LargeHeartedBoy — The Litro Lab podcast interviewed author Claudia Rankine. NPR Music is streaming the new CHVRCHES album, Open Every Eye. R.I.P., poet C.K. Williams. Stream Ryan Adams' Taylor Swift cover album 1989 at Stereogum. Biographile recommended books on the h... more info

The Independent — It has been quite a year for Taylor Swift: the success of last year’s 1989 has propelled her to an unbelievable level of fame where a simple Tweet can send the world’s media into overdrive. more info

Stereogum — It’s here. After a month-plus of teasing, the unlikely musical event of the century — aka Ryan Adams’ full-length cover album of Taylor Swift’s towering pop statement 1989 — has finally arrived. We’ve already heard “Bad Blood” and a w... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The finalists for the 2015 National Book Award for fiction have been announced: Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family Karen E. Bender, Refund Angela Flournoy, The Turner House Lauren Groff, Fates and... more info

Time — Ryan Adams’ album of 1989 covers will debut Sept. 21, he announced Thursday. After teasing the covers of Taylor Swift’s 2014 album, Adams will release the entire collection in full. He debuted the first track, “Bad Blood,” on Zane Lowe’s Be... more info

E! Online — For over a month, Ryan Adams has been teasing his cover of Taylor Swift's hit 1989 album—and now we finally have a release date!  The 40-year-old singer-songwriter... more info

Perez Hilton — When we heard Ryan Adams was releasing an entire cover album of Taylor Swift's 1989, we were shocked — but in the most delightful way! We obvi can't get enough of the multiplatinum record, so hearing the entire thing through the lens of such a tale... more info

Stereogum — For weeks, Ryan Adams has been teasing us with short clips of his full-length cover album of Taylor Swift’s 1989. Today, he announced that album’s release date (Monday!) and shared the first song we’ve yet heard from it. Zane Lowe debuted Adams... more info

Stereogum — Yeah, we’ve all been waiting interminably for SWISH and Boys Don’t Cry and the umpteen other superstar “surprise” albums, but at least we know when the most anticipated album of the fall is coming out. Ryan Adams announced today that his albu... more info

Stereogum — The two-day Neil Fest benefit concert concluded last night, with a stacked lineup of artists taking the stage at the Bowery Ballroom to pay tribute to Neil Young. Two nights ago, Ryan Adams and Norah Jones covered “Old Man,” and they performed it... more info