Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Maxwell and Nas shows Barclays Center and Prudential Center go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Drive-By Truckers show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon. Tickets for DIIV... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — ">Tickets for the Migos show at Irving Plaza go on Live Nation/Music Geeks presale today at 10 AM (passwords = BELLS and MUSICGEEKS). Tickets for the Fetty Wap ">show at Irving Plaza go on Live Nation/Ticketmaster presale today at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Drive-By Truckers at The Paramount in 2014 (more by Greg Cristman) Alt-country band Drive-By Truckers recently released a live record, the triple-disc It's Great to Be Alive!, and will soon start work on their next LP. They're also going... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Spoon's remastered and expanded edition of Gimme Fiction is the week's standout release, along with box sets from Amy Winehouse, Drive-By Truckers, Mark Lanegan, and Miles Davis. Grimes' Art Angels and Ryan Adams: 1989 are both available on vinyl.... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Born just outside the storied music crucible of Muscle Shoals, Ala., the 36-year-old Jason Isbell has been regarded as a songwriter's songwriter since gaining wide acclaim with Southern rock band the Drive-By Truckers. Since leaving the band in 2007,... more info

Stereogum — Jason Isbell, who just released his beautiful new album Something More Than Free, was profiled on today’s episode of CBS Sunday Morning. In the segment, Isbell opens up about his recent breakthrough and the dark backstory to that success — drinki... more info

Stereogum — Former Drive-By Truckers member Jason Isbell will release his follow-up to 2013’s massively successful Southeastern next week, and today the beautiful thing is streaming in full. Something More Than Free is a heavy record that projects the kind of ... more info

Stereogum — Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood did the South proud today. Hood penned an op-ed for The New York Times about the Confederate Flag, a racist symbol of Southern insurrection during the Civil War that has stubbornly persisted as a regional emb... more info

Stereogum — Jason Isbell has the best backstory of any country musician on the make right now. The former guitarist for Athens’ sweethearts Drive-By Truckers split from the group, got sober, and found country-avant producer Dave Cobb. Together, they polished I... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — If you missed out on the BV presale, you can get tickets for the TV on the Radio show at Terminal 5, starting today at noon. Tickets for the Alabama Shakes and Drive-By Truckers show at Forest Hills Stadium... more info