Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - A is for "Ain't Misbehavin'", a jazz classic partly written by a Madagascan royal; G is for "Greenville", a Lucinda Williams country putdown redolent of 20th-century Russian Acmeist poetry. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Jason Isbell, "Something More Than Free" (Southeastern Records). Amid the digitization of our musical past and present, it's easy enough to find honest rural voices. Browse, drag, drop and within moments the collected work of Townes Van Zandt, Lynyrd... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako The free Celebrate Brooklyn! shows in Prospect Park continued last night (6/25) with alt-country veteran Lucinda Williams. Lucinda's got records dating back over thirty years, and she gave us some classics, but she's also stil... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Desaparecidos @ Webster Hall, 2013 (more by Tracy Alison) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Desaparecidos, The So So Glos @ Shea Stadium Conor Oberst put out his... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton features the singer-songwriters lyrics put to music and sung by Sharon Van Etten, Lucinda Williams, Larkin Grimm, and others. Thee Oh Sees' Mutilator Defeated at Last and Zhala's self-titled album ... more info

Stereogum — Marlon Rabenreither was a painter before he succumbed to life as a musician, first as a dream-pop psycher and now as a full-on woozy Americana singer-songwriter. When Rabenreither was initially trying his Gold Star moniker and country songwriting on ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Literary Hub, an expansive new online literary magazine, launched today. Read their interview with Lydia Davis. The New York Times also interviewed Davis. The compilation Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton features Lucinda Williams,... more info

Stereogum — In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the New York folk singer Karen Dalton released a couple of albums of spindly, meditative folk-blues before disappearing into obscurity. She died in 1993, and years after her death, people started to rediscover her... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Swearin' As discussed, Waxhatchee signed to Merge for her third full length which will be out in April. There's still no single released from that, but yesterday (1/4) on main member Katie Crutchfield's 26th birthday, she... more info

Stereogum — Liz Phair is the person responsible for Exile In Guyville and Whip-Smart, two of the point-blank greatest albums in indie rock history, but she’s been quiet in recent years. The forthcoming Amazon holiday playlist All Is Bright features Christmas s... more info