Stereogum — The 7-Inches For Planned Parenthood compilation is a series of 7-inch records and digital downloads to benefit Planned Parenthood. The collection features brand-new songs from Foo Fighters, Sleater-Kinney, Feist, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, and ... more info

Stereogum — Portland-based Strange Ranger is a welcome force for fans of late '90s/early '00s sad, slow indie rock. Last month, they premiered two singles off their upcoming sophomore album, Daymoon, that substantiated any comparisons made of them to sad-indie p... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2003 was in some ways the year everything we knew about pop splintered - Phil Spector's arrest, Michael Jackson's post-Martin Bashir arrest, Britney being kissed by and then duetting with Madonna with the precipice starting to hove into view.... more info

Stereogum — The late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith is a commonly mythologized musician due in part to his vulnerable and melancholic catalogue as well as his grim death. On her latest single, "Out There," recent Band To Watch Lomelda sings about a fictional ru... more info

Stereogum — Jessica Lea Mayfield's 2015 album was a collaboration between herself and Seth Avett of the folk-rock outfit the Avett Brothers. The two covered Elliott Smith, and their collection included classics like "Ballad Of Big Nothing" and "Between The Bars.... more info

Stereogum — We were first introduced to Angelo De Augustine through his 2014 debut Spirals Of Silence , a hushed, haunting collection of lo-fi folk murmurs recalling Elliot Smith by way of Sufjan Stevens. Now Augustine's gone and signed with Sufjan's Asthmatic ... more info

Stereogum — No. 2's 2002 album What Does Good Luck Bring? is getting reissued later this month, and the band's Neil Gust -- who started Heatmiser with Elliott Smith -- is including a demo of a song called "Who's Behind The Door?" that Smith recorded in his Los A... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Times Literary Supplement interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin. Stereogum reconsidered LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver album 10 years after its release. Granta shared an excerpt from Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West. All Songs Considered reconsidered El... more info

Consequence of Sound — Featuring several unreleased tracks, rarities, and live recordings. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Hurray for the Riff Raff's The Navigator is one of the year's finest albums. I can also recommend Laura Marling's Semper Femina and Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. A remastered and expanded edition of Elliott Smith's Either/Or is also... more info