Magnet Magazine — MAGNET’s Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year 1) Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin Symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)2) Adeem The Artist Anniversary (Four Quarters)3) Agalisiga Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (Horton)4) Malin Lewis Halocli... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 80th birthday Kinky Friedman. R.I.P. The last of the Jewish cowboys. Read the Kinkster in MAGNET on Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon and more: The post Happy 80th Birthday Kinky Friedman, R.I.P. appe... more info

Stereogum — “Lost Cause” is one of the saddest, prettiest, altogether greatest songs of all time. The centerpiece of Beck’s majestically depressed 2002 opus Sea Change never fails to astonish me, and few recordings in this world sound more like a clou... more info

Stereogum — Willie Nelson is getting ready to release 153rd album, Last Leaf On The Tree . On Friday (Oct. 11), the 91-year-old songwriting legend joined Chris Stapleton during the country musician’s Austin City Limits set for two songs. more info

Stereogum — Willie Nelson — who, it’s worth reiterating, is 91 fucking years old — will share his 153rd album Last Leaf On The Tree this November. He’s put out a whole lot of original music over the years, and he’s switching it up on this album wi... more info

Stereogum — That Bob Dylan, always with the zany bits. A few days back, Dylan broke out “All Along The Watchtower,” his most played song ever, for the first time since 2018 — apparently because John Mellencamp, who performs immediately before Dylan at W... more info

Antimusic Rock — The Oak Ridge Boys are excited to announce their new album, Mama's Boys from Lightning Rod/Thirty Tigers more info

Antimusic Rock — Concert specials from the late country music legend Toby Keith, as well as Dierks Bentley, Travis Tritt, Willie Nelson and Zac Brown Band are coming to AXS TV more info

Stereogum — Former President Jimmy Carter has all kinds of music-world connections. He’s a distant relation of country music’s Carter Family, and he’s historically been close with people like Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and the Allman Brothers. At least t... more info

New York Post — They'll be joined by John Cougar Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Mavis Staples and more. more info