Brooklyn Vegan — Jack Ladder & Sharon Van Etten (via Jack's Instagram) Australia's Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders just brought their tour to NYC for shows at Baby's on 12/1 and Mercury Lounge last night (12/2). At last night's show, Sharon Van Etten,... more info

Stereogum — California Sunday Magazine and Mailchimps’ Q&A series “The Thread” has been going all year, facilitating conversations between artists like Ben Gibbard & Mark Kozelek, Father John Misty & John C. Reilly, and Bethany Cosentino & Molly Ringwald. ... more info

Stereogum — Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders released their fourth album Playmates back in February, and it included not one, but two Sharon Van Etten collaborations. Now the Australian band, which includes Kirin J Callinan, has recorded a cover of Dire Straits’... more info

Stereogum — Cross Record specialize in creeping rock songs that blow in and out like storms, as if Sharon Van Etten and Swans started a post-rock band. Lead singer and songwriter Emily Cross haunts each track with understated whispers that blend personal trauma ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Dulli w/ Afghan Whigs @ Bowery Ballroom, 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs has announced a solo tour for early 2016. He'll play Europe before going on a run of dates in the US,... more info

Stereogum — To announce his upcoming European and North American tour, Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli put out a cover of Sharon Van Etten’s “A Crime” from her 2010 record epic. The track features vocals from singer-songwriter and longtim... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: The Flaming Lips at Levitation 2015 (more by Tim Griffin) Last month, Sharon Van Etten released her cover of "Teen Angel" from the upcoming Donovan tribute album, Gazing With Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan. Rock the... more info

Stereogum — Next week, Rock The Cause Records will release Gazing With Tranquility, a benefit album that serves as an extended tribute to ’60s folk-pop star Donovan, who did as much as anyone to bring flower-power imagery into the pop mainstream. We’ve alrea... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Sharon Van Etten at NeilFest - 9/14/15 (photo by U of Music) Though Sharon Van Etten was billed for NYC's Neil Young tribute show NeilFest, she didn't show up on night 1. But fortunately for anyone who... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The 2015 Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Satin Island by Tom McCarthy The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota A Spool of Blue... more info