LargeHeartedBoy — Bonny Doon's Longwave, Cavern of Anti-Matter's Hormone Lemonade, Erika Wennerstrom's Sweet Unknown, Lissie's Castles, and Richmond Fontaine's Don't Skip Out on Me are this week's new albums I can recommend. Guided by Voices' Space Gun and Jack White'... more info

Guardian Music — The American musician and novelist on breaking up his acclaimed band Richmond Fontaine, and how Raymond Carver’s stories opened his eyesWilly Vlautin is an American musician and novelist based in Portland, Oregon. His alt-country band Richmond... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Willy Vlautin once again proves himself one of our finest songwriters on Richmond Fontaine's You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To. Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy's Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties, Boris... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Sylvia Plath's childhood manuscripts. Stream a new Richmond Fontaine song. 83 year-end "best books of 2015" lists were added to the Largehearted Boy master aggregation yesterday (bringing the total number of lists represented to 1,127), including the... more info

Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about the shows ... more info

Nialler9 — Highlights: Crystal Stilts, Azari & III, Richmond Fontaine, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Sert One & Simon Bird, The Redneck Manifesto, Nathan Fake, Charlie Parr. A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times ar... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Independent previews the English translation of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. The Early Buzz 1Q84 was wildly successful on publication in Japan, selling one million copies in just two months. As a result, it's hotly anticipated here, too. The Guardian ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Two of my favorite singer-songwriters have new music available this week, Richmond Fontaine's The High Country (with songs written by the band's frontman, author Willy Vlautin) and Jens Lekman's An Argument With Myself EP. Evangelista's In Animal Ton... more info

DrownedInSound — If you ignore the plotline, there’s plenty of enjoyment to be found in The High Country. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Altsounds — *Richmond Fontaine* debuted the video for *"Lost in the Trees"* today. The song is the first single from the band's forthcoming song-novel concept album, _*The High Country*_, out September 20th on El Cortez Records. You can see the video, directed b... more info