Mercury News, California — Blind Boys of Alabama, Neko Case, Fantastic Negrito among recommended acts appearing at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco. more info

Mercury News, California — Joe Jackson, Vince Gill, Neko Case, Hot Tuna, Boz Scaggs among the acts appearing at the festival. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Neko Case is reissuing her entire catalog on vinyl as a box set titled Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule which will be released via Anti on November 13. All eight titles, most of which have been out of print for some... more info

Mercury News, California — Also on tap: Psychedelic Furs, The Church, Neko Case, The Damned, Edgar Winter, Dam-Funk. more info

Stereogum — Adult Swim’s gross-out, absurdist cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force will wrap up its 11 season run this Sunday, and they’ve gotten Patti Smith to sing a farewell ode to the show that will play during the finale. Over the years, Aqua Teen has ... more info

Stereogum — Every Other Summer, a new documentary about Wilco’s three-day Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA, is now available to rent or buy via Vimeo On Demand. Directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty, the film documents the most rece... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by P Squared Photography Neko Case / Rhye / Majical Cloudz @ 50 Kent The first of Northside's big concerts at 50 Kent, which were presented by Century 21, happened on Friday (6/12) with songwriter (and New Pornographer) Neko... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Neko Case with New Pornographers @ Hammerstein 2014 (more by Chris La Putt) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... The Northside Festival's four-day takeover of North Brooklyn... more info

Stereogum — Describing the music of Howe Gelb as “alt-country” doesn’t do justice to the immense, genre-spanning catalogue that he’s amassed over his band Giant Sand’s 30 years in existence. True, Gelb has put out several great records within the roots... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Seattle's 2015 Bumbershoot Festival will happen on Labor Day Weekend (September 5-7). This year's lineup includes Faith No More, The Weeknd, Brand New, Social Distortion, Flying Lotus, Babes in Toyland, The Melvins, Neko Case, Minus the Bear, Chance ... more info