Brooklyn Vegan — Sharon Van Etten @ the Rock Shop in 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in NYC * RECORD STORE DAY * Fursaxa @ The Stone * Meg Baird @ The Stone * The Four Bags @ Barbes * Howard Fishman... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Little Scream @ a BV Day Party @ SXSW (more by Amanda Hatfield) TV on the Radio's (new album and) Brooklyn show date has arrived, and though they're not listing any opener, I think there might be a surprise. Not... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Ryan Barkan Megafaun @ Bowery Ballroom The Mountain Goats and Megafaun played their third of three Bowery Ballroom shows in a row on Wednesday, 3/30. NYC Taper has recordings (and the setlists) of the Mountain Goats' set from... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — A weekly Pop & Hiss look at some of the weekend's top shows. A weekly Pop & Hiss look at some of the weekend's top shows. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Friday Oh Land @ The Music Box. A shame that Denmark's Oh Land (real name: Nanna Øland Fabricius) is confined to an opening slot on the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark reunion tour, as the relative unknown artist on these... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Up on the Sun interviews singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. UOTS: Nobody really records albums that go platinum anymore because of the popularity of digital downloading. Artists don't get to celebrate their accomplishments of record sales or downloa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Chris Gersbeck !!! @ the BrooklynVegan/MFM Day Party Saturday By the time Saturday rolled around in Austin, I was admittedly starting to tire of the massive crowd that had been occupying 6th Street since I arrived... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Timothy Griffin Evan Voytas Lady Lamb the Beekeeper "When you've got a demure woman on the microphone and she can go from a soulful refrain to a heightened howl in the matter of a minute, you know you're... more info

Chicago Tribune — Plenty to discover at the annual fest, not all of it good for the music industry— "This is our last show," singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten said with a mixture of exultation and exhaustion during her final set at the South by Southwest Music Con... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield ""I write from a painful place," [Sharon Van Etten] recently told SPIN of the inspiration behind her latest release, the seven-song EP Epic. You can say that again. At the Swan Dive venue, just past midnight,... more info