Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: A Perfect Circle, Car Seat Headrest, Judas Priest, Steez Day, Guided by Voices, The Horrors, Code Orange, Okkervil River, Joan of Arc, Simple Minds, Gary Numan, and more tickets on sale. Continue reading… more info

JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlights new albums by Willie Nelson, Dr. Dog, Okkervil River, Nolatet, Janelle Monae and Pat Ferguson. The post Release Day Picks: April 27th New Album Highlights appeared first on JamBase. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Okkervil River, WFMU Record Fair, Sonny & the Sunsets, Minus the Bear, Half Waif, Meshell Ndegeocello, Peter Hook & The Light, Gov't Mule, Sunflower Bean, Viv Albertine, Lido Pimienta, The Zambonis and more Friday show options. Continue reading... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Simple Minds, Gary Numan, Dr. Dog/(Sandy) Alex G, Joan of Arc, and more NYC-area shows on sale today. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Trey Anastasio, My Bloody Valentine, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arctic Monkeys, A Perfect Circle, Neil Young, Moneybagg Yo, Car Seat Headrest, and more newly-announced tours. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — The band mastermind discusses the stories behind his latest album's 10 tracks. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — It's got some of their folkiest music yet, but also some of their most electronic music yet, and as we heard at SXSW, there's a song with lyrics about Ray Davies and a guitar solo that uses the vocal melody from The Kinks' 'Waterloo Su... more info

Stereogum — Okkervil River's Will Sheff underwent an emergency tracheotomy when he was barely even a toddler. I know this because he just released a song about it. That must have been ridiculously scary for Sheff's folks, particularly in light of this key lyric:... more info

Stereogum — Later this month, Okkervil River, Will Sheff's long-running literate indie rock project, will release the new album In The Rainbow Rain. One of its early singles is "Don't Move Back To LA," a song that lists out a few different reasons why you should... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — There's also a 'Don't Move Back To LA' billboard up in Brooklyn and you can win a copy of Okkervil River's new LP by taking a pic with it. Continue reading… more info