Magnet Magazine — 25 years ago today, Fiona Apple released When The Pawn … Thank dog for ellipses. Read our MAGNET Feedback with Robyn Hitchcock on Apple, Syd Barrett, Byrds, Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Feist, Kinks, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch, John Lennon, Nick L... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Fiona Apple. Remember that depth is the greatest of heights. Read our MAGNET Feedback with Robyn Hitchcock, writing about Apple, Syd Barrett, Byrds, Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Feist, Kinks, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch, John Lennon, N... more info

Stereogum — Anna “Nesey” Gallons, a member of the Elephant 6 collective who has performed as a solo artist and with bands such as Circulatory System and the Music Tapes, has accused Julian Koster, a member of Neutral Milk Hotel and leader of bands includi... more info

Stereogum — Every five years, Merge Records, one of the greatest independent record labels of all time, throws itself a festival in its home base of North Carolina. Merge was founded in 1989, the same summer label founders Mac MacCaughan and Laura Ballance st... more info

Stereogum — With Grammy mainstays like Taylor Swift, SZA, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo all over this year’s nominations, it can feel like same old, same old. But there are quite a few first-time nominees this year. more info

Consequence of Sound — Mangum attended the protest event with his wife Astra Taylor. Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum makes rare public appearance at NYC Climate Strike Alex Young more info

Stereogum — In 1991, a group of friends including Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum formed a musical collective and record label known as the Elephant 6 Recording Company. Defined by a penchant for the sounds of the '60s, Elephant 6 went on to recruit likeminded ... more info

Rolling Stone — During the last few years, we've been deluged with great new guitar bands, many showing an obsessive love for indie rock's early-Nineties golden age – whether it's Parquet Courts taking vintage Pavement in directions that never reall... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian interviewed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. Stereogum and Byte considered the legacy of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on its 20th anniversary. February's best eBook deals. Drowned in Sound interviewed the musical duo Fie... more info

Sweeping The Nation — In retrospect, something appears to be coming together around 1998. Three of the year's biggest music stories - George Michael's arrest, Elton John's knighthood, Geri leaving the Spice Girls - feel like the first stage of coalescing into ... more info