Colin Meloy

plus Peter Bjorn and John, John Cameron Mitchell, Big Freedia, John Vanderslice, Sofi Tukker, Half Waif, A-Trak, Bonobo, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Plus: Charli XCX, Year of the Knife, Fat Tony, Mal Blum, Craig Wedren, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Carl Newman of The New Pornographers, Jennifer O’Connor, Craig Wedren, The Pastels, Mercury Rev and Modern Nature are among other musicians who have paid tribute to the late Mazzy Star co-founder.

Plus: more tributes to Gill from Blur’s Graham Coxon, Greg Dulli, The Futureheads, REM’s MIke Mills, Colin Meloy, Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate, Geoff Rickly and more.

Tributes have been pouring in since the very sad news broke that gifted songwriter and cult artist Daniel Johnston died.

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie, Laura Jane Grace, Jeff Tweedy, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Sharon Van Etten, Fred Armisen and others also read chapters from Michael Azerrad’s indispensable 2001 chronicle, which is getting its first audiobook edition.

Pete Shelley, co-founder and lead singer of groundbreaking UK punk band Buzzcocks, sadly passed away at the age of 63, and the music world (and beyond) have taken to social media to pay tribute.

Jeff is also livestreaming a Chicago concert this Saturday (12/1).

We lost one of the all-time great voices in music today and the world has been paying tribute to Aretha Franklin since learning the sad news…

In response to Amazon’s mistake, The Decemberists frontman said ”That’s actually a pretty classic record. DO NOT RETURN.”