KEXP Seattle — Steve Fisk, not unlike Jack Endino, is a figure in the Seattle rock universe who has had an enormous influence on the sounds coming out of this city, despite not being a household name to those who don’t often peruse album credits. As a producer an... more info

Consequence of Sound — Members of Screaming Trees, Velvet Revolver, and The Missionary Position deliver an unexpected sound. more info

USA Today Music — Seattle band features former members of Guns N' Roses, Screaming Trees. more info

411 Mania — And former Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin... more info

DrownedInSound — This week sees the release of a glorious new Tim Hardin tribute album Reason To Believe, collecting specially recorded cover versions from the likes of Screaming Trees legend Mark Lanegan, Smoke Fairies, Hannah Peel, Okkervil River and many more. We... more info

Discobelle.net — Telephoned video for their cover of the Screaming Trees track “Nearly Lost You”. They recently dropped an EP of outstanding covers from the 90s movie Singles soundtrack over repurposed Ryan Hemsworth beats, download it via Soundcloud below. more info

Guardian Music — Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMark Lanegan has had an almost textbook outlaw passage to the black heart of rock'n'roll: heroin and crack addiction, homelessness, rehab and imprisonment and a road accident that almost killed him at the age of 20. Then,... more info

Stereogum — Name: Mark Lanegan Progress Report: The songwriter talks about Blues Funeral, his first solo album in nearly 8 years. It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his music that Mark Lanegan is a man of relatively few words. Whether it be wi... more info

Guardian Music — (4AD)The first Mark Lanegan Band album since 2004 (he's been busy with Soulsavers, the Gutter Twins and Isobel Campbell) contains no great shocks: for the most part, this is bluesy, lugubrious, modernish rock, elevated by Lanegan's remarkable gravel-... more info

Stereogum — The former Screaming Trees frontman and great whiskey-dipped American growler Mark Lanegan will release the new solo album Blues Funeral early next year, and the lead single and opening track “The Gravedigger’s Song” is a pounding, apocalyptic ... more info