh World go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Albert Hammond Jr. show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Blake Mills w/ Fiona Apple at LPR in 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Among the recently-announced Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2015 schedule is a very cool show that has Fiona Apple, members of Nickel Creek and more performing... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Justin Townes Earle's Absent Fathers is a companion disc to his Single Mothers album, released last year. Mark Ronson's Uptown Special contains lyrics by author Michael Chabon. Archival releases include Lou Reed's Hassled in April: Live in Chicago 19... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Interpol's El Pintor is the week's standout release. Hiss Golden Messenger's Lateness of Dancers, Justin Townes Earle's Single Mothers, and Karen O's Crush Songs are also new albums I can recommend. Reissues include mono vinyl editions of ten Beatles... more info

Time — Jason Isbell & Amanda Shire, Low, Trampled by Turtles, Justin Townes Earle and more contribute to the album more info

Brooklyn Vegan — It took us a minute to fully realize it, but since losing Webster Hall, Bowery Presents has been booking shows at the similarly sized Manhattan venue Stage 48. You may already realize this. You may not care. Regardless, it's... more info