Stereogum — Surprise! Wye Oak released a new collection of tracks today titled Tween. The band doesn’t consider the album to be LP5 for a single reason: all of the tracks included were written, scrapped, and repurposed in the years between their breakout album... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tushka, aka Phil Moore from Bowerbirds, has just released his self-titled debut album. The 10 songs on the album, delicate, skeletal R&B-influenced glitch-pop, weren't originally intended to be heard by anyone... Continue reading… more info

KEXP Seattle — We love when one of our favorite bands remixes another favorite band, and that’s just what we’ve got with the track below: hear Wye Oak‘s take on “Need A Friend,” a single from EL VY, the collaboration of Matt Berninger of The National and ... more info

Stereogum — Matt Berninger of the National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls released their debut album under the name EL VY last fall. Return To The Moon included a song titled “Need A Friend,” which Wye Oak slowed-down and remixed. Listen to the... more info

Stereogum — Raleigh, NC’s Hopscotch Festival is returning for a seventh year this September, and today they’ve released their characteristically eclectic lineup. The headliners are split among two locations this year — the outdoor stage in Raleigh City Pla... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Colm Toibin on James Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room at Prospect. Baldwin, in this novel, made clear that he could work wonders with the light and shade of intimacy, that he could move easily and effortlessly into a whispered prose, into... more info

Stereogum — Last night, the great Baltimore indie duo Wye Oak played at Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a local institution, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra playing behind them. For a band who were playing local warehouse spaces and restaurants just... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Twenty-year-old Memphis singer/songwriter Julien Baker fronts the bands Forrister and The Star Killers, and as of last week she's got a solo record out in the world called Sprained Ankle. It's on 6131 Records, which is mostly... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: The National at Barclays Center in 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Although The National haven't released an album since 2013's Trouble Will Find Me, they've had a very busy two years. They premiered their documentary, Mistaken for Stra... more info

Stereogum — Austin rockers Shearwater have announced the release of a new album called Jet Plane And Oxbow, the follow-up to 2012’s Animal Joy and 2013’s covers comp Fellow Travelers. It features contributions from composer Brian Reitzell (best known for his... more info