Stereogum — As previously reported, Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek hit some drastic new low onstage in London earlier this week, improvising a song about a specific female journalist who’d interviewed him via interview. He named the woman from the stage, singin... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Algiers' self-titled album, Dawes' All Your Favorite Bands, Eternal Summers' Gold and Stone, SOAK's Before We Forgot How To Dream, and Sun Kil Moon's Universal Themes are all new albums I can recommend this week. Other notable new releases... more info

Stereogum — Mark Kozelek has cultivated a reputation for throwing withering nastiness into his stage banter, but he took it to a new level last night in London. Playing the Barbican on the same night as his spotty new album Universal Themes hit the internet, the... more info

Stereogum — There’s an old In Living Color sketch about Tracy Chapman, from the time that In Living Color was still on and still vital and Tracy Chapman was famous enough to be a skit-target. Chapman gets off the phone with a record-label guy, insisting that y... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mark Kozelek is releasing the new Sun Kil Moon album, Universal Themes, this week (6/2) via his own Caldo Verde Records, and now he's streaming it in full at his website. As you might imagine, it's as wordy and... more info

Stereogum — In addition to recording as Sun Kil Moon and previously fronting Red House Painters, Mark Kozelek has done some acting in his day. He has a role in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new movie Youth, which was being translated as The Early Years a... more info

Stereogum — We had this list laid out last night, hours before Mark Kozelek dropped a new track off the upcoming Sun Kil Moon record, Universal Themes. No surprise: It was — and is — a very good song. So we had to reassess and reorganize. Sharon Van Etten’... more info

Stereogum — Sun Kil Moon’s Benji followup is fast approaching — Universal Themes comes out 6/2, and we’ve already heard three tracks from it: “The Possum,” “Cry Me A River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues,” and “Ali/Spink 2.” Now here’s a fou... more info

Stereogum — At last year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, Run The Jewels found themselves playing at the same time as Sun Kil Moon. And to get ahead of anything like the War On Drugs beef, the duo led the crowd in a chant of “Suck my dick, Sun Kil Moon.” Even as they w... more info

Nialler9 — The National Concert Hall have revealed their This Must Be the Place series of concerts for this August which features Marc Almond, Sun Kil Moon and Keaton Henson. Tickets for below are on sale Friday at 10am. 1 August, 8pm – Marc Almond performs ... more info