Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Bobby Bare Jr. (Guided By Voices, Young Criminals Starvation League). You look like a bear, but nobody cares. Read the Yawpers in MAGNET on Bloodshot labelmates Bare, Banditos, Lydia Loveless, Cory Branan, Robbie Fulks, Scott H. Biram,... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League released From The End Of Your Leash. Country stars play Japanese guitars. Read the Yawpers in MAGNET on Bloodshot labelmates Bare, Banditos, Lydia Loveless, Cory Branan, Robbi... more info

Chicago Tribune — Chance the Rapper has grabbed many of the headlines, but he's not the only Chicago performer up for a Grammy Sunday. From Robbie Fulks to Lalah Hathaway, the Tribune has rounded up Chicago-area names to know for the 59th Grammy Awards, scheduled to ... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Fulks has been nominated for two Grammys — best folk album, "Upland Stories," and best American roots song, "Alabama at Night." more info

Chicago Tribune — We have David Nagler's mother and her gift of poetry to thank for a new album that features Jeff Tweedy, Sally Timms, Robbie Fulks, Jon Langford, Daniel Knox and other Chicago all-stars singing the tunes Nagler made out of a selection of Carl Sandbur... more info

Rolling Stone — With his new album Upland Stories, Robbie Fulks furthers his reputation as one of the most observant and wry songwriters of the past two decades. Released in April, the record showcases Fulks' literary mind, one shaped just as much by authors as by s... more info

Chicago Tribune — Robbie Fulks isn't sure if there's a growing appetite for the kind of music he makes on his beautiful new record, "Upland Stories": closely observed, richly melodic songs about hard, occasionally hopeful country life, punctuated by the twang of pedal... more info

Chicago Tribune — Bob Mould, Richard Thompson and Shara Worden’s My Brightest Diamond are among the headliners for this summer's Downtown Sound, Millennium Park’s annual free concert series. more info