Wesley Stace

Plus: Drugdealer, Corrosion of Conformity / Crowbar, Orville Peck, Rich the Kid, Cayetana, Holy Ghost!, Leif Vollebekk, and more tickets on sale.

Plus: Superorganism, Viagra Boys, Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders, Pure Bathing Culture opening for Lucius, and more tour-related news.

Anais Mitchell’s great 2010 folk opera Hadestown (which features Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, The Low Anthem‘s Ben Knox Miller, and the Haden Triplets) already got a stage adaptation for the New York Theatre Workshop in 2015/2016 and now it’s coming to Broadway in 2019…

Cross will also be at Boston Calling and Chicago’s The Onion Comedy Fest.

The paperback edition of Danielle’s Universal Harvester is just out. Meanwhile this week’s edition of the “I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats” podcast features The Music Tapes’ Julian Koster covering “Jeff Davis Country Blues”

It’s from a re-imagined version of Tracy Bonham’s 1996 debut album, which also has new collaborations with Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Belly, The Breeders), Kathryn Calder (The New Pornographers), Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo), and more.

Wesley Stace has announced the lineups for the next three editions of his “Cabinet of Wonders” music/comedy/literature series at NYC”s City Winery. Bridget St. John will be performing the songs of Kevin Ayers with Ayers’ daughter Gaylen at the November edition.

Fastball and Wesley Stace also both have new albums out and streaming. Wesley recorded his with The Jayhawks as his backing band.