Stereogum — Mark Kozelek released the covers compilation Like Rats in 2013, and among the songs included was a re-working of Yes’ 1978 ballad “Onward.” Chris Squire, Yes’ bassist and backing vocalist, passed away at the age of 67 on Sunday after being di... more info

Stereogum — California Sunday Magazine’s project The Thread has facilitated email conversations between Bethany Cosentino and Molly Ringwald, Al Yankovic and Scott Aukerman, and Ben Gibbard and Mark Kozelek, among many others so far. Their latest thread is bet... more info

Stereogum — As previously reported, Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek hit some drastic new low onstage in London earlier this week, improvising a song about a specific female journalist who’d interviewed him via interview. He named the woman from the stage, singin... more info

Stereogum — Mark Kozelek has cultivated a reputation for throwing withering nastiness into his stage banter, but he took it to a new level last night in London. Playing the Barbican on the same night as his spotty new album Universal Themes hit the internet, the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mark Kozelek is releasing the new Sun Kil Moon album, Universal Themes, this week (6/2) via his own Caldo Verde Records, and now he's streaming it in full at his website. As you might imagine, it's as wordy and... more info

Stereogum — In addition to recording as Sun Kil Moon and previously fronting Red House Painters, Mark Kozelek has done some acting in his day. He has a role in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new movie Youth, which was being translated as The Early Years a... more info

Stereogum — We had this list laid out last night, hours before Mark Kozelek dropped a new track off the upcoming Sun Kil Moon record, Universal Themes. No surprise: It was — and is — a very good song. So we had to reassess and reorganize. Sharon Van Etten’... more info

Stereogum — Sun Kil Moon’s Benji followup is fast approaching — Universal Themes comes out 6/2, and we’ve already heard three tracks from it: “The Possum,” “Cry Me A River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues,” and “Ali/Spink 2.” Now here’s a fou... more info

Stereogum — Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters mastermind Mark Kozelek makes gentle, delicate, sensitive music that has perhaps counterintuitively found a devoted fanbase among metalheads. As I mentioned in an essay I wrote last year, my own obsession with Kozelek�... more info

Stereogum — Sun Kil Moon announced Benji follow-up Universal Themes last month, and although the album contains the previously released “The Possum” and “Cry Me A River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues,” we haven’t heard any actual new music until now.... more info