Music News Net — We're quite pleased to offer up Son Volt’s new album, Honky Tonk. It's the seventh studio release from Jay Farrar and company, the more rootsy offshoot from the Uncle Tupelo split. On Honky Tonk, though, they go further in search... more info

Stereogum — There’s quite a collection of Americana big dogs at work on this track: Former Uncle Tupelo co-leader and current Son Volt frontman Ja Farrar, My Morning Jacket main man Yim Yames (or, as most of us still know him, Jim James), Centro-matic leader W... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wilco at Sasquatch (more by Josh Darr) The Autumn Defense (John Stirratt and Pat Sansone of Wilco) have announced a NYC show before they play WIlco's Solid Sound Festival later this month. The band will play The Living Room on... more info

Twangville — Susan James has gained a lot of well known fans over the last few years. Bob Weir and Rob Wassrerman heard her, and asked her to open for Ratdog. She has also opened for for Son Volt, Rufus Wainright, Richard Thompson and Lindsey Buckingham among oth... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Eclectic downloads said... The Mood Indicator calls it a day as of the 30th of November 2010. Drop by for final posts full of eclectic tunes. http://www.themoodindicator.com zerode said... Song of the Day: Johnny Cash, "A Boy Named Sue" Brief person... more info

Twangville — Much noise has been made over the past decade as we have seen bands that reveled in roots-rock rowdiness polish their tones a bit and venture into the waters of pop and even experimental sounds. Of course, for every Wilco, there’s a band like Son V... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — Son Volt's Jay Farrar has scheduled a few solo headlining and festival dates for June. Two of those will take place in the NYC-area. On June 4th he hits Maxwell's in Hoboken (on sale now). June 5th is Bowery... more info

Twangville — The late 1990’s may have been the golden era of alt. country. We had Son Volt’s Trace and Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Steve Earle was having a post prison career renaissance, the Old 97’s were signing with a major label, ... more info

Rolling Stone — If you imagine a soundtrack for 1950s-60s beat writer Jack Kerouac, it’s surely bebop, not country-folk. But that didn’t stop Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar from collaborating on One Fast Move or I’m Gone, ... more info