JamBase — Watch Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile and their band The Sea Lice perform a Pitchfork Live set in Malibu, California. more info

Chicago Tribune — The setting was solemn, even breathtaking – the high ceiling and stained glass windows of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on the University of Chicago campus. But the performers couldn’t have been more casual, even downright shaggy. Courtney Barnett ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Signature recommended literary horror fiction. Stereogum profiled singer-songwriter Julien Baker. Biographer Ron Chernow talked books and reading with the New York Times. Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett visited The Current for an interview and live in... more info

Obscure Sound — Grey Fields is a new act whose eponymous album provides both richly haunting atmospheres and entrancing melodies, not too distant from the work of Kurt Vile. Several tracks stand out strongly, especially “Nothing Needs to Be Right”, which chugs o... more info

Chicago Tribune — The Kurt Vile-Courtney Barnett collaboration — which has produced a fine album, “Lotta Sea Lice” (Matador), and now a national tour —was meant to be, long before the two indie-rock guitarists and songwriters really got to know each other. Vil... more info

Nialler9 — With so many releases flying at you, here are recommended vetted listens from Nialler9 for you this week, as collated in the Nialler9 New Releases Spotify playlist, updated weekly. 1. King Krule – The Ooz Archy Marshall’s guttural vowel-swa... more info

Stereogum — Today William Patrick Corgan stopped by the Billboard Music offices to play some songs from his new album, out today, and answer my questions about his cats. Unfortunately for Billy William, there are just so many promising new albums to stream today... more info

DrownedInSound — The sound of two good mates having a bloody good time more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Beck's Colors, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile's Lotta Sea Lice, The Rural Alberta Advantage's The Wild, St. Vincent's MASSEDUCTION, and Stars' There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light are the new albums I can highly recommend this week. Archival... more info

Stereogum — The long-running Adult Swim show Squidbillies has a proud history of getting big-name artists to record versions of its theme song; in recent years, people like Father John Misty, Neko Case, and Kurt Vile have done it. With the show's eleventh season... more info