Stereogum — Amazon Music will release a pair of playlists entitled Love Me and Love Me Not in time for Valentine's Day, which will include 70 original songs and some covers. The two collections featuring new music by the likes of Hurray For The Riff Raff, Okkerv... more info

New York Times — Will Sheff, the frontman of the band Okkervil River, writes of the power of a mentor. more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus, the band announces its first-ever shows as a trio. more info

Stereogum — Okkervil River released their album Away last year, and they've already made videos for its songs "Okkervil River R.I.P.," "The Industry," "Judey On A Street," and "Call Yourself Renee." The band's latest clip is for the song "Mary On A Wave," and ... more info

Music For Ants — I previously shared my top albums and music videos lists and now it’s time to for my 50 favorite tracks from 2016, presented here in highly unscientific, mostly arbitrary list form. As always, there’s a one song per artist rule to bette... more info

Music For Ants — I’ll spare you the usual 2016 end-of-year list write-up about how it’s been a bad year but at least the music was good. For me personally, there’s been some highs and lows, but mostly this year has been busy and tiring, which is ... more info

KEXP Seattle — On Away, his eighth album with Okkervil River, Will Sheff winds back to the spacious sounds of his early records while visiting more mature topics of death, dissolution and rebirth. During his latest visit to KEXP, the Austin-based troubadour brings ... more info

Stereogum — The great Leonard Cohen passed away a little over a week ago, continuing an unrelentingly shitty 2016. Since his death there has rightly been a heartening outpour of reverence for him. Lana Del Rey, Coldplay, Okkervil River, SNL, Carseat Headrest, Ja... more info

Consequence of Sound — Frontman Will Sheff calls Cohen "a songwriting hero." more info

Stereogum — Leonard Cohen passed away this week. Lana Del Rey and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have shared tributes to the late legend, and Okkervil River, Coldplay, and even SNL’s Kate McKinnon have paid their respects by covering some of his songs.... more info