Stereogum — "Genesis 3:23" was our first taste of the Mountain Goats' Biblical exercise The Life Of The World To Come. If you recall, the homelessness of the lead track's lyrics correspond to the highlighted verse: "So the Lord God banished him from the Garde... more info

The Music Fix — Review: The kings of croon return. more info

Guardian Music — Folk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making familyKate McGarrigle, who has died aged 63, was a luminous singer and songwriter whose partnership with her sister Anna produced some of the most attractive and memorable music to... more info

Stereogum — Pedagogically minded San Francisco septet Citay's third album Dream Get Together inspired a writing project of the same name. As their label Dead Oceans notes, a dream get together could very well refer to "the concept of an ideal musical pairing, or... more info

The Quietus — Vancouver quintet to play End Of The Road show more info

NME — 24 new acts announced for September Dorset event more info

The Playlist — South Korea-born, LA-raised filmmaker So Yong Kim is one of the more exciting indie directors on her way up at present - we named her as one to watch a few months back, after her haunting, compassionate films "In Between Days" and "Treeless Mountain.... more info

Sale Price: $37.48 (50% Off) Retail Price: $74.95 The North Face Womens Mountain Ropey Ballet Shoe has a rope-like upper and climbing-shoe-inspired rubber heel and toe guards so you can show your love of the rock even when youre not at the crag. more info

'A Mountain of Crumbs' by Elena Gorokhova Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 In her memoir of growing up absurd in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and '70s, Elena Gorokhova recounts a childhood of precocious skepticism. In her native Leningrad, the budding more info

L.A. Times - News — Four storms are expected to move through the region between Sunday and Friday. Mountain thoroughfares will be closed and residents of foothill communities are urged to prepare for evacuation. ... more info