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Okkervil River, Joyce Manor, Will Sheff, Lady Lamb & more on new Valentines Day comps (listen)

Lady Lamb, Joyce Manor, Ladyhawke, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, Lucero’s Ben Nichols, Xenia Rubinos, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Tacocat, Surfer Blood, Nikki Lane and many more have contributed to two new Valentines Day playlists for Amazon Music…

Everything But the Girl's Ben Watt shares his Top 50 Songs of 2016 playlist

Ben’s list includes tracks by Karl Blau, Whitney, Solange, Angel Olsen, Jim James, Weyes Blood, Half Waif, Alex Cameron, Anderson .Paak, Quilt, Ryley Walker and more.

Five Notable Releases of the Week (11/4)

We’re just days away from Election Day, and that surely impacted some of today’s new albums…

American Wrestlers streaming 2 tracks off 'Goodbye Terrible Youth,' touring

Now a full band, American Wrestlers will release their second album, Goodbye Terrible Youth, on November 4 via Fat Possum. So far they’ve released two songs, “Give Up” and “Amazing Grace,” which are both bigger-sounding records that take advantage of the band’s new lineup and their higher-quality production…

Tomorrow Never Knows 2016 schedule (with Julien Baker, The Go! Team, METZ, Torres, Bully, Lady Lamb, Tobacco & more)

The annual multi-venue Chicago festival Tomorrow Never Knows returns this year from January 13-17, and as usual there’s plenty of great stuff …

American Wrestlers (LP on Fat Possum out now -- upcoming tour dates, song streams)

American Wrestlers is the project of Gary McClure, who released his self-titled album on Fat Possum earlier this year. It’s probably safe to call it “bedroom pop” being that Gary recorded the whole thing himself with a drum machine, and came out with a scrappy lo-fi version of what a mid-2000s indie pop album sounds l…

Aaron Taos readies debut EP, shares "Simple & Sober" video, playing release show

Originally from New Haven, CT but now based in Brooklyn, songwriter Aaron Taos has a distinctive sound, often just his guitar and voice that is more compelling than that might at first sound…

Merchandise, GABI, Bully, Light Asylum, Honduras and more playing free daytime Northside shows at UO Live Stage

Florida post-punks Merchandise were just in NYC for two shows this past Saturday, and now they’re planning on swinging back around for another one this Saturday (6/…

What's going on Friday? (Bob Dylan, DFA1979, Quintron, College, Rhys Darby, George Clinton, Hooded Fang, #RSDBF)

DFA 1979 at FFF 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Siren Festival Lineup updated again

Two more acts announced for Siren: 1) Be Your Own Pet 2) Nine Black Alps Nine Black Alps are from the UK. Here’s their NME page Be Your Own Pet’s NME page is not as populated…