Sweeping The Nation — So now we've covered the best tracks of the year so far on a month by month basis, let's move on to the longform stuff. Feel free to remind us of these come the end of the year when something else from these six months overtakes the lot. Algi... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — This year saw English folk singer Laura Marling release her new album Semper Femina via More Alarming Records. It’s Marling’s six record in just nine years. In May she continued her support of the new record with a U.S. tour, which saw her return... more info

Stereogum — Chris Thile recently relaunched Garrison Keillor's old NPR show A Prairie Home Companion, and in recent weeks, the show has hosted performances from people like Laura Marling, Ryan Adams, and Jenny Lewis. On the most recent episode, Aimee Mann came t... more info

KEXP Seattle — For many years, the mantle of “most consistently stellar artist” seemed to be squarely on the shoulders of Spoon, but there’s an argument for it to be moved over, if it hasn’t already shifted, to Laura Marling. Six very good-to-great albums t... more info

Stereogum — No Effects, the podcast from Tanlines’ Jesse Cohen, returns today with episode #73 featuring guest Laura Marling. You can listen and subscribe here. To commemorate the new season, we asked Jesse to share some podcast recommendations … aside from ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — As promised when we did 1970 on Good Friday, the other end of our forty-year spectrum and a list notably more biased than most, even if its span is only the last five years, towards what STN was writing about at the time anyway. The Big Pink were the... more info

Nialler9 — Niamh Regan is a Galway singer-songwriter with a classic folk sound that stretches back to Karen Dalton but can also be heard on the newest music from Laura Marling. last year, she gave us ‘She’ in that vein and this week, Regan released a ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The always reliable English songwriter Laura Marling is back with her new album Semper Femina, which she recently released via her own label, More Alarming Records. The album is amazingly the sixth album that she’s released in just nine years, a tr... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Hurray for the Riff Raff's The Navigator is one of the year's finest albums. I can also recommend Laura Marling's Semper Femina and Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. A remastered and expanded edition of Elliott Smith's Either/Or is also... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — This week's Notable Releases include Jay Som's Polyvinyl debut, Hurray for the Riff Raff's political concept album, Laura Marling's boldly feminine album, and more. Continue reading… more info