Stereogum — In presenting her first album since 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow , Sharon Van Etten took an unusual approach. She released two singles before announcing the album, “Porta” and “Used To It,” but neither one is on the tracklist. Instead, the... more info

JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, Kikagaku Moyo, Graham Nash, Belle & Sebastian and Warpaint. more info

Nialler9 — The best new albums and EPs this week. more info

Stereogum — The Australian musician Tanya Batt releases music under the name BATTS, and she recruited Sharon Van Etten to collaborate on a new single called “Blue.” BATTS previously toured with Van Etten in Australia in 2019. “I got to meet Tanya before... more info

Nialler9 — Having already been announced for a Dublin gig this June already this year, Sharon Van Etten has been announced for a show at the Cork Opera House the next night, June 23rd as part of the Midsummer Festival, and presented by Foggy Notions. The show a... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Akwaeke Emezi discussed their new poetry collection with Shondaland. Pitchfork profiled Sharon Van Etten. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand April's best eBook..... more info

Tuneage — musicforants:Here’s the albums & songs that I loved the most in 2021. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs of 2021 playlist (100 tracks) via Spotify or Apple Music.FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 202101. The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore02. ... more info

Tuneage — musicforants: Here’s the albums & songs that I heard and loved in 2019 and that I hope to be listening to for years to come. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs of 2019 playlist (75 tracks). Favorite Albums of 2019 01. Vampire Weekend - Fat... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Time to round off both this extended feature and this misbegotten year the way we've treated all the decade's, and previous four decade's, music - by picking out forty great tracks and putting them in the order they mix together best in. ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info